Fin Design + Effects is currently looking for a Senior Systems Administrator to provide IT leadership and support to our production staff and artists. This is a great opportunity to join a distinguished team of animation and VFX artists motivated by creativity and technical innovation, producing a great variety of interesting work including Thor: Ragnarok and I Am Mother. We are currently in production on several new international feature films and episodic projects.

What We Expect

• Great written and verbal skills.
• Team Management.
• Attention to detail.
• Ability to budget IT related systems and services either in concept, maintenance or deployment stages.
• Excellent customer service for internal staff.
• A proactive learner who keeps up to speed with trends in hardware, software, and security technologies/best practices.

Job Responsibilities

• Manage a team of information technology support staff in the Sydney and international offices.
• Architect and manage the deployment of new software systems, networks, and infrastructure.
• Liaise with key business personnel to anticipate future hardware and software requirements for upcoming VFX projects.
• Design and improve current information technology processes.
• Maintain the operation of software and hardware systems used in creating VFX.
• Security Compliance (MPAA/TPN).

Key Proficiencies

• Designing System Architectures
• Networking for both LAN and WAN architectures (e.g L2/L3, VLAN, ACLs, BGP, VPN, DHCP, DNS)
• Directory Services (e.g. AD)
• Security (e.g. digital system security, management and company procedures and policies, change management, physical security, risk management)
• Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (e.g. Hyper-V, VSAN, virtual networking, AWS, GCP)
• Systems Automation
• Monitoring (e.g. zabbix/grafana/nagios/cacti)
• SIEM (e.g. graylog/splunk/syslog)
• Vulnerability Testing (e.g. gsm/openvas)
• Data Protection (e.g. DR, backup and archival)
• Business Continuity
• Scalable Storage Systems (e.g. isilon, DFS, storage spaces)

Nice to Have Skills

• Previous experience with MPAA/TPN audit preparation and compliance.
• Configuration Management (e.g. ansibile, chef, puppet, GPO).
• Teradici architecture deployment.
• Render farm management experience (eg: Deadline, OpenQ, Tractor).
• Python experience (including Django and QT).