The Role
Provides systems administration, infrastructure engineering, and technical support for a multi-site post-production environment. Maintains servers, workstations, networks, storage, virtual infrastructure, databases, security, backups, and production software. Troubleshoots incidents, improves system performance and reliability, supports video/audio signal paths, calibrates displays, installs and integrates equipment, and recommends infrastructure designs and hardware purchases. Requires Linux, macOS, and Windows expertise, scripting, high-availability systems experience, and familiarity with film, television, or post-production workflows.
Summary Generated by Built In
Business Unit: Company 3
Position: Systems Engineer
Location: Santa Monica, CA (On-Site)
Requisition Number: 1033
*Pay Range: $30.00 - $42.00 USD hourly
POSITION SUMMARY:
This position provides media and production support across a multi-site post-production environment, ensuring that artists, production teams, editorial workflows, and client-facing operations have reliable access to the systems, infrastructure, and services required to deliver work on schedule. The role combines systems administration, infrastructure engineering, and hands-on operational troubleshooting to support production-critical hardware, software, storage, networking, and media and entertainment technologies. This position is responsible for implementing, maintaining, and improving studio infrastructure; integrating and supporting third-party systems and products; and helping drive workflow reliability, performance, uptime, and technical continuity across the production environment.
MAIN DUTIES:
The Systems Engineer will leverage internal tools, monitoring platforms, and operational utilities to maintain visibility into studio infrastructure availability, utilization, performance, and service health. They will maintain high digital security standards required in a post-production environment and develop and maintain clear operational procedures for routine system administration, support escalation, and production-impacting workflows. They will also be responsible for the following:
WHAT YOU BRING:
The ideal candidate will have advanced knowledge of Linux server and desktop environments, as well as solid knowledge of MacOS and Windows platforms. They will bring programming or scripting experience with at least one of Python, Bash, C/C++, Java or similar, and have experience building and operating high availability and high scalability computing systems. They will also be experienced working in Film, TV, and/or the post-production industry with knowledge of Resolve, Avid and Adobe products. Additional desired skills include:
ABOUT THE COMPANY:
Company 3, including its various business units and family of brands, provides a full range of Creative Services for content creators, including conceptual design, pre-vis, look development, ideation and rapid prototyping, 3D animation/CGI, motion graphics/designers, matte painting, compositing, dailies and production services, color grading, post-production finishing, marketing/trailers, live-action production, experiences, and more.
Diversity and Inclusion at Company 3:
Creativity has diversity at its core. We celebrate the value of each unique experience by being dedicated to fostering the most diverse, equitable, and inclusive culture where every employee feels empowered and safe to show up to work as their full self.
It is our policy to provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees. Please inform the Company's HR representative if you need assistance completing any forms or otherwise need any accommodation or support in order to participate in the application process.
*The listed pay range represents the lowest to highest range that we in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. This range may be modified in the future. An employee’s pay position within the range may be based on several factors including, but limited to, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, geographic location, local currency exchange rates, performance, shift, travel requirements, sales or revenue-based metrics, applicable law, and business or organizational needs.
The benefits for eligible part-time employees working 25 or more hours per week and full-time employees in the US include a comprehensive package of health, retirement, and insurance benefits and paid time off. The benefits for eligible project hires and part-time employees working less than 25 hours per week in the US include retirement, select insurance benefits, and where required by law, health benefits. For roles filled in Canada and other territories, local benefits plan offerings as adopted and amended from time to time will apply.
The above compensation and benefits information is provided in accordance with various state, provincial, and local pay transparency laws.
This position is for an existing vacancy. Both external and internal candidates can apply for this role through the Company’s Career Page. The Company generally only contacts those individuals who have submitted an application which it wishes to interview. The application window for this position is expected to close by January 8, 2027.
Position: Systems Engineer
Location: Santa Monica, CA (On-Site)
Requisition Number: 1033
*Pay Range: $30.00 - $42.00 USD hourly
POSITION SUMMARY:
This position provides media and production support across a multi-site post-production environment, ensuring that artists, production teams, editorial workflows, and client-facing operations have reliable access to the systems, infrastructure, and services required to deliver work on schedule. The role combines systems administration, infrastructure engineering, and hands-on operational troubleshooting to support production-critical hardware, software, storage, networking, and media and entertainment technologies. This position is responsible for implementing, maintaining, and improving studio infrastructure; integrating and supporting third-party systems and products; and helping drive workflow reliability, performance, uptime, and technical continuity across the production environment.
MAIN DUTIES:
The Systems Engineer will leverage internal tools, monitoring platforms, and operational utilities to maintain visibility into studio infrastructure availability, utilization, performance, and service health. They will maintain high digital security standards required in a post-production environment and develop and maintain clear operational procedures for routine system administration, support escalation, and production-impacting workflows. They will also be responsible for the following:
- Administer and support servers, workstations, network services, storage platforms, virtual infrastructure, databases, user accounts, licensing services, email technologies, firewalls, internet connectivity, backup systems, and other production-critical technology services. Provide timely user support and troubleshooting for artists, production operators, editorial teams, and business stakeholders.
- Analyze, tune, and improve systems for performance, throughput, resource utilization, high availability, scalability, and reliable operation in support of production schedules and media workflows.
- Evaluate system components, software platforms, networking infrastructure, hardware peripherals, and media technology solutions for reliability, performance, scalability, security, production readiness, and long-term operational fit.
- Calibrate, maintain, and support monitors, projectors, and review-room display systems both on-site and off-site to meet studio, client, and color-critical viewing standards.
- Install, support, troubleshoot, and help design video and audio systems used in post-production, including signal routing, signal conversion, review-room technology, machine-room infrastructure, and related media support environments.
- Perform equipment installation, rack integration, cabling, patching, labeling, testing, and physical infrastructure support as needed to maintain reliable production and engineering environments.
- Evaluate business requirements and make recommendations on systems design and hardware purchases to fulfill business needs.
- Installation, configuration, administration, and operational support of production systems
- Core network service administration, including Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, NFS, SMB, and related identity or access services
- Hardware integration, deployment, lifecycle support, and troubleshooting for workstations, servers, storage, and media systems
- Software installation, configuration, patching, licensing, and support for production and engineering applications
- Configuration management, automation, and repeatable deployment workflows using tools such as Ansible
- Network support, including switch administration, VLAN management, connectivity troubleshooting, and production network reliability
- Incident response, escalation, remediation, documentation, and follow-through for production-impacting issues
- Security support, access control, compliance awareness, and protection of production and client-facing environments
- Calibration and technical support of monitors, projectors, and other color-critical display systems
- Video and audio signal path support and design, including SDI, ST 2110, routing, signal conversion, and related media infrastructure
- Linux, open-source package, and workstation or server environment setup, extension, and support
WHAT YOU BRING:
The ideal candidate will have advanced knowledge of Linux server and desktop environments, as well as solid knowledge of MacOS and Windows platforms. They will bring programming or scripting experience with at least one of Python, Bash, C/C++, Java or similar, and have experience building and operating high availability and high scalability computing systems. They will also be experienced working in Film, TV, and/or the post-production industry with knowledge of Resolve, Avid and Adobe products. Additional desired skills include:
- Experience with Proxmox PvE
- Knowledge of SQL databases: MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB
- Ability and desire to learn new technologies as required
- Ability to solve problems unsupervised and recommend proactive technical solutions
- Positive can-do attitude combined with the ability to work under pressure to meet deadlines
- Excellent communication and organizational skills with strong attention to detail
- Experience related to disaster recovery, business continuity, backup systems, tape libraries, SAN, and NAS knowledge
- Knowledge of DaVinci Resolve, Baselight and Flame software
- Knowledge of Calman is a plus
- MacOS deployment strategies is a plus
ABOUT THE COMPANY:
Company 3, including its various business units and family of brands, provides a full range of Creative Services for content creators, including conceptual design, pre-vis, look development, ideation and rapid prototyping, 3D animation/CGI, motion graphics/designers, matte painting, compositing, dailies and production services, color grading, post-production finishing, marketing/trailers, live-action production, experiences, and more.
Diversity and Inclusion at Company 3:
Creativity has diversity at its core. We celebrate the value of each unique experience by being dedicated to fostering the most diverse, equitable, and inclusive culture where every employee feels empowered and safe to show up to work as their full self.
It is our policy to provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees. Please inform the Company's HR representative if you need assistance completing any forms or otherwise need any accommodation or support in order to participate in the application process.
*The listed pay range represents the lowest to highest range that we in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. This range may be modified in the future. An employee’s pay position within the range may be based on several factors including, but limited to, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, geographic location, local currency exchange rates, performance, shift, travel requirements, sales or revenue-based metrics, applicable law, and business or organizational needs.
The benefits for eligible part-time employees working 25 or more hours per week and full-time employees in the US include a comprehensive package of health, retirement, and insurance benefits and paid time off. The benefits for eligible project hires and part-time employees working less than 25 hours per week in the US include retirement, select insurance benefits, and where required by law, health benefits. For roles filled in Canada and other territories, local benefits plan offerings as adopted and amended from time to time will apply.
The above compensation and benefits information is provided in accordance with various state, provincial, and local pay transparency laws.
This position is for an existing vacancy. Both external and internal candidates can apply for this role through the Company’s Career Page. The Company generally only contacts those individuals who have submitted an application which it wishes to interview. The application window for this position is expected to close by January 8, 2027.
Skills Required
- Advanced knowledge of Linux server and desktop environments
- Solid knowledge of macOS and Windows platforms
- Programming or scripting experience with at least one of Python, Bash, C, C++, Java, or similar
- Experience building and operating highly available and scalable computing systems
- Experience working in film, television, and/or post-production
- Knowledge of Resolve, Avid, and Adobe products
- Experience with Proxmox VE
- Knowledge of MySQL, PostgreSQL, and/or MongoDB databases
- Experience with disaster recovery, business continuity, backup systems, tape libraries, SAN, and NAS
- Knowledge of DaVinci Resolve, Baselight, and Flame
- Knowledge of Calman
- macOS deployment strategy experience
- Ability to solve problems independently and recommend proactive technical solutions
- Excellent communication, organizational, and detail-oriented skills
Company 3 Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Company 3 and has not been reviewed or approved by Company 3.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is presented as part of a comprehensive package for eligible full‑time staff and part‑time employees working 25+ hours per week. Local plans are provided outside the U.S., with specifics varying by territory.
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Retirement Support — Retirement benefits are included for eligible full‑time staff and 25+ hour part‑time employees. Project hires and sub‑25‑hour part‑time employees also receive retirement plus select insurance.
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Inclusive Benefits Coverage — Eligibility extends beyond full‑time roles to certain part‑time and project‑based employees. This tiered structure broadens access across employment types and locations.
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The Company
What We Do
Company 3 is a comprehensive postproduction facility for features, episodic, commercials, and music videos with locations in Los Angeles, New York, London, Atlanta, Toronto, Vancouver and Pune. Known for its creative color artistry, pioneering technology, and global reach, Company 3 is trusted to deliver a quality product every time. It is home to one of the largest and most talented pools of colorists and visual effects artists working in post-production today with a client list that includes many of the most respected and talented film and entertainment professionals in the industry. Company 3 offers solutions-based services ranging from color correction, Digital Intermediate (DI), and file-based workflows to visual effects and online services. Through its virtual outposts, Company 3 Colorists are available to clients around the world.
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