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Junior Systems Engineer

Moving Picture Company

Junior Systems Engineer

Los Angeles, CA
Full Time
Paid
  • Responsibilities

    Job Description

    Reporting to the Head of Technology, the Junior Systems Engineer role offers unlimited potential to advance technical skills, experience with state-of-the-art technology and opportunity to learn from specialist digital media colleagues. 

    WHAT YOU’LL DO:

    • Provide technical support for VFX Artists using Linux workstations. 

    • Install, deploy, and troubleshoot VFX tools including Flame, Maya, Nuke, Baselight as well as MPC developed tools. 

    • Integrate off-the-shelf and custom applications into production pipelines. 

    • Support and maintain infrastructure including Tractor based Render farm, Linux render nodes, Isilon storage, Linux servers and workstations, network equipment, and virtual machines. 

    • Work and communicate with London headquarters and counterparts in other MPC offices around the globe. 

    • Work with artists and producers to understand individual projects to serve as an expert resource. 

    • Assist in developing methods to streamline workflow and increase job delivery efficiency within budget and technical limitations. 

    • Work with the team to design, develop and implement/install software tools to achieve the desired production goals. 

    • Assist the engineering team with various evaluation, installation, development and decommissioning projects. 

    • Stay informed of latest developments in data-based workflows, audio and video systems and the general working practices of high-end commercial post production studios.

     

  • Qualifications

    Qualifications

    WHAT YOU’LL NEED:

    Essentials

    • Engineering level knowledge of standard CG, compositing and color grading applications (Maya, Houdini, Flame, Nuke and Baselight) 

    • Excellent communication, people skills, and team working skills. 

    • Capacity to manage a busy workload with high productivity.

     

     

    Technical skills

    • Strong understanding of storage and networking, NFS, Isilon storage cluster, Brocade switch configuration and IFFFS framestores. 

    • Knowledge of programming with Python and other scripting languages such as bash, tcsh, and Perl. 

    • Basic understanding of color science principles is desirable.

     

     

    Experience

    • Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or equivalent experience. 
    • A minimum of 2 years UNIX/Linux, Mac OS X and Windows system administration experience. 
    • Experience with scale strongly preferred. (Renderfarms, Clusters, Clouds, Enterprise, etc.)

     

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