Sr. Systems Administrator

Job Description

Company: SDFX Studios
Position: Sr. Systems Administrator
Location: Toronto, ON ( Role is onsite )
*Pay Range: $95,000 - $115,000 CAD annually

We currently have an opening for a Senior Systems Administrator. This position will be located in Toronto, ON or Los Angeles, CA.

The Senior Systems Administrator reports to the Manager of Production Technology. As a key technical team member, they will be responsible for systems architecture and administration of enterprise and distributed technologies, maintaining/securing/scaling local and global infrastructure, and will also participate in group wide planning efforts in collaboration with other facilities.

MAIN DUTIES:
The Senior Systems Administrator will install, deploy, and maintain all backend systems and software that runs our operations . They will quickly diagnose and resolve infrastructure hardware and software issues and maintain and ensure compliance with our security policies. They will be responsible for the following:
• Identify any risks to production systems integrity and coordinate remediation projects with other team members.
• Develop and maintain system and data configurations and manage backups of all priority infrastructure and data to ensure efficient and dependable redundancy for all critical production resources.
• Standardize and optimize workstation, render, and server deployment, and deploy and maintain systems monitoring.
• Work with technology management to understand the longer-term development goals of the group and execute according to requirements.
• Keep up to date on new technology, standards, protocols, and tools in areas relevant to the rapidly changing digital environment.
• Mentor other team members and encourage growth through collaboration on key projects.

WHAT YOU BRING:
The ideal candidate will have prior working experience as a systems administrator in a senior role and must have the capacity to address a variety of complex problems with clear focus and concise communication while servicing Production needs within a fast-paced dynamic environment. They will be experienced with VFX/Animation pipeline tools and supporting technologies in a studio feature or episodic environment preferred. Additional desired skills include:
• Excellent Customer Service and proven communication skills – must be a team player.
• Thorough systems engineering experience with IT infrastructure including but not limited to:
• Application servers (hardware, virtual, and hyper-converged infrastructure)
• Network infrastructure (switches, routers, firewalls, WiFi, VPN)
• Active Directory and LDAP directory services administration.
• Windows, OSX, and Linux platforms.
• Enterprise NAS/SAN data storage systems.
• Render or grid compute farms (management and deployment)
• VFX Application (Maya, Nuke, Adobe, VRay and/or other studio software)
• Editorial technologies (Quantel, Avid, Premier) and other video transport technologies.
• Scripting capabilities in Bash, Python, and/or C++ are preferred.
• Able to lift a minimum of 50 pounds

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-re6pw7-3-145-168-203-42 in your application.