Lead Content Distribution Engineer
Role Overview
For the role of Lead Content Distribution Engineer, Media Processing and Distribution is looking for a candidate specializing in caching technology, distributed networking, and operational experience in CDN edge services.
This role will join the Product Engineering organization as part of the Media Distribution Technology team which develops and maintains CDN configurations for all CDNs in the Disney Distribution Mesh.
Areas of focus include:
• Configure and manage CDN configurations in the Disney Distribution Mesh
• Actively manage OpenCache deployments with ISPs globally
• Actively review performance metrics across our caching infrastructure for improvements (in concert with operations and performance management teams)
• Review capacity and ensure alignment with global distribution strategy
• Oversee Day-to-Day operations of Disney Distribution Mesh
• Participate in tooling development to integrate 3rd party CDNs into unified control plane
• Operational Management Contact for CDN support – actively managing incidents via communication with CDN support teams
• Identifying areas for caching configuration tuning and adjustment
• Work to solve caching issues in concert with our operations and engineering organizations
• Provide consultation on caching solutions to internal stakeholders
• Provide senior tier-3 on call evaluation, escalation and support
Key Skills for This Role
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Responsibilities and Duties of the Role:
- Focus on operations & management of cache solutions
- Support product driven initiatives and projects
- Develop engineering tooling and automation
- Training & mentoring
Required Education, Experience/Skills/Training:
- Minimum of 7 years of experience managing caching solutions
- Understanding of streaming video protocols (HLS) and how it interacts with caching
- Ability to perform Network Troubleshooting
- Effective communication, written and verbal
- Passion for troubleshooting and debugging
- Experience in a Content Distribution Network environment
- Knowledge of video players and impact on cache logic
- Bachelors degree required
- Preferred experience with:
- HTTP/DNS/Internet Architecture
- Caching (Varnish)
- Web Serving (NGINX, HAProxy)
- Cloud Technologies (AWS, GCP)
- Scripting Languages (Python, et al)
- Security Protocols (SSL Certificates, TLS)
- Configuration Management (Ansible, AWX)
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Qualifications
- Minimum of 7 years of experience managing caching solutions
- Understanding of streaming video protocols (HLS) and how it interacts with caching
- Ability to perform Network Troubleshooting
- Effective communication, written and verbal
- Passion for troubleshooting and debugging
- Experience in a Content Distribution Network environment
- Knowledge of video players and impact on cache logic
- Bachelors degree required
- HTTP/DNS/Internet Architecture
- Caching (Varnish)
- Web Serving (NGINX, HAProxy)
- Cloud Technologies (AWS, GCP)
- Scripting Languages (Python, et al)
- Security Protocols (SSL Certificates, TLS)
- Configuration Management (Ansible, AWX)
- Date Posted
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