The Walt Disney Company

Software Engineer - Cloud Account Management

In short

Senior Software Engineer role on Disney's Cloud Account Management (CAM) team, focused on building automation and tooling for secure, self-service AWS operations and providing IAM/security guidance to DevOps teams at Disney Streaming. Requires 5+ years of software engineering experience, strong AWS/IAM security background, and familiarity with Terraform, CI/CD tools (GitHub Actions, Spinnaker, Jenkins), Python/backend development, and Docker. Based in Manchester, UK, with a hybrid schedule of 4 days in office and 1 day remote.

Job Posting Title: Senior Software Engineer - Cloud Account Management
Req ID: 10145597
Responsibilities
•Write automation tools for your team and other internal teams to self-service, deploy, detect, alert, and mitigate in our AWS environments
•Champion and execute best practices and security standards for operating in the cloud
•Troubleshoot and implement appropriate IAM permissions for user access and workloads running in AWS
•Provide guidance and recommendations to development teams on service design and deployments
•Own initiatives and contribute to future solution designs and planning
•Be a go-to technical resource on the team, spanning across levels and cross functional teams
•Monitor and work on inbound issues
Requirements
•5+ years of professional software engineering experience, or equivalent practical experience
•Experience building on public cloud, preferably AWS
•Experience with deployment and CI/CD tools - Terraform, GitHub Actions, Spinnaker, and Jenkins
•Relevant software engineering experience, primarily backend (python, database, building APIs)
•Hands-on AWS Security/IAM administration and policy-creation experience for many users and workloads
•Familiarity with Docker and containerization concepts
•Experience with Unix/Linux systems
•Exhibit clear, succinct written and verbal communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders
•Taking a practical, collaborative approach when working with engineers
•Familiarity with operational troubleshooting tools and techniques
About the team and role
The Production Platform Foundations team is a horizontal service team providing both tools and guidance across the organization for operations in AWS. We strive to act as a productivity multiplier, providing consulting and operational support to Application teams to help them drive their adoption of AWS services in conjunction with their existing infrastructure. We work closely with those groups to offer a "cloud-native" perspective on application architecture, infrastructure, and deployment strategies.
A Senior Software Engineer on the Cloud Account Management (CAM) team is a security-focused cloud engineer responsible for designing, building, and supporting automation and tooling initiatives that further enable secure, compliant, self-service ways of working for both the team and the developer base. In addition, this role will provide operational and technical guidance to Application Development (DevOps) teams that are utilizing the AWS environment at Disney Streaming.
This position will report to the Engineering Manager and will interact with other Software Engineers in the Cloud Account Management (CAM) team.
This role will be based in our Manchester office, 4 days a week, with either a Monday or Friday working from home.
Benefits
•25 days annual leave
•Private medical insurance & dental care
•Free Park Entry: opportunity to enter any of our parks with family and friends for free
•Disney Discounts: discounts on designated Disney products, resort F&B and ticketing
•Excellent parental and guardian leave
•Employee Resource Groups – WOMEN @ Disney, Disney Mosaic, Disney PRIDE, ENABLED (disability & neurodiversity group), TRUST (Mental Health & Wellbeing Group)
Employment Type: Full time
Primary City: Manchester, United Kingdom

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