The Walt Disney Company · London
Software Engineeringposted 13d ago
Job Posting Title:
Network EngineerReq ID:
10153221Job Description:
About the Role & Team
At Disney, we’re storytellers. We make the impossible, possible. The Walt Disney Company is a world-class entertainment and technological leader. Walt’s passion was to continuously envision new ways to move audiences around the world—a passion that remains our touchstone in an enterprise that stretches from theme parks, resorts and a cruise line to sports, news, movies and a variety of other businesses. Uniting each endeavor is a commitment to creating and delivering unforgettable experiences — and we’re constantly looking for new ways to enhance these exciting experiences.
The Enterprise Technology mission is to deliver technology solutions that align to business strategies while enabling enterprise efficiency and promoting cross-company collaborative innovation. Our group drives competitive advantage by enhancing our consumer experiences, enabling business growth, and advancing operational excellence.
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
In the Global Network Engineering & Operations team, we are responsible for the Disney Global Network, the Studio Production Network and many other worldwide networks that support film-making, sports, parks, resorts, and all of the departments that make our businesses run
Required Qualifications & Skills
Responsible for designing, planning and executing complex projects
Responsible for analyzing evolving security threats, technologies, and industry trends
Escalation point for other Tier 1 and 2 network support engineers
Support multiple teams dedicated to building and operating core network infrastructure
Collaborate with other engineering teams to automate various processes, aid in capacity planning and implementations
Engineer and deploy scalable and flexible high-performance and high-availability network infrastructure
Generate quality documentation on network issues, updates, root cause analysis, troubleshooting techniques and network analysis including diagrams/templates. Exercise consistent rigor in maintaining documentation
Ensure reliable operation of systems and infrastructure software by designing and implementing network, instrumentation and management tools in order to predict, quickly diagnose and resolve abnormal network behavior
Liaison between critical production engineering groups
Serve as a Tier 2 support for Systems, Media, Storage and Cloud Operations Engineers
Interface with other Disney entities and their networks to support cross-segment workflows, file transport and other sharing of media assets, devices and infrastructure
Must Haves
Minimum of 3 years of experience in engineering and operations for a Studio, ISP or a Major Enterprise network in a 7x24x365 environment. Normal hours and business days apply, but must be available to work after hours, weekends and some holidays as well as providing L3 on-call support on a rotation basis will be required.
Experience working in a multi-vendor network environment (Juniper, Arista, Cisco, Brocade, Palo Alto, F5, Infinera, Ciena)
Consistent track record of implementing large-scale and mission-critical networks
Experience running and supporting high availability infrastructure
Working experience with Public Cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure and/or GCP)
Experience implementing/maintaining monitoring and alerting for production systems
Network theory and services (TCP/IP, UDP/IP, 7 layers of OSI, DNS, DHCP)
Mid-level expertise with VXLAN, STP, ISIS, BGP, EVPN and MPLS
Networked Storage technologies (NAS, SAN, Clustered, Tape)
I/O technologies (Fiber Channel, InfiniBand, SCSI, SATA, SAS)
Network hardware (firewalls, routers, switches, load balancers, transport gear)
Local and Networked File Systems (NFS, SMB, DFS, NTFS)
Video streaming theory, standards and concepts
Exceptional advanced troubleshooting skills
Understanding of Network Security principals and best practices
Experience working on virtualized network environments (overlays)
Experience with network scripting/automation
Experience with configuration management systems such as Ansible or Terraform
Strong hands-on support of large WAN, LAN and MAN environments
3rd party interfacing and network-to-network connectivity experience
Experience implementing scalable, highly available and secure VPN environments
Experience developing automated methods to mitigate and remediate network events
and minimize operational complexity
The Perks
25 days annual leave
Private medical insurance & dental care
Free Park Entry: You will have the opportunity to enter any of our parks with your family and friends for free
Disney Discounts: you are entitled to discounts on designated Disney products, resort F&B and ticketing
Excellent parental and guardian leave
Employee Resource Groups – WOMEN @ Disney, Disney Mosaic, Disney PRIDE, our disability & neurodiversity focused group - ENABLED, and our Mental Health & Wellbeing Group, 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.
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Date Posted:
2026-08-24