Sr Software Engineer

Company: Walt Disney Studios
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Location: Greater Manchester
Job Description:

Job Summary

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 enable secure, compliant, self-service ways of working for both the team and the developer base. This position will report to the Engineering Manager and collaborate with other Software Engineers on the CAM team.

About the Role & Team

The Production Platform Foundations team is a horizontal service team providing tools and guidance across the organization for operations in AWS. We act as a productivity multiplier, offering consulting and operational support to application teams to help them adopt AWS services in conjunction with existing infrastructure, while providing a cloud‑native perspective on architecture, infrastructure, and deployment strategies.

What You Will Do

  • Champion and execute best practices and security standards for operating in the cloud
  • Troubleshoot and implement granular, least‑privilege IAM permissions for user access and workloads running in multi‑tenant AWS accounts
  • Understand user access into AWS workloads and troubleshoot issues with SSH and SSM as access methods
  • Provision, monitor, renew, and own SSL certificates across all AWS accounts
  • 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 reported via Jira, email, and MS Teams

Required Qualifications & Skills

  • 5+ years of AWS experience
  • 3+ years of hands‑on AWS Security/IAM administration and policy‑creation experience for many users and workloads where least privilege is key
  • 3+ years of experience with deployment and CI/CD tools – Terraform, GitHub Actions, Spinnaker, and Jenkins are a plus
  • 3+ years of writing software to create tooling and automate routine tasks and deployments
  • Experience with Unix/Linux systems
  • Practical and personable with a succinct communication style, able to communicate with engineers
  • Familiarity with operational troubleshooting tools and techniques
  • AWS Certifications
  • 2+ years of experience supporting DevOps teams in mid‑to‑large‑sized organizations, especially in multi‑tenant environments
  • Familiarity with SSL Certificate management
  • Familiarity with general and AWS‑specific networking concepts, including VPC constructs, firewalling, complex routing, and DNS

The Perks

  • 25 days annual leave
  • Private medical insurance & dental care
  • Free Park Entry for you and your family and friends
  • Disney 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, and TRUST

The Walt Disney Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We strive to be a diverse workforce that is representative of our audiences, where all can thrive and belong. Disney is committed to forming a team that includes and respects a variety of voices, identities, backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. We will ensure individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

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Posted: April 8th, 2026