Senior System Development Engineer

Special projects may require occasional travel and non-standard work hours

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$113,000

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$240,000 USD

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Design, develop, deploy, and maintain production applications, services, and datastores

Design, deploy, and monitor cloud infrastructure that enable efficient, secure, and reliable Production workflows

Scope, manage, and implement the migration of legacy on-prem services to cloud-based infrastructure

Lead collaboration between pipeline engineers, end users, and stakeholders to create scalable and secure solutions to address problems, from proof-of-concept to deployment

Shepherd and implement all changes in an IaC deployment workflow

Monitor, refine, and optimize existing cloud service architecture and resource utilization

Sphere is looking for a Senior System Development Engineer to join the Cloud Services team under the Senior Director of Cloud Services. In this role, you will support a growing and diversifying set of ground-breaking productions; designing and deploying the infrastructure to enable and support all Studio and Production workflows and writing the services and tools that glue those workflows together.

Sphere requires innovators who are used to adventuring beyond their comfort zone to solve real production challenges in collaboration with peers, stakeholders, and end users to clear today’s hurdles while building towards a better tomorrow. The extreme level of integration between disciplines requires a balanced, creative, agile approach to be successful; being able to prioritize, communicate, and see the bigger picture are required skills.

Candidates must have a proven history of building secure and efficient cloud computing networks, environments, and software services; ideally in a large-scale VFX or post-production setting. Candidates can expect to have a range of responsibilities, including: network & firewall design and implementation, development & deployment of tools and services, artist workstation & render node deployments, high-speed storage deployment and tuning, and general system reliability monitoring.