Dev Ops Engineer

Purpose of the job:

As a member of the Technology team, the Dev Ops Engineer is responsible for ensuring the smooth operation and stability of Linux-based servers and workstations, applications, and services in a heterogeneous CentOS, Windows 7/10, and OSX environment. Working in concert with the software and pipeline departments the Dev Ops Engineer will support a 24/7 facility with 700+ workstations and servers and a large scale render farm accessing Netapp NAS storage across multiple data centers in a WAN environment for a leading Visual Effects Studio.

Essential Functions/Responsibilities:

• Implement systems that are highly available, scalable, and self-healing
• Liaise with software and pipeline departments to test and implement new initiatives
• Test and modify systems and services to ensure that they operate reliably
• Implement and manage continuous delivery systems and methodologies
• Understand, implement, and automate security controls and governance processes for compliance
• Define and deploy central monitoring, metrics, and logging systems for servers and render nodes
• Design, manage, and maintain tools to automate operational processes
• Create, update and deploy workstation, render node and server OS images
• Create and implement test plans and deployments for major OS version release upgrades
• Maintain and deploy operating system patches and updates
• Troubleshoot, and optimize Linux servers and installed software
• Validate patches, applications, and new software version releases against existing systems
• Maintain and modify scripts and programs to support business processes.
• Document system installations, configurations, policies and procedures.
• Create and update documentation, including maintenance logs and end user training / onboarding
• Perform upgrades and version management of 3rd party applications
• Manage and administer Aspera transfer servers and services
• Manage and administer Confluence documentation system 

Qualifications:

 Education and/or Experience Required:

• Bachelor of Science (4-year) degree in a technical major or equivalent experience required.
• Must be an enthusiastic self starter who works well in a team environment.
• Ability to multitask while managing and prioritizing multiple projects.
• Excellent verbal and written communication.
• Strong interpersonal skills required.
• Ability to quickly assess complex problems and make critical decisions to resolve them.
• Experience with Security Control Audit requirements, file system security
• Experience using LDAP integration with AD in a heterogeneous Windows/Linux environment
• Experience  using Puppet, Chef, Vagrant, Ansible for configuration management
• Nagios, ganglia,  LogStash, Elastic Search experience
• Familiarity installing and maintain Postgres/Mysql
• Juniper and Brocade management experience
• Experience managing large scale render farms (thousands of nodes) including rapid image deployments, monitoring, and HP ILO / IPMI management
• Experience managing and configuring workstations to be accessed via zero client technologies
• Experience with VMWARE Hypervisors and ESX and Docker deployments
• Familiarity with version control systems: Git, SVN, CVS, and Perforce:
• Programming in Python, PHP, Perl, C++
• Experience in a VFX production environment preferred.
• Occasional after hours and weekend work should be expected in this role to facilitate systems maintenance

Working Conditions and Environment/Physical Demands: 

• Office working environment.
• Hours for this position are based on normal working hours but will require extra hours pending production needs.
• Walking/bending/sitting.