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Senior Database Engineer - Site Reliability - Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology Careers
Software Engineer
Lead the design, deployment, and operation of high‑availability database services across AWS, ensuring reliability, performance, and scalability for Disney’s media platforms.
About the role
Key Responsibilities
- Architect and maintain distributed database clusters (SQL & NoSQL) on AWS, ensuring 99.99% uptime and optimal performance.
- Implement and manage CI/CD pipelines for database schema changes using Terraform and GitOps practices.
- Design and enforce monitoring, alerting, and incident response workflows with Prometheus, Grafana, and PagerDuty.
- Collaborate with development teams to optimize queries, index strategies, and data models for high‑traffic services.
- Lead capacity planning, cost optimization, and disaster‑recovery drills for critical data stores.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in database administration and site reliability engineering.
- Proficiency with AWS RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB, and related services.
- Strong scripting skills (Python, Bash) and experience with Kubernetes and Helm.
- Hands‑on experience with Terraform, Prometheus, Grafana, and incident‑management tools.
- Excellent problem‑solving skills and a proactive, collaborative mindset.
Skills
awskubernetesterraformsql