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Senior Systems Engineer

Senior Systems Engineer

CompanyThe Walt Disney Company
LocationNew York, NY, USA
Salary$120300 – $161300
TypeFull-Time
DegreesBachelor’s
Experience LevelSenior

Requirements

  • 5+ years of Linux systems administration experience
  • BS in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent field
  • Strong communication and documentation skills
  • Strong experience with HTTP webserving and content delivery
  • Apache, NGINX, or Varnish webserver applications
  • Other caching solutions within a CDN environmental context
  • Familiarity with complex network topology, including but not limited to Anycast, BGP, high-availability, Forward- and reverse- proxying
  • Comfortable with Infrastructure-as-Code tools such as Ansible, Git, Salt, etc.
  • Proficiency with at least one interpreted (e.g. Bash, Python) or compiled (e.g. Go, Rust) language
  • Solid understanding of web security protocols (TLS, SSL)
  • Previous support for hybrid public/private environments

Responsibilities

  • Architect, deploy and provision content delivery infrastructure
  • Conduct business and operational requirements gathering, provide detailed analysis and prescribe customizable technical solutions that are cost effective, scalable and extensible
  • Lead proof-of-concept initiatives and the development of roadmaps that will enable implementation of new products, features and associated technologies along with more efficient ways to deliver services in response to changing business needs
  • Assist in training and evaluation of technical staff
  • Assist in the development of technology roadmaps and long-range planning to enhance content delivery capabilities
  • Develop and implement service monitoring tools and metrics that will identify and address performance issues and system bottlenecks before they impact content workflows and clients
  • Provide service sustainment, operational and technical support through software/hardware upgrades, service monitoring, troubleshooting and interoperability with 3rd party, vendor supplied solutions and products
  • Engage and collaborate with technical and business stakeholders while providing insight into emerging technologies, architectures and methodologies that meet business objectives
  • Participate in a rotating on-call schedule
  • Collaborate with multiple teams on interconnected deliverables

Preferred Qualifications

  • Strong understanding of virtualization technologies
  • Experience with enterprise grade hardware & storage