Responsibilities
- Apply DevOps principles to an existing, production-critical IT environment, balancing modernization with stability
- Design, implement, and operate a global Linux ecosystem supporting workstations, servers, and animation production pipelines
- Partner with Pipeline, Production, and Technology teams to introduce infrastructure-as-code, automation standards, and repeatable deployment patterns
- Identify high-value manual, error-prone, or inconsistent operational processes and replace them with automated solutions using Terraform, Ansible, and Python
- Architect, provision, and maintain infrastructure across AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and OCI, including compute, storage, networking, and virtualization
- Own end-to-end technical designs for infrastructure projects, including prioritization, implementation, documentation, and operational handoff
- Maintain a deep understanding of studio workflows and collaborate with Production Technology to evolve systems alongside production needs
- Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines; guide development teams toward reliable build, test, and deployment practices
- Define and promote best-in-class CI/CD, source control, and branching strategies in collaboration with Engineering and Security teams
- Design, operate, and maintain render farm infrastructure, with a focus on configuration management and performance monitoring
- Present technical options to leadership, including architectural trade-offs, cost analysis, and risk considerations
- Act as a technical advocate for automation, observability, and reliability across IT and production-facing teams
- Participate in a 24×7 production on-call rotation, focusing on root-cause analysis and long-term remediation
- Mentor junior engineers and help raise the overall operational maturity of the IT organization
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience as a DevOps Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer, or equivalent role supporting production systems
- Strong hands-on experience with infrastructure automation and configuration management (Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, or similar)
- Proficiency in scripting and programming for systems integration and automation (Python required; Bash, Go, or similar preferred)
- End-to-end experience designing and operating CI/CD pipelines in production environments
- Demonstrated experience architecting and operating infrastructure in one or more major cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP, and/or OCI)
- Solid Linux systems administration experience, including application deployment, service troubleshooting, and containerized workloads
- Experience operating and supporting source control platforms (e.g., GitHub), including branching and release workflows
- Hands-on experience with containerization and Kubernetes-based platforms in production environments
- Strong communication skills with the ability to clearly explain technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Proven problem-solving ability and a pragmatic approach to operational reliability
Nice to Have
- Experience with identity and access management systems, including MFA providers (Okta, Duo) and authentication protocols (LDAP, Active Directory, SAML, OAuth), a plus
- Working knowledge of NFS and SMB file protocols across Linux, macOS, and Windows environments, including performance and reliability considerations, a plus
- Experience operating file transfer and content distribution systems (e.g., Box, Dropbox, OneDrive, Signiant, Aspera, FTP, Filerunner), a plus
- Prior experience in animation, visual effects, or media and entertainment environments, a plus
How You’ll Be Successful
- Reduce manual, ad-hoc infrastructure changes by replacing them with reproducible, automated workflows
- Increase consistency and reliability across environments without disrupting active production
- Improve system observability, debuggability, and operational confidence through better tooling and standards
- Deliver incremental modernization that leaves systems more maintainable than you found them
- Build trust with engineers, pipeline, and production teams by shipping practical improvements that solve real problems
- Raise the overall DevOps maturity of the IT organization through example, documentation, and mentorship
Top Skills
What We Do
About Skydance Media
Skydance is a diversified media company founded by David Ellison in 2010 to create high quality, event-level entertainment for global audiences. The Company brings to life stories of immersive worlds across its feature film, television, and interactive platforms. Its feature films include Mission: Impossible - Fallout, Annihilation, LIFE, Jack Reacher: Never Go Back, Star Trek Beyond, Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation, Terminator Genisys, World War Z, Star Trek Into Darkness, G.I. Joe: Retaliation, Jack Reacher, Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, and True Grit. Skydance’s upcoming film releases include Top Gun: Maverick, Gemini Man, The Old Guard, 6 Underground and the nwe untitled Terminator film. In 2017, Skydance formed an animation division to develop and produce a slate of high-end feature films and television series in partnership with Spain’s Ilion Animation Studios. Skydance Television launched in 2013. Its current slate includes Emmy-nominated Grace and Frankie on Netflix, Altered Carbon on Netflix, Jack Ryan on Amazon, and Condor on AT&T Audience Network. Skydance Interactive launched in 2016 to create and publish original and IP-based virtual reality experiences and video games. Skydance Interactive recently debuted its first original title – Archangel, a story-driven VR shooter.
About Skydance Interactive
Skydance Interactive creates and publishes original and IP-based virtual reality games. The division of Skydance Media was launched in 2016 through the acquisition of The Workshop Entertainment. Skydance Interactive’s first VR offering is Archangel, launched on July 18th 2017. Skydance Interactive in 2017 partnered with Skybound Entertainment to develop a number of original virtual reality video games based on the expansive world of The Walking Dead universe. The Walking Dead VR game will be the inaugural co-developed title from both companies. The studio is located in Marina del Rey, CA.
About Animation
In 2017, Skydance formed an animation division to develop and produce a slate of high-end feature films and television series in partnership with Spain’s Ilion Animation Studios. Skydance’s first three animated features are Luck, Split (working title), and Powerless (working title). Luck, directed by Alessandro Carloni (Kung Fu Panda 3) and written by Jonathan Aibel & Glenn Berger, is a comedy that pulls back the curtain on the millennia-old battle between the organizations of good luck and bad luck that secretly
