Job Description

Company Description

Technicolor Creative Studios shares are admitted to trading on the regulated market of Euronext Paris (TCHCS)

Technicolor Creative Studios is a creative technology company providing world-class production expertise driven by one purpose: The realization of ambitious and extraordinary ideas. Home to a network of award-winning studios, MPC, The Mill, Mikros Animation and Technicolor Games, we inspire creative companies across the world to produce their most iconic work.

Our global 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.



Summary

As a digital resource administrator in the Technical Resource Management (TRM) team, you will manage usage and allocation of digital render resources of all production departments across regions of technicolor.

The TRM department is made of a technical multi-disciplinary team that oversees the operational management of all the technical resources used by our production departments. That includes compute, global syncs, storage.

What you tell your friends you do

"I manage thousands of servers to help create Oscar winning effects for the latest movies or tv shows."

What you will really be doing

• Work on delivery of final rendered computer graphics elements for an animated feature film.
• Work with production to identify priorities and creative solutions to render concerns.
• Act as point of contact for production to communicate render and data needs.
• Monitor render queues and respond to identified errors/faults when required.
• Diagnose rendering problems in conjunction with the artists and production.
• Manage render farm resource allocations, including people and systems.
• Escalate render pipeline faults in a timely manner and ensure follow through.
• Analyze and report system failures to System Administration.
• Ensure team monitors critical systems, Grafana, data dashboards.
• Work with Systems Engineering Group to ensure optimal performance of render farm, networks and storage.
• Provide general technical support to other Technical Resources divisions as directed.
• Work with production teams to construct and implement render and data clean up policies.
• Facilitate and monitor the global syncing of assets between sites.
• Work with the equivalent team in the other global site/sites.
• Managing cloud resources, cloud computations.
• Monitoring the cloud usage and utilizing optimum level.
• Technical and user documentation.
• Data Operations and administrations including backup.
• Supporting the scripting used for Culling data, house keepings, Storage side support.
• Production request handling, troubleshooting skills.
• Monitoring control of technology resources across global sites.

Qualifications

• Previous experience in an Animation/VFX studio is ideal.
• Knowledge of animation/VFX artist tool applications such as Maya, Python, Nuke.
• Strong client service and communication skills.
• Ability to multi-task, prioritize and problem solve with competing deadlines.
• Any Degree/3-year Diploma in Engineering or a Technical Animation Degree.
• Team player with good communication skills.

Desirable:

Degree in Engineering, Computer Science or a related field.

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