Senior Pipeline Technical Director

Description

Responsibilities

• Develops pipeline tools and workflows to enable artist efficiency and meet production demands. 

• Maintains existing workflows and tools.

• Provides front-line support for a variety of disciplines, helps troubleshoot assets and shots and general problems-solving for artists. Monitors support requests.

• Manages and monitors storage and render resources for the efficient utilization of production resources.

• Deploys and manages software and hardware needs for the pipeline and studio.

• Collaborates effectively with artists, production management, leads and technical staff to ensure workflow efficiency and productivity.

• Documents workflow, processes and tools that enable technical staff and artists to keep up-to-date and share knowledge. 

Required Skills

• Demonstrated experience in supporting and developing production pipeline tools.

• Strong scripting and programming skills (e.g. Python, C++)

• Strong understanding of computer science and software development principles (e.g. Data structures and Algorithms, Design Patterns, OOP and SOLID principles.)

• Comfort with agile, unit-testing and test driven development workflows

• Experience using revision control and continuous deployment systems (GIT, Jenkins)

• Knowledge of clean code development, unit tests and continuous deployment is preferred.

• Data management and reporting skills. 

• Experience with production storage and render managements systems. (e.g. EMC, Net-App, Deadline, Cube, Amazon Web Services, etc.)

• Experience in systems and IT operations for both Linux, Windows and Mac OS.  

Preferred Skills

• Grasp of automation tools (e.g. Ansible, SaltStack, Puppet, MDT, etc.)