System Adminstrator Jr

Job Description

Technicolor Creative Studios is a creative technology company driven by one purpose: The realization of ambitious and extraordinary ideas. We inspire creative companies across the world to produce their most iconic work. Our award-winning teams of artists and technologists' partner with the creative community across film, television, animation, gaming, brand experience and advertising to bring the universal art of storytelling to audiences everywhere.

The Moving Picture Company (MPC) has been a global leader in visual effects (VFX) for over 25 years and counting, with established facilities across the globe. We are renowned for adding visual wonder and creative expertise to films, advertising, and other entertainment. Some of our most famous projects include the blockbuster movies Blade Runner 2049, The Jungle Book, The Lion King, and 1917; and advertising campaigns for Channel 4, Sony, and IKEA.

Technicolor's premiere portfolio of VFX brands and services, working alongside Mill Advertsing and Mikros Animation to provide offerings tailored to the specific creative and storytelling needs of each project. Within this collective, MPC has built a reputation for industrial-scale production of images, and the software development to enable this.

This is a Junior software role that contributes across the Technicolor portfolio by assisting with implementing state of the art tools for image creation and finishing. These disciplines encompass lighting, rendering, compositing, plate and movie manipulation, and review strategies for all of this.

The Systems Administrator role involves taking responsibility for the successful management and maintenance of systems and services within The Mill, and ensures that the production services perform effectively, while maintaining a high level of customer (internal and external) satisfaction.

This includes developing, maintaining, supporting, and optimizing key functional areas, particularly cloud, server and network infrastructure. You will troubleshoot, and resolve hardware, software and process problems in a timely, efficient and effective fashion.

You will be part of a team who takes ownership for effective provisioning of systems and services to the business and has responsibility for the operational integrity of all deployed technology and in ensuring that processes and governance are in place to minimize the risk to ongoing operations.

This role will report to the Head of Technology. They will work closely with the Systems team to ensure the successful transition of technology from design and implementation into operations through the application of knowledge transfer and capability management.

What you'll do:
• Systems Automation – Identify, Architect, Develop and Deploy infrastructure automation to optimize existing workflows, and enable new ways of working.
• Establish and maintain regular written and verbal communications with departments and end users regarding pertinent infrastructure and local IT activities.

Qualifications

Qualifications
• Linux experience (RHEL/Centos & Ubuntu) in Desktop and Server environments
• Knowledge of Windows Server, Windows 10 and MacOS
• Operational knowledge of the Cloud platforms
• VMWare/vSphere configuration and management
• Active Directory, LDAP, for machine and user authentication
• Configuring network protocols, such as - NFS, SMB, FTP, DNS
• Familiarity with configuration management tools – Such as Puppet, Ansible, Chef
• Ability to configure, maintain and troubleshoot bare metal hardware (workstations, servers)
• Familiarity with networking equipment
• Approachable with a can-do attitude
• Desirable
• Experience in a Post Production facility
• Further/Higher Education qualification in an appropriate field (eg. Computer Science)
• Knowledge of PCOIP protocol and architecture
• Ability to script with Bash, Python, or PowerShell

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-gqn17m-3-143-9-115-42 in your application.