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Platform Engineer (Project Hire) at Walt Disney | LAYIQ

In this role, you will act as a proficient problem-solver and effective partner to engineering and product teams, owning platform components from design through operations while mentoring colleagues and working with minimal guidance. You will emphasize automation, observability, and lifecycle management platforms to improve reliability, reduce operational toil, and support data-driven decisions that enhance Disney Experiences worldwide.
Own and manage the full Splunk stack
End-to-end responsibility from bare metal infrastructure → OS → Splunk architecture → dashboards and analytics
Design, deploy, and maintain Splunk infrastructure
Install, configure, and optimize Splunk components (indexers, search heads, forwarders, clustering)
Manage both on-premise/physical server environments and hybrid integrations
Support real-time operational systems
Enable monitoring and observability for high-availability, real-time engineering systems
Build dashboards and alerts used by engineering and operations teams
Develop data pipelines and ingestion strategies
Integrate data from diverse sources (logs, sensors, applications, control systems)
Optimize parsing, indexing, and search performance
Partner with software engineering leadership
Work closely with Software Engineering Managers and system teams
Translate operational requirements into scalable Splunk solutions
Performance tuning and system reliability
Identify bottlenecks across infrastructure and data pipelines
Ensure high availability, redundancy, and system resilience
Security, governance, and access control
Implement role-based access and data governance best practices
Maintain compliance with enterprise security standards
Continuous improvement
Recommend architecture improvements and modernization strategies
Evaluate tools within the Splunk ecosystem (e.g., ITSI, ES, Cribl, etc.)
Required Qualifications
3+ years of experience with Splunk administration and development
Proven experience owning a Splunk environment end-to-end
Strong hands-on experience with: Splunk Enterprise architecture (indexers, search heads, clustering)
Data ingestion, parsing, and optimization
Dashboard and alert development
Experience managing on-prem / bare-metal infrastructure
Linux administration (preferred)
Server provisioning, performance tuning, and system monitoring
Experience supporting real-time, high-availability systems
Strong scripting skills (Python, Bash, or similar)

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