Cloud DevOps Engineer

Who are we hiring?

MSG Sphere is looking for a cloud engineer to join the Core Tech team under the Director of Studio Services. In this role, you will support a growing and diversifying set of ground-breaking productions; developing and integrating services to automate and optimize production workflows from capture to playback.

MSG Sphere requires innovators who are used to adventuring beyond their comfort zone to solve real production challenges in collaboration with peers, stakeholders, and end users to clear today’s hurdles while building towards a better tomorrow. The extreme level of integration between disciplines requires a balanced, creative, agile approach to be successful; being able to prioritize, communicate, and see the bigger picture are required skills.

Candidates must have a proven history of managing and deploying stateful services in cloud environments, as well as monitoring and optimizing their resource usage, for high-end VFX or other areas of post-production, to provide the foundation for a stable, well documented, and maintainable pipeline ecosystem. 

What will you do? 

• Help develop, deploy, monitor, and maintain Core Tech services and databases
• Create integrations between services to propagate information to where it is needed
• Directly collaborate with pipeline engineers, end users, and stakeholders to advise on scalable and secure solutions to address problems, from proof-of-concept to deployment
• Monitor and maintain cloud service architecture and resource utilization
• Collect and present service data and metrics in a user-friendly manner to drive business decisions
• Adhere to industry-standard conventions for coding and documentation
• Identify potential optimizations or newer solutions to existing pipeline services and solutions
• Define and implement efficient and secure development processes and deployment procedures

 What do you need to succeed?

• 4 years’ minimum experience with deploying and maintaining cloud services and resources
• Strong experience writing pipeline services for a VFX, post, or animation facility
• Strong understanding of software development best practices (testing, version management, etc.) 
• Strong experience in all major OS (Linux, Windows, MacOS)
• Strong understanding of Docker, Kubernetes, and general container-based application development
• Proven experience with cloud platforms; AWS and GCP a plus
• Strong experience developing and using infrastructure-as-code (IAC) resource provisioning tools (Terraform, CDK, Palumi, etc.)
• Strong development experience with Python
• Strong experience with common CI/CD tools/workflows (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, etc.) 
• Experience with version control tools like Git 
• Experience with Flow Production Tracking (formerly ShotGrid) a plus 
• Experience with ASWF’s Rez package management a plus  
• Experience with Deadline (or similar render manager) a plus  
• Detail-oriented with excellent communication and documentation skills  
• Ability to multi-task, prioritize, take direction, and work under high pressure with tight deadlines  
• Good problem-solving, troubleshooting, and debugging skills
• Ability to collaborate with team members across different disciplines, including directly interfacing with stakeholders, to understand requirements

Special Requirements

• Special projects may require occasional travel and non-standard work hours

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