Principal Systems Engineer

Walt Disney • New York, NY

80d • $152,200 - $204,100

About The Position

The individual in this position will join the Engineering Services Infrastructure team in an exciting, fast paced environment, supporting, securing, and managing our storage solutions through a variety of technologies. We leverage several storage platforms. Primary Technologies are: Block, File, and Object storage, SAN attached storage, and other enterprise level solutions covering on-premise and cloud. This role will apply architecture best practices to establish, review and maintain standards for storage across the enterprise. The individual will ensure that technologies chosen are consistent with the architecture blueprints and long term strategies of the Walt Disney company. Finally, this role is charged with building and communicating to the organization the strategic blueprints, and reference architectures for the Live, VOD, and storage domains. The individual must have a broad knowledge of Storage as a Service and cloud technologies such as AWS, Azure and GCP. Working with other team members they will develop project strategy, blueprints, and engage vendors to select and implement solutions.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in relevant field of study
• 10+ years of relevant experience
• Demonstrated expertise in scripting using Perl, Bash, Shell or equivalent
• Possesses strong analytical and technical skills
• Excellent understanding of storage systems
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to discuss highly technical concepts to a variety of audiences
• Industry expert understanding of software solutions for content creation, manipulation, encoding/transcoding and distribution
• Thorough knowledge of the syntax, capabilities, and limitations of the Linux operating systems

Nice To Haves

• Strong commitment to customer service and service enablement
• Demonstrates ability to deliver detailed technical documentation
• Experience working within an Agile Scrum methodology
• Knowledge of process management, process streamlining, and process organization tools
• Fundamental understanding of ITIL best practices
• Expert knowledge of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
• Expert knowledge in working and supporting storage systems
• Expert scripting and automation skills (e.g., PowerShell, vbscript, Python, UNIX shell, etc.)
• Strong problem solving and troubleshooting skills

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and architecture of complex systems
• Define system requirements and specifications based on business goals and decisions
• Translate enterprise business strategy into domain blueprints and roadmaps
• Create high-level architecture and detailed designs
• Apply deep technical knowledge for the storage domains in a project or Enterprise context
• Ensure that consistent practices are followed, reference architectures are developed and maintained
• Develop, maintain and apply standards for projects and programs
• Complete discovery activities for Storage solutions and recommend specific implementations
• Perform system performance trend analysis as required
• Work with cross-functional teams, collaborating with engineers and other stakeholders
• Manage the development, implementation and administration of operational processes, programs, and systems
• Provide afterhours escalated support as required

Benefits

• Medical, financial, and/or other benefits
• Bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Senior
• Industry: Motion Picture and Sound Recording Industries
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees