Description
Want to work with both highly creative and
technical people, and enjoy movies?! We are looking for a DevOps Engineer
who is responsible for the constant pursuit of service
reliability and scalability of global 24x7 Production services, by leveraging
automation, durable/redundant architectures and advanced monitoring.
This is achieved by working in partnership with
the IT Operations Team, to maximise resource efficiencies and ensure unified,
real-time monitoring, across Sydney & Vancouver of all key systems,
applications and infrastructure
This role is not for the faint hearted! You
will be working in a creative, dynamic and fast paced environment.
What you’ll get to do:
·
Work in partnership with the IT
Operations Team, to maximise resource efficiencies and ensure unified,
real-time monitoring, across Sydney and Vancouver of all key systems,
applications and infrastructure.
- Help to define, configure and maintain the monitoring, analytics
and AI-Ops systems used by the business.
- Work on infrastructure-as-code projects, and help to make
programmatic provisioning of infrastructure the default.
- Plan for
scalable +N operations.
- Ensure
unified monitoring and work to encourage consistent systems and schemas
across all Animal Logic locations.
- Ensure
appropriate communication of scheduled or unscheduled service disruptions,
and assist in automating the resolution of these issues via monitoring and
automation.
- Ensure up to
date knowledge of the general pipeline and types of workloads, and the
status of ALL productions in their delivery life cycle.
- Assist with
capacity forecasts for key resources.
- Work closely with operations and infrastructure engineering teams
to design and implement scalable and high-performance PaaS and SaaS
solutions.
- Recommend solutions for process and efficiency improvement within
all areas of technical operations, and assist in implementation.
- Actively facilitate, and build/manage tools to facilitate,
continuous improvement in the enterprise’s technical operations.
- Participate
in security initiatives, particularly monitoring aspects, e.g. threat
monitoring including AV, Firewall, SIEM and Gateway services.
- Ensure all necessary operational processes and procedures are
carried out with an elevated level of attention to detail, expediency and
on-time delivery.
- Provide tier-2 and tier-3 troubleshooting and break-fix support
for production services.
- Quickly and efficiently troubleshoot issues in real-time to
provide outstanding support responsiveness for internal service level
objectives.
- Develop and maintain tools and automation to improve the
efficiency of virtualised services/micro services.
- Monitor various systems capacity
and health indicators and trends; provide analytics & forecasts for
added or reduced capacity as required.
- Escalate issues to senior technical staff when necessary via
agreed protocols.
- Help control deployments within PREPRODUCTION environment and help
to improve the process for deploying to PRODUCTION.
- Assist RnD and IT to produce appropriate documentation for the
work you are involved in, and/or implement systems or scripts that
dynamically document that information.
- Provide regular updates on the
status/progress of projects to the DevOps Lead, Technology Producer, and
key members of the teams you work with, as appropriate.
- Develop and maintain ongoing
professional relationships with key Production, R&D, Systems
Engineering & Support Engineering Staff across the enterprise.
What you bring:
-
Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent
knowledge and experience in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or
Information Engineering.
- Proficient in one or more scripting languages (Python, Ruby, Go,
Bash, etc.)
- Proficient in systems administration
workflow automation, logging, monitoring and alerting.
- Instinctive ability to diagnose code
or scripts.
- Coding experience is beneficial.
- Strong communication and
interpersonal skills.
- Strong hands-on technical
abilities.
- Excellent organizational skills.
- Experience in network operations is a
bonus.
- Industry experience would be a bonus
Please include in your application:
Due to security reasons please do not include any
links to Dropbox or Google Docs.
To apply, please complete our online application
form via our website:
https://www.animallogic.com/careers/jobs/locations/sydney/
Animal Logic is
recognised as one of the world’s leading independent creative digital studios,
producing award winning design, visual effects and animation for over 25 years.
With studios in Sydney and Vancouver and development offices in Sydney and Los
Angeles, Animal Logic continues to forge new partnerships and collaborations
with leading studios and filmmakers to develop and produce stories that
resonate with a global audience.
Animal Logic is
currently in production on Peter Rabbit 2
and is creating visual effects for Captain
Marvel. Recent productions include The
LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part, Peter
Rabbit, The LEGO Ninjago Movie, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
and Alien: Covenant. Other film credits include: The LEGO Movie, Avengers:
Age of Ultron, The Great Gatsby, Legend of the Guardians: The
Owls of Ga’Hoole, 300, Happy Feet and The Matrix.
Animal Logic
Entertainment (ALE) is the production arm tasked with developing a strong slate
of innovative, commercially minded, story driven projects stamped with the
visual and technical innovation that has become the hallmark of the studios’
work. The development slate, while eclectic and diverse, has a core focus on
tent pole, 4-quadrant family feature animation and hybrid projects as well as
filmmaker driven and visually arresting live action/VFX films. ALE is currently
in production on Peter Rabbit 2.
Previous projects include Peter Rabbit
and Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole.
Truant
Pictures, a subsidiary of Animal Logic, collaborates with both emerging and established
talent to develop and produce thought-provoking genre films for an
international audience. Truant Pictures operates out of Animal Logic’s
Sydney-based studio and Los Angeles office, alongside ALE.
For over 25
years, Animal Logic has remained committed to innovation, technical and
creative excellence and most importantly, creating a collaborative and
storytelling culture with a unique voice. We have BIG dreams!