Senior Systems Engineer

March 22

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About Skydance Media Skydance is a diversified media company founded by David Ellison in 2010 to create high quality, event-level entertainment for global audiences$1. .$1

film • television • interactive • virtual reality • VR

201 - 500

Description

• Develop technical “vision” for projects, translate targeted solutions into end-to end architectural designs, set proper priority and lead implementations • Maintain a strong understanding of studio workflows/pipeline and collaborate with Production Technology group to provide proper systems services and automation • Design, implement and maintain the studio’s data center, server infrastructure, storage, virtualized environment, networking and hybrid cloud environment • Design, implement and maintain other studio services, including identity, domain, dns, alerting, monitoring, file transfer systems, code repos, media/digital asset management, syslog centralization, and many others • Implement and maintain operating systems and standards for both servers, client machines, and/or mobile devices • Design, implement and maintain render farm including configuration, deployment, performance and capacity monitoring, forecasting, and cloud bursting capabilities • Design, implement and maintain a containerized environment in collaboration with the production technology team • Identify areas of improvement and present those opportunities to technology leadership including options, cost-benefit breakdown, and integration plans • Must proactively seek out trends, technologies and information to keep overall studio current and aware of possible solutions to studio challenges • Author and deliver project presentations/updates to technical/non-technical audiences that include milestones and scheduling • Foster positive relationships with peers, supervision, stakeholders, 3rd parties, and mentor junior team members

Requirements

• 8+ years as a Systems Engineer, or relevant experience • Extensive experience installing and configuring Linux (CentOS/RHEL) • Experience with Microsoft Active Directory (DFS, DNS, DHCP, GPO’s, SCCM, SCOM) • Experience with identity management infrastructure/architecture with multi-factor authentication (Okta, Duo, etc..) with understanding of standard authentication protocols such as LDAP, Active Directory, SAML, and OAuth • Experience with O365 administration and support • Experience with administration of file sharing, file transfer infrastructure (e.g. Signiant, Aspera, OneDrive, Box, Dropbox, FTP, etc..) • Experience in the design and support of Enterprise Storage infrastructure, and Cloud Object Storage (e.g. Isilon, NetApp, Qumulo, Pure, XtremeIO, VAST, S3, etc..) • Experience with NFS/SMB file protocols and how they operate in Mac, Windows, and Linux environments • In-depth knowledge of VMWare Virtualization w/ VSphere 6.x Administration & VM Backup Technology • Strong system monitoring expertise with LogicMonitor, DataDog, Sensu, Prometheus, Xabbix, or similar • In-depth knowledge of Networking Infrastructure, WAN Design, and Administration • Experience or familiarity with cloud architectures and platforms such as Docker, Kubernetes, OCI, AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure in a multi-region deployment • Scripting knowledge (e.g. PowerShell, bash scripts, Python, Ruby, Go) • Experience with automation/configuration management software (Ansible, Salt, Chef, etc..) a plus • Experience with VDI, Teradici, or another Thin Client technology a plus • Experience with Media Asset Management Infrastructure a plus • Experience in the Visual Effects, Animation, or media and entertainment industries a plus • Share a 24×7 on call production support rotation with your team and respond to service incidents. • Demonstrated ability to manage projects and to deliver them on time and with quality • Excellent written and verbal communication skills and the ability to work closely and efficiently with studio teams

Benefits

• Dynamic and inclusive culture • Space and resources for innovation • Opportunity to push the limits of animation • Opportunity to be part of building a new studio