Senior Software Engineer - Production Platform Foundations
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Location: Greater Manchester, United Kingdom / London, United Kingdom
Business: Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology
Date posted: May 06, 2026
Job Summary
A Senior Software Engineer on the Production Platform Foundations 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. This position will report to the Engineering Manager and will interact with other Software Engineers in the Cloud Account Management (CAM) team.
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.
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 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 succinct communication style and ability 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 multitenant environments
- Familiarity with SSL certificate management
- Knowledge of 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 family/friends
- Disney discounts on designated products, resort food & beverage, and ticketing
- Excellent parental and guardian leave
- Employee Resource Groups - 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, and 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 that 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.