Job Description :
Systems Engineers working within the Media Systems and Network Engineering group provide the highest level of performance and availability for the systems, cloud services, networks, storage and applications that they build and support. This level of excellence is necessary to ensure that the time and business-critical demands of The Walt Disney Studios are supported with world-class technology and systems management.
SPECIFIC RESPONSIBILITIES
Design, build and operate scalable systems
Monitor, measure, and tune systems for optimal performance and 24/7 reliability
Investigate, analyze, resolve and document hardware and software problems on a wide range of systems in several data centers
Investigate, analyze, resolve and document software and configuration issues with a variety of public cloud hosted environments
Create and maintain operational documentation pertaining to deployment, management and administrative duties
Performs miscellaneous job-related duties as assigned.
KNOWLEDGE, EXPERIENCE & EXPERTISE
Deep knowledge of:
Operating systems and systems management (e.g. Linux, OSX, and Windows)
Scripting and development languages, including Python, Ruby, PERL, PHP
Developer tools including Docker, Git, SVN, Artifactory, etc.
Release automation technologies such as Jenkins or Bamboo
Configuration Management (e.g. Terraform/Chef/Ansible/Puppet)
Environment platform management systems such as OpenStack, Mezos or Cloudstack
Storage solutions, automation and provisioning technologies
Data center, network, and application architectures
File Transport Solutions (e.g. Signiant, Aspera)
Virtual hosting technologies (e.g. VMWare, KVM)
High performance data storage solutions whether SAN, NAS, or Clustered (e.g. Isilon)
Large-scale backup solutions and tape technologies (e.g. Quantum, NetBackup)
Data center, network, and application architectures
Local and Networked File Systems (e.g. NFS, CIFS, GPFS, StorNext, Hadoop)
Systems Security (e.g. key management, encryption, vulnerability management)
Desired practical experience:
Management of larger server environment, requiring high levels of automation
Strong project management and resource planning experience
IP networking including performance based troubleshooting
File System or hierarchical file system concepts
Software Defined Networking
Content Management System
Media Asset Management Systems
PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS
To fulfill these responsibilities, Systems Engineers typically should have the following personal characteristics:
A generalist who can perform many different tasks.
Able to comfortably multitask (i.e., perform multiple architecting tasks concurrently
Able to make important decisions given incomplete and conflicting knowledge.
Highly self-directed, being able to both manage and (re)prioritize the multiple concurrent and competing challenges, issues, ambiguities, and contradictions that necessarily occur during the production of the database architecture and design.
Strong analytical problem solving skills.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills, and thus able to explain and document the systems to their diverse audiences.
A team-building leader with good interpersonal and relationship building skills.
QUALIFICATIONS/EDUCATION
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering
6+ years in engineering or computer systems