Senior System Engineer - Burbank, United States - aKUBE

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    City: Burbank, CA

    Onsite/ Hybrid/ Remote: 5 days a week onsite

    Duration: 18 months

    Rate Range: $92.5/hr on W2 depending on experience (no C2C or 1099 or sub-contract)

    Work Authorization: GC, USC, All valid EADs except H1b

    Description:

    From movie concept to film production. Global premiere to direct to consumer mobile applications. You will innovate and deliver solutions that support a studio whose content is legendary and transcends generations.

    Were looking for passionate engineers who love learning new technologies at a rapid pace. You should be intimately familiar with production systems. Lean, agile, self-sufficient teams is how we operate. We develop. You will be a part of the team that provides production tools and cutting-edge solutions for all of the studios under the umbrella.

    Your passion for engineering systems is visible to your team, stakeholders and in everything you and your team delivers. You take engineering for the business seriously, and that will help you make decisions that drive value every day. You are:

    A master problem solver. You take deep pride in your work and view each new problem as an opportunity for success; you approach challenges creatively, but methodically.

    Comfortable with ambiguity. You face change with a cool head and persevere even if you dont have all the details; youre comfortable moving between projects and facing the uncertain because risk and change motivates you to evolve and innovate.

    Technically astute. You rapidly learn new skills, grasping complicated technical information that often leaves others lost whether its product, industry, or hard tech knowledge, you absorb it quickly and are ready for more.

    Goal oriented. You develop and actualize creative vision, mission, and strategy into a cohesive outcome through capable team management, tactical execution, and unrelenting focus on daily progress; you connect production demand and technology strategies to the solutions you deliver

    Investigate, analyze, resolve and document hardware and software problems on a wide range of systems on-site and in public cloud for multiple production and post production environments

    Design and deploy systems in production timelines with high availability, and clear observability

    Author tools, and leverage open source, to automate tasks with an emphasis on reliability and repeatability

    Serve as an escalation point to troubleshoot and resolve performance and reliability issues in production environments

    Lead and collaborate with engineers to ensure systems are designed to be scalable, and easily operated

    Effective at dealing with change: Able to transition in role or handle a significant modification or technology with minimal ramp-up time and with very little guidance

    Basic Qualifications:

    Expertise in Linux, MacOS and Windows systems administration in a professional environment

    High performance storage solutions used in production (Quantum, Avid, Isilon)

    Media File Transport Solutions (e.g. Signiant, Aspera)

    Hands-On understanding of virtualization and VMware vSphere.

    Experience with Scripting and Automation (BASH, Python, etc.)

    IP networking including performance-based troubleshooting

    Data Center Operations, Power Management, Elevations

    Preferred Qualifications:

    Configuration management solutions and experience managing infrastructure as code. (ex: bash, ansible, terraform)

    Strong project management and resource planning experience

    Familiar with onsite and public cloud environments (AWS, Azure, Google)

    Data center, network, and application architectures

    Knowledge in Container Platforms (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes, Openshift)

    Experience with Post Production Software and Tools (e.g. Resolve, Baselight, Avid, Colorfront, etc.)

    BS Degree required. Computer Science or Electrical Engineering preferred.

    Additional Information:

    *Post production experience is not a priority, ideal to have

    Top Skills:

    • Technologies: Kubernetes, Linux OS
    • Minimum experience: 2 years plus experience
    • Degree or experience in a production environment
    • Media and Entertainment experience is very valuable
    • Cloud experience- any