Lead Site Reliability Engineer(only W2)

Title: Lead Site Reliability Engineer

Location: Orlando, FL 32819

Duration: 22 Months Contract

Job description:

The Lead Site Reliability Engineer will report to the Sr. Manager, Generative AI Engineering and play a key role in guiding the JedAI team s cloud infrastructure and generative AI platform reliability strategy. About The Role & Team You will lead infrastructure strategy across multi-cloud environments (Google Cloud Platform, AWS, and Azure) supporting Disney s Generative AI and Conversational Experience platforms. You ll modernize and manage applications including LiteLLM, Open Web UI, Archestra, Arize AX, and support back-end systems like Kafka, PostgreSQL, Redis, Vault, MongoDB, and n8n, ensuring they meet Disney s internal UI and security standards.

What You ll Do

• Plan, design, and build Helm charts, and infrastructure Terraform to maintain an annual 99.99% availability SLAs.
• Lead and mentor a team of Site Reliability Engineers and DevOps specialists within the AI platform.
• Architect, design, and maintain infrastructure environments supporting AI and data service workloads across Google Cloud Platform (primary), AWS (secondary), and Azure (tertiary).
• Identify, plan, and assign work for other peer team members (Jira).
• Review and provide feedback on platform sizing and volume estimations.
• Assist the capacity planning team to ensure scalability boundaries are aligned with expected workloads.
• Implement observability, monitoring, alerting, and tracing best practices across platform components (Splunk, Open Telemetry, Prometheus, AppDynamics).
• Plan, design, and implement automated deployment processes via Harness
• Plan, design, and implement modern enterprise rollout patterns such as blue/green deployments, canary deployments, and feature flags.
• Provide guidance to the platform architecture team with respect to solution infrastructure and scalability.
• Establish and support operational maintenance processes including backups, version updates, capacity planning, and security patching.
• Evaluate and pitch recommendations on emerging DevOps and SRE technologies, influencing Disney s reliability strategy across AI & platform teams.
• Ensure team compliance with Disney s governance, security, and business continuity frameworks.

Rapid Growth and Innovation:

• The Digital Architecture & Engineering team is experiencing rapid growth and expansion, requiring an architect to guide the development of our mobile platform to meet evolving user needs and business objectives. Complex Architecture:
• Our mobile application utilizes a complex architecture involving Flutter, Server Driven UI, Node.js, Typescript, Runtime, and Cloud services (AWS/Google Cloud Platform). This requires a deep understanding of these technologies and the ability to design a cohesive and efficient system.

Technical Leadership:

• We need a strong technical leader who can mentor and guide our development team, ensuring best practices, code quality, and efficient development processes.

Future Proofing:

• The Lead Software Architect will be responsible for designing scalable and adaptable architecture that can accommodate future growth, new features, and evolving technologies.

What You Will Do:

• Define and implement the overall mobile architecture, including backend integration, and data management.
• Lead the development of new features and functionalities, ensuring alignment with business requirements and user needs.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (design, product, backend) to ensure seamless integration and optimal user experience.
• Develop and maintain technical documentation, including architecture diagrams, design specifications, and coding standards.
• Mentor and guide junior developers, fostering a culture of continuous learning and improvement.
• Stay abreast of emerging technologies and trends in mobile development, identifying opportunities for innovation and improvement.

Basic Qualifications:

• 7+ years of SRE, DevOps, or platform engineering experience.
• Expert in Kubernetes operations, cluster scaling, and Helm-based configuration management.
• Advanced knowledge of Terraform and Harness for automated deployment and configuration.
• Proven experience managing multi-cloud services on Google Cloud Platform, AWS, and Azure.
• Strong scripting in Python, Bash, and YAML for automation and reliability workflows.
• Experience with PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, MongoDB, and Vault in production environments.
• Proficiency in CI/CD orchestration technologies (Harness, GitHub Actions, GitLab, Jenkins, and Azure DevOps) with deployment automation, feature flags, and observability.
• Self-motivated with strong leadership ability in Agile/Scrum environments; ability to set technical direction and mentor peers.
• Strong written communication skills; particularly in clearly explaining technical topics to less-technical audiences.
• Outstanding troubleshooting and diagnostic skills across distributed systems.
• Deep understanding of system security, identity management, and data protection compliance models.

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior leadership in hybrid cloud environments.
• Experience leading large infrastructure-focused initiatives.

Education

• Bachelor s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent relevant experience.
• Master s degree preferred.