Sr. Linux Systems Engineer

Burbank, CA, United States

Job Description

We're looking for passionate engineers who love learning new technologies at a rapid pace. You should be intimately familiar with production systems. Lean, agile, self-sufficient teams is how we operate. We develop. You will be a part of the team that provides production tools and cutting-edge solutions for all of the studios under the Disney umbrella.

Your passion for engineering systems is visible to your team, stakeholders and in everything you and your team delivers. You take engineering for the business seriously, and that will help you make decisions that drive value every day. You are:

A master problem solver. You take deep pride in your work and view each new problem as an opportunity for success; you approach challenges creatively, but methodically.

Comfortable with ambiguity. You face change with a cool head and persevere even if you don't have all the details; you're comfortable moving between projects and facing the uncertain because risk and change motivates you to evolve and innovate.

Technically astute. You rapidly learn new skills, grasping complicated technical information that often leaves others lost whether it's product, industry, or hard tech knowledge, you absorb it quickly and are ready for more.

Goal oriented. You develop and actualize creative vision, mission, and strategy into a cohesive outcome through capable team management, tactical execution, and unrelenting focus on daily progress; you connect production demand and technology strategies to the solutions you deliver

Investigate, analyze, resolve and document hardware and software problems on a wide range of systems on-site and in public cloud for multiple production and post production environments

Design and deploy systems in production timelines with high availability, and clear observability

Author tools, and leverage open source, to automate tasks with an emphasis on reliability and repeatability

Serve as an escalation point to troubleshoot and resolve performance and reliability issues in production environments

Lead and collaborate with engineers to ensure systems are designed to be scalable, and easily operated

Effective at dealing with change: Able to transition in role or handle a significant modification or technology with minimal ramp-up time and with very little guidance

We are a company committed to creating diverse and inclusive environments where people can bring their full, authentic selves to work every day. We are an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer that believes everyone matters. Qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment regardless of their race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, marital status, national origin, ancestry, genetic factors, age, disability, protected veteran status, military or uniformed service member status, or any other status or characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or recruiting process, please send a request to [email protected] .

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Skills and Requirements

Expertise in Linux, MacOS engineering and administration in a professional environment - important; expert Linux - down to the Kernel level

High performance storage solutions (Quantum, Avid, Isilon) -- important

Advanced experience in virtualization and VMware vSphere. - important

Experience with Scripting and Automation (BASH, Python*, etc.) - important

Configuration management solutions and experience managing infrastructure as code: Ansible and/or Terraform) - important

IP networking including performance-based troubleshooting

Data Center Operations, Power Management, Elevations

AWS experience: create instance(VM; storage tiers; how you assign)

This role is on site on the studio lots at least 5 days/week, once the resource is acclimated there is flexibility to be onsite 4 days per week. - Configuration management solutions and experience managing infrastructure as code. (ex: bash, ansible, terraform)

Media File Transport Solutions (e.g. Signiant, Aspera) - big plus

Data center, network, and application architectures

Knowledge in Container Platforms (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift)

Experience with Post Production Software and Tools (e.g. Resolve, Baselight, Avid, Colorfront, etc.) - big plus null

We are a company committed to creating diverse and inclusive environments where people can bring their full, authentic selves to work every day. We are an equal employment opportunity/affirmative action employer that believes everyone matters. Qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ethnicity, religion,sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, marital status, national origin, ancestry, genetic factors, age, disability, protected veteran status, military oruniformed service member status, or any other status or characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations, andordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request to [email protected].