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Department Description
At Disney, we’re storytellers. We make the impossible, possible. The Walt Disney Company (TWDC) 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.
Team Description
The Manager, Systems Reliability Engineering (SRE) will be responsible for the SRE Observability team designs, implements, and continuously improves enterprise observability capabilities that enable proactive detection, faster incident resolution, and improved system reliability.
The Team integrates metrics, events, logs, and traces across applications, infrastructure, and networks, applying AIOps, anomaly detection, event correlation, dashboards, SLOs, and automation to provide a unified view of service health. Working across Operations, SRE, infrastructure, network, and application teams, the team identifies observability gaps and blind spots, improves telemetry and alert quality, and drives measurable reductions in MTTD, MTTR, and reactive outages
What You Will Do
Key Responsibilities:
Build and Lead the Observability Center of Excellence
- Establish and operationalize an Observability Center of Excellence (COE), including governance, standards, and adoption models
- Define the enterprise observability vision, roadmap, and maturity model aligned to business outcomes
- Develop and enforce standards for telemetry (logs, metrics, traces, events), tool usage, and instrumentation
- Drive cross-functional alignment across engineering, operations, SRE, and platform teams
Drive Observability Maturity and Transformation
- Lead the transition from reactive monitoring to proactive, predictive observability
- Perform current-state assessments to identify gaps, redundancies, and opportunities for improvement
- Build and execute a multi-phase roadmap toward AI-driven, full-stack observability
- Establish and track KPIs such as MTTD, MTTR, alert quality, and system coverage
Improve Monitoring, Alerting, and Signal Quality
- Reduce noise and alert fatigue through event correlation, anomaly detection, and tuning
- Standardize alerting frameworks and ensure alignment with business priorities
- Drive consolidation of observability tooling and improve ROI on monitoring investments
- Ensure monitoring coverage across all Tier 0/1 systems and critical services
Develop Unified Observability Platforms & Insights
- Deliver centralized dashboards and insights that enable data-driven operational decisions
- Create a unified view of system health, customer impact, and service dependencies
- Integrate observability into incident response, automation, and AIOps workflows
- Ensure observability data enables rapid root cause analysis and continuous improvement
Technical Leadership
- Act as a player-coach, directly contributing to architecture, implementation, and troubleshooting
- Design and implement observability solutions across cloud, infrastructure, and application layers
- Guide instrumentation strategies using modern frameworks (e.g., OpenTelemetry)
- Partner with engineering teams to embed observability into the development lifecycle
Governance, Standards, and Continuous Improvement
- Establish governance frameworks for observability data, tools, and practices
- Define onboarding standards for new systems into the observability platform
- Lead continuous service improvement (CSI) initiatives to enhance visibility and reliability
- Promote knowledge sharing, documentation, and runbook standardization
Required Qualifications & Skills:
- Minimum of 8+ years of experience in observability, monitoring, SRE, or production engineering
- Minimum of 3+ years in management roles
- Proven experience building or scaling observability platforms or CoE functions
- Strong hands-on expertise with observability tools (e.g., Datadog, Splunk, Prometheus, BigPanda, Grafana)
- Experience with logs, metrics, traces, and distributed systems observability
- Demonstrated success reducing MTTR, MTTD, and improving system reliability
- Experience integrating observability into incident management and service operations
- Strong understanding of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and modern architectures
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with AIOps, automation, and predictive analytics
- Familiarity with OpenTelemetry and observability standards
- Background in large-scale enterprise environments with tool consolidation initiatives
- Experience leading cross-functional transformation programs
Education:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience
Disclaimer
PAY TRANSPARENCY
The hiring range for this position in Orlando, FL is $165,900 - $222,400 and in Burbank, CA is $174,100 - 233,500. The base pay actually offered will take into account internal equity and also may vary depending on the candidate’s geographic region, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience among other factors. A bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to the full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the level and position offered.
This position is with Disney Worldwide Services, Inc., which is part of a business we call The Walt Disney Company (Corporate).
To learn more about Disney's guidelines on the use of AI for candidates, click here.
Disney Worldwide Services, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status. Disney champions a business environment where ideas and decisions from all people help us grow, innovate, create the best stories and be relevant in a constantly evolving world.
DISABILITY ACCOMMODATION FOR EMPLOYMENT APPLICATIONS
The Walt Disney Company and its Affiliated Companies are Equal Employment Opportunity employers and welcome all job seekers including individuals with disabilities and veterans with disabilities. If you have a disability and believe you need a reasonable accommodation in order to search for a job opening or apply for a position, visit the Disney candidate disability accommodations FAQs. We will only respond to those requests that are related to the accessibility of the online application system due to a disability.
Having technical issues? View the FAQs for help.
Department Description
At Disney, we’re storytellers. We make the impossible, possible. The Walt Disney Company (TWDC) 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.
Team Description
The Manager, Systems Reliability Engineering (SRE) will be responsible for the SRE Observability team designs, implements, and continuously improves enterprise observability capabilities that enable proactive detection, faster incident resolution, and improved system reliability.
The Team integrates metrics, events, logs, and traces across applications, infrastructure, and networks, applying AIOps, anomaly detection, event correlation, dashboards, SLOs, and automation to provide a unified view of service health. Working across Operations, SRE, infrastructure, network, and application teams, the team identifies observability gaps and blind spots, improves telemetry and alert quality, and drives measurable reductions in MTTD, MTTR, and reactive outages
What You Will Do
Key Responsibilities:
Build and Lead the Observability Center of Excellence
- Establish and operationalize an Observability Center of Excellence (COE), including governance, standards, and adoption models
- Define the enterprise observability vision, roadmap, and maturity model aligned to business outcomes
- Develop and enforce standards for telemetry (logs, metrics, traces, events), tool usage, and instrumentation
- Drive cross-functional alignment across engineering, operations, SRE, and platform teams
Drive Observability Maturity and Transformation
- Lead the transition from reactive monitoring to proactive, predictive observability
- Perform current-state assessments to identify gaps, redundancies, and opportunities for improvement
- Build and execute a multi-phase roadmap toward AI-driven, full-stack observability
- Establish and track KPIs such as MTTD, MTTR, alert quality, and system coverage
Improve Monitoring, Alerting, and Signal Quality
- Reduce noise and alert fatigue through event correlation, anomaly detection, and tuning
- Standardize alerting frameworks and ensure alignment with business priorities
- Drive consolidation of observability tooling and improve ROI on monitoring investments
- Ensure monitoring coverage across all Tier 0/1 systems and critical services
Develop Unified Observability Platforms & Insights
- Deliver centralized dashboards and insights that enable data-driven operational decisions
- Create a unified view of system health, customer impact, and service dependencies
- Integrate observability into incident response, automation, and AIOps workflows
- Ensure observability data enables rapid root cause analysis and continuous improvement
Technical Leadership
- Act as a player-coach, directly contributing to architecture, implementation, and troubleshooting
- Design and implement observability solutions across cloud, infrastructure, and application layers
- Guide instrumentation strategies using modern frameworks (e.g., OpenTelemetry)
- Partner with engineering teams to embed observability into the development lifecycle
Governance, Standards, and Continuous Improvement
- Establish governance frameworks for observability data, tools, and practices
- Define onboarding standards for new systems into the observability platform
- Lead continuous service improvement (CSI) initiatives to enhance visibility and reliability
- Promote knowledge sharing, documentation, and runbook standardization
Required Qualifications & Skills:
- Minimum of 8+ years of experience in observability, monitoring, SRE, or production engineering
- Minimum of 3+ years in management roles
- Proven experience building or scaling observability platforms or CoE functions
- Strong hands-on expertise with observability tools (e.g., Datadog, Splunk, Prometheus, BigPanda, Grafana)
- Experience with logs, metrics, traces, and distributed systems observability
- Demonstrated success reducing MTTR, MTTD, and improving system reliability
- Experience integrating observability into incident management and service operations
- Strong understanding of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and modern architectures
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with AIOps, automation, and predictive analytics
- Familiarity with OpenTelemetry and observability standards
- Background in large-scale enterprise environments with tool consolidation initiatives
- Experience leading cross-functional transformation programs
Education:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience
Disclaimer
PAY TRANSPARENCY
The hiring range for this position in Orlando, FL is $165,900 - $222,400 and in Burbank, CA is $174,100 - 233,500. The base pay actually offered will take into account internal equity and also may vary depending on the candidate’s geographic region, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience among other factors. A bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to the full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the level and position offered.
This position is with Disney Worldwide Services, Inc., which is part of a business we call The Walt Disney Company (Corporate).
To learn more about Disney's guidelines on the use of AI for candidates, click here.
Disney Worldwide Services, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status. Disney champions a business environment where ideas and decisions from all people help us grow, innovate, create the best stories and be relevant in a constantly evolving world.
DISABILITY ACCOMMODATION FOR EMPLOYMENT APPLICATIONS
The Walt Disney Company and its Affiliated Companies are Equal Employment Opportunity employers and welcome all job seekers including individuals with disabilities and veterans with disabilities. If you have a disability and believe you need a reasonable accommodation in order to search for a job opening or apply for a position, visit the Disney candidate disability accommodations FAQs. We will only respond to those requests that are related to the accessibility of the online application system due to a disability.
Having technical issues? View the FAQs for help.
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Who's Hiring
- Apple14
- Google14
- Amazon13
- Tesla9
- Levi Strauss6
Top Industries Hiring
- Technology & Software
- Retail
- Food & Beverage
- Manufacturing
- Medical Devices
What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in reliability engineering manager jobs.
- Bachelor's degree in mechanical, electrical, or industrial engineering
- Experience leading reliability or maintenance engineering teams
- Proficiency with CMMS platforms such as SAP PM or Maximo
- Hands-on knowledge of RCM, FMEA, and predictive maintenance methods
- Certified Reliability Engineer (CRE) credential or equivalent certification
- Demonstrated ability to manage capital projects and maintenance budgets
Tips for Your Reliability Engineering Manager Job Search
Quantify your uptime and cost impact
Reliability engineering manager resumes that land interviews show measurable outcomes: mean time between failures improved, maintenance costs reduced, or unplanned downtime cut. If your numbers are confidential, express them as percentages rather than leaving them out entirely.
List your CMMS and reliability tools
Hiring managers scan for specific platforms like SAP PM, Maximo, or Reliability Workbench. If you've used multiple systems, name each one in your skills section rather than grouping them under a vague header like 'maintenance software.'
Target postings by industry alignment
Reliability engineering manager roles in oil and gas emphasize RCM and turnaround management, while semiconductor fabs focus on OEE and cleanroom protocols. Tailor your resume's summary line to reflect the vocabulary of the specific industry you're targeting.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists reliability engineering manager openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Prepare a failure analysis story for interviews
Most technical interviews for this role include a scenario question about diagnosing a recurring equipment failure. Prepare a concise FMEA or root cause analysis example you led, with a clear problem, process, and outcome you can walk through confidently.
Negotiate scope before discussing compensation
Before salary conversations, clarify the team size, capital budget authority, and whether the role owns maintenance execution or only reliability strategy. Those distinctions change the value of the offer significantly and give you a stronger basis for negotiation.
Reliability Engineering Manager Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most reliability engineering managers?
The most active employers for reliability engineering managers right now are Apple, Google, and Amazon, and the most openings are in California, Texas, and New York, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Industries with the highest volume of postings include energy, heavy manufacturing, and semiconductor fabrication.
How many reliability engineering manager jobs are remote?
About 75% of reliability engineering manager openings are fully remote or hybrid as of November 2026, reflecting the hands-on nature of most plant and facility environments. Sub-areas with the most remote flexibility include reliability program development, data analysis roles, and positions focused on digital twin or predictive analytics strategy rather than direct equipment oversight.
How do you become a reliability engineering manager?
Start by building several years of hands-on reliability or maintenance engineering experience, ideally leading failure investigations and implementing predictive maintenance programs. Earning a Certified Reliability Engineer credential strengthens your candidacy significantly. Move into supervisory roles by volunteering to lead cross-functional improvement projects, then pursue manager-level postings that specify team leadership as a core requirement.
Can you get hired as a reliability engineering manager without direct management experience?
Yes, candidates who have led reliability improvement projects, chaired cross-functional FMEA teams, or mentored technicians can make a credible case for a first management role. Emphasize any informal leadership you held, the size of the asset base you owned, and results you drove without formal authority. Smaller facilities and growing industrial companies are often more open to promoting technically strong engineers into their first management position.
What does the reliability engineering manager interview process look like?
Most processes include an initial screening call, a technical interview focused on your approach to RCM, FMEA, and failure analysis, and a behavioral round assessing how you manage teams and prioritize competing maintenance demands. Final-stage interviews often include a plant walkthrough or a case study where you diagnose a hypothetical equipment reliability problem and present a remediation plan to a panel of engineering and operations leaders.
Where can I find and apply to reliability engineering manager jobs?
You can find and apply to reliability engineering manager jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from across the United States. Search for roles that match your industry background and experience level, then apply directly to each listing that fits.
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