Senior DevOps Engineer
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Job Location:
Los Angeles, CA - USA
Yearly Salary:
$ 145000 - 175000
Posted on:
2 days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Skydance offers a dynamic inclusive and ever-evolving culture where innovative ideas are welcomed and growth fostered. The partnership between unique creativity and technological advancements are demonstrated within each pillar of the company. At the heart of it all is a commitment to boldly entertaining and relevant storytelling.
While all Animation studios look to hire people who are creative and hard-working Skydance Animation is specifically looking for pioneers who seek to push the limits of what the worlds most collaborative art form can achieve and to give those pioneers the space and the resources to build a new studio thats doing something different.
If youve ever dreamt of what the early days of Hollywood must have been like of what it takes to roll up your sleeves and break new ground figure out a new process and to one day say I was there when it all began then welcome aboard
For information on Skydances privacy practices see theSkydance U.S. PersonnelPrivacy Notice located at Senior DevOps Engineer is a senior member of the Information Technology organization responsible for applying modern DevOps practices to a large existing production environment.
This role is not greenfield. You will work within a mature heterogeneous infrastructure on-premises and cloud progressively introducing automation standardization and reliability improvements without disrupting active production.
You will partner closely with Pipeline Production Technology Security and Engineering teams to influence how infrastructure is designed delivered and operated acting as a technical driver for DevOps principles across the studio.
Responsibilities
- Apply DevOps principles to an existing production-critical IT environment balancing modernization with stability
- Design implement and operate a global Linux ecosystem supporting workstations servers and animation production pipelines
- Partner with Pipeline Production and Technology teams to introduce infrastructure-as-code automation standards and repeatable deployment patterns
- Identify high-value manual error-prone or inconsistent operational processes and replace them with automated solutions using Terraform Ansible and Python
- Architect provision and maintain infrastructure across AWS Azure Google Cloud and OCI including compute storage networking and virtualization
- Own end-to-end technical designs for infrastructure projects including prioritization implementation documentation and operational handoff
- Maintain a deep understanding of studio workflows and collaborate with Production Technology to evolve systems alongside production needs
- Design build and maintain CI/CD pipelines; guide development teams toward reliable build test and deployment practices
- Define and promote best-in-class CI/CD source control and branching strategies in collaboration with Engineering and Security teams
- Design operate and maintain render farm infrastructure with a focus on configuration management and performance monitoring
- Present technical options to leadership including architectural trade-offs cost analysis and risk considerations
- Act as a technical advocate for automation observability and reliability across IT and production-facing teams
- Participate in a 247 production on-call rotation focusing on root-cause analysis and long-term remediation
- Mentor junior engineers and help raise the overall operational maturity of the IT organization
Requirements
- 8 years of experience as a DevOps Engineer Site Reliability Engineer or equivalent role supporting production systems
- Strong hands-on experience with infrastructure automation and configuration management (Terraform Ansible Puppet or similar)
- Proficiency in scripting and programming for systems integration and automation (Python required; Bash Go or similar preferred)
- End-to-end experience designing and operating CI/CD pipelines in production environments
- Demonstrated experience architecting and operating infrastructure in one or more major cloud platforms (AWS Azure GCP and/or OCI)
- Solid Linux systems administration experience including application deployment service troubleshooting and containerized workloads
- Experience operating and supporting source control platforms (e.g. GitHub) including branching and release workflows
- Hands-on experience with containerization and Kubernetes-based platforms in production environments
- Strong communication skills with the ability to clearly explain technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Proven problem-solving ability and a pragmatic approach to operational reliability
Nice to Have
- Experience with identity and access management systems including MFA providers (Okta Duo) and authentication protocols (LDAP Active Directory SAML OAuth) a plus
- Working knowledge of NFS and SMB file protocols across Linux macOS and Windows environments including performance and reliability considerations a plus
- Experience operating file transfer and content distribution systems (e.g. Box Dropbox OneDrive Signiant Aspera FTP Filerunner) a plus
- Prior experience in animation visual effects or media and entertainment environments a plus
How Youll Be Successful
- Reduce manual ad-hoc infrastructure changes by replacing them with reproducible automated workflows
- Increase consistency and reliability across environments without disrupting active production
- Improve system observability debuggability and operational confidence through better tooling and standards
- Deliver incremental modernization that leaves systems more maintainable than you found them
- Build trust with engineers pipeline and production teams by shipping practical improvements that solve real problems
- Raise the overall DevOps maturity of the IT organization through example documentation and mentorship
The compensation for this exempt position in Los Angeles CA is $00 annually. The rate offered may vary based on the candidates location qualifications experience and relevant expertise among other factors. The range indicated is for base salary only and does not reflect the total compensation package including bonus benefits etc.
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Skydance is a diversified media company founded by David Ellison in 2010 to create high quality event-level entertainment for global audiences. The Company brings to life stories of immersive worlds across its feature film television interactive and animation divisions.
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Skydance is a diversified media company founded by David Ellison in 2010 to create high quality, event-level entertainment for global audiences. The Company brings to life stories of immersive worlds across its feature film, television, and interactive platforms.”
