Sr Platform Engineer (Project Hire)

The Senior Platform Engineer is a skilled, independent contributor who designs, implements, and supports core platform and infrastructure capabilities that power magical Disney Experiences across parks, resorts, cruises, and consumer products. You will focus on data pipelines, on-prem server architecture, observability, and DevOps automation, ensuring robust, scalable, and reliable environments that enable teams to deliver seamless guest and cast experiences. This is a project hire position, estimated for 12 months. Responsibilities In this role, you will act as a proficient problem-solver and effective partner to engineering and product teams, owning platform components from design through operations while mentoring colleagues and working with minimal guidance. You will emphasize automation, observability, and lifecycle management platforms to improve reliability, reduce operational toil, and support data-driven decisions that enhance Disney Experiences worldwide. • Collaborate with team members, product, and engineering partners to deliver platform capabilities, support project needs, and resolve complex issues for assigned components or improvements. • Design, implement, and maintain infrastructure automation using tools such as Ansible and Terraform to standardize and streamline platform operations. • Efficiently support platform software and systems throughout their lifecycle, including upgrades, maintenance, troubleshooting, and clear operational documentation. • Build, enhance, and maintain CI/CD pipelines to enable reliable, repeatable deployments across environments. • Monitor and improve system performance, availability, and scalability through proactive analysis, observability practices, and automation, leveraging tools such as Splunk where appropriate. • Evolve the Kubernetes, Harvester, and Splunk platforms. • Maintain compliance with security, operational, and reliability standards across all supported environments, contributing to best practices and operational runbooks. • Work independently on complex platform initiatives, occasionally leading small efforts and providing guidance to less-experienced engineers as a mentor and subject-matter…