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Boulder Media requires a Senior System Administrator For Feature Film Production

As part of Hasbro Entertainment, Boulder Media is building a new feature animation division. We are excited to offer a talented Sys Admin the opportunity to join our very successful and established animation studio as we expand into a new area. We will be producing the first CG theatrical feature film made entirely in Ireland. The movie is based on a very well-known Hasbro property and we can’t wait to bring it to the big screen for the first time.

As Senior Systems Administrator you will be working with a bunch of other enthusiastic developers, artists and technicians to build a modern feature animation studio!

Responsibilities

• Design the studio infrastructure capable of supporting a feature animation workload
• Research, recommend and implement hardware, software and *aaS purchases
• Help expand storage, caching, rendering and VDI to cloud services such as Azure or AWS
• Work with the pipeline team and dev ops to resolve production issues
• Mentor less experienced members of the technology team
• Communicate with the external Hasbro and Boulder IT windows support teams
• Maintaining and optimizing renderfarm and other servers

Skills

• Advanced understanding of administration of networked linux (eg CentOS) systems
• Experience with high performance distributed computing and storage, preferably in high end vfx or animation environments
• Deployment, configuration, monitoring and imaging systems
• PCoIP
• Experience managing mixed cloud storage and compute environments
• Familiar with the security considerations for motion pictures
• Understanding of colour management

Apply for this role here