Principal Site Reliability Engineer
$175,500–$235,400 year
On-siteOrlando, Florida, United States or Glendale, California, United States
Job Summary
Champion and scale a DevOps culture across Commerce, Licensing, Publishing, and Consumer Production engineering teams while mentoring engineers on observability practices to reduce MTTR and improve application stability. Lead the design, build, and support of product platforms by driving automation of application security and observability pipelines, instrumenting telemetry for proactive monitoring, and reinforcing best practices to protect company and customer data. Establish systems administration requirements on Linux and Windows platforms across AWS, Azure, and GCP, ensuring operational excellence, security, performance, and capacity management. Engage in estimation and planning across the organization to voice technical recommendations. This role supports Ecommerce, Consumer Products, and Licensing platforms within Disney Experiences, leveraging expertise in multi-cloud environments and industry-leading observability strategies.
Required Qualifications
- Minimum 10 years of related work experience
- Expertise in defining and implementing industry-leading observability strategies across diverse and highly complex distributed systems
- Comprehensive knowledge and hands-on experience with advanced continuous integration tools like Gitlab, AWS CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, CodePipeline, and Azure DevOps
- Mastery in architecting and managing highly available, scalable, and automated infrastructure using configuration management and orchestration tools such as Terraform, Cloud Formation, Ansible, and Chef
- Expert in using AI to optimize system reliability through advanced analytics and prescriptive recommendations
- Excellent communication and leadership abilities
- A visionary who motivates teams to excel and fosters creativity
- An advocate for a diverse and inclusive culture
- Authority in AWS, Azure, GCP, Harness, Kubernetes, Terraform, and observability tooling
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience
Desired Qualifications
- Experience with Harness CI/CD pipelines and DevOps automation tooling
- Hands-on expertise across multi-cloud environments including AWS, Azure, and GCP
- Experience supporting large-scale ecommerce or consumer-facing platforms
- Familiarity with observability platforms such as Datadog, New Relic, or Dynatrace
- Demonstrated success leading large project efforts across cross-functional engineering teams
- Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field
- Cloud certifications such as AWS Solutions Architect, Azure Administrator, or GCP Professional Cloud Architect
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