DevOps engineer / Release engineer

Requirements

• 5+ years in VFX or animation industries.
• 3+ years in the animation industry.
• High English level
• Spanish desirable
• Undergraduate degree in Computer Science, Computer Graphics, or comparable discipline and/or technical and creative knowledge gained through equivalent experience
• Excellent communication and customer service skills, both verbal and written
• Ability to work independently while balancing multiple competing priorities
• Understanding of CI/CD concepts and workflows
• Experience with Git, Gitlab or GitHub, Docker
• Experience with Linux operating systems
• Proficiency with Python scripting language
• Experience building compiled open-source products
• Experience in debugging compile time, runtime, and configuration error
• Preferred / Bonus Qualifications
• Familiarity with plugin or pipeline development in major DCC tools (e.g., Maya, Houdini, Nuke).

Additional Information

Skydance offers a dynamic, inclusive, and ever-evolving culture where innovative ideas are welcomed, and growth fostered. The partnership between unique creativity and technological advancements are demonstrated within each pillar of the company. At the heart of it all is a commitment to boldly entertaining and relevant storytelling. While all Animation studios look to hire people who are creative and hard-working, Skydance Animation is specifically looking for pioneers who seek to push the limits of what the world's most collaborative art form can achieve, and to give those pioneers the space and the resources to build a new studio that's doing something different. For more information on how we process your personal information, please review the Privacy policy located at https://privacy.paramount.com/recruitment-privacy-notice. --- As a DevOps engineer/ Release engineer in Production Technology, you'll be responsible for maintaining and improving the studio's Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) infrastructure for Skydance's new global pipeline, managing software releases to Production, and supporting both pipeline developers and Production TDs. The role also involves developing technical solutions to CI/CD challenges and enhancing the tools and CI/CD framework used to release and configure internal and third-party CGI software. The ideal candidate has strong experience with complex dependencies and environments, managing software release cycles, building CI/CD pipelines across multiple show environments with varying risk tolerances, excellent communication skills, and the ability to quickly learn new workflows. 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, interactive, and animation divisions. Recruitment Fraud Alert It has come to our attention that there may be fraudulent activity by individuals impersonating our Talent Acquisition team. Skydance will only contact you from an official "@skydance.com" email address. If you suspect that you are being contacted by an unauthorized person or believe that the correspondence you have received is suspicious, please do not click on any links or attachments in such emails and submit any questions or concerns to our information security team at https://skydance.com/report-suspected-fraud/.

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