Teams at Skydance Media

Develops, maintains, and supports character, facial, body, prop, and mechanical deformation rigs for animation, layout, and crowds. Collaborates with R&D, art, modeling, layout, and animation teams; troubleshoots rig issues; implements procedural rig components and custom tools; sculpts expressions; incorporates artistic feedback; and prototypes techniques for production challenges. Provides guidance to team members and delivers production-ready work according to pipeline and quality standards.

Architects, deploys, maintains, secures, and automates Linux-based services for an animation studio. Develops provisioning and management tools, promotes programmatic service deployment, documents operating procedures, ensures high service uptime, establishes studio-wide systems standards, and supports team development. Requires experience with Ansible, RHEL, Bash or PowerShell, DevOps methodologies, virtualization, deployment processes, and 3D animation environments.

Deploys, maintains, monitors, and supports cloud and on-premises infrastructure, servers, networks, and services. Responsibilities include upgrades, patching, backups, recovery, configuration integrity, automation, documentation, vulnerability management, high availability, and third-level technical support. The role collaborates across departments to establish infrastructure standards and participates in system planning while applying configuration-as-code and infrastructure automation practices.