About the Role & Team 

We are seeking a subject matter expert in reliability engineering with experience leading engineering teams, driving technical innovation, and delivering high‑quality, high‑impact products against key reliability objectives. The ideal candidate will bring strong leadership and mentoring skills, a clear vision for building reliable systems, and the ability to guide technical solutions from concept through to delivery. 

As a Lead Site Reliability Engineer, you will set short‑ and long‑term goals to reduce toil through automation, improve incident management and observability, introduce tooling to identify and resolve critical reliability issues, and ensure high standards of documentation. The role is highly collaborative, with regular interaction across engineering teams, stakeholders, and leadership. 

You will join a dynamic, inclusive engineering organisation focused on continuous learning and improvement, working on reliability solutions that enable development teams to meet their service level objectives through ongoing measurement and optimisation. 

Within the Reliability Tooling team, you will write and review code, make key technical decisions, own roadmap delivery, and mentor Engineers and Senior Engineers. You will be a trusted go‑to expert on SRE principles and best practices, with a strong focus on SLIs and SLOs across large‑scale, user‑facing and internal services. 

Given our strong emphasis on innovation, the successful candidate will also be adaptable and comfortable pivoting as priorities evolve. 

Values 

You’ll join a team grounded in our Disney values — acting with Integrity, welcoming everyone through Inclusion, embracing boundless Creativity, working together through Collaboration and caring deeply for our Community. These values shape how we work and how we support one another every day. 

What You Will Do 

• Technical Decision Making 

• Structuring short- and long-term work for the team (Roadmapping) 

• Mentor and support team members with SRE best practices to ensure the team delivers to its stakeholders 

• Work closely with development teams and provide them with technical guidance to ensure new features have the proper operational support and maintainability 

• Responsible for interpreting the business domain into a digestible format for the Engineers 

• Develop software for the purposes of automating, monitoring and maintaining deployed infrastructure and services 

• Assist leadership with engineer reviews on a regular basis, working with them to develop and execute individual Career Development Plans and targets 

• Encourage and circulate Company culture amongst team members 

• Represent the Company at conferences and meetups 

Required Qualifications & Skills  

• Track record of working as a Lead Site Reliability Engineer 

• Understanding of SRE principles, patterns and best practices 

• 5+ Years experience in designing and implementing automation tools 

• 5+ Years Experience working with AWS Cloud Infrastructure and Resources, or equivalent large Cloud services provider 

• Proficient in either two of programming languages: Python, Golang, Rust 

• Experience with modern infrastructure services and concepts such as containerization, distributed systems, microservices, etc 

• Experience running and monitoring large scale distributed systems 

• Understanding of Software Engineering principles and patterns 

• Track record of working with Linux systems in production