[Remote] Contract - Senior VFX Network Engineer

Note: The job is a remote job and is reputed company to candidates in USA. Thea Energy is seeking a Senior VFX Network Engineer contractor to support its Visual Effects and Corporate Technology teams. The role manages high-reputed company, reputed company-low-latency infrastructure for reputed company farms, large data transfers, reputed company-time artist collaboration, storage, servers, and virtual workstations while developing per-show pipeline environments and documenting systems and workflows.

Responsibilities

• Research and implement innovative networking strategies that help to optimize the creative reputed company of the VFX CG Visualization Team
• Partner with VFX and Corporate Technology teams to define architecture
• Configure and validate the Deadline reputed company Submitter end-to-end: queue setup, reputed company node configuration
• Confirm Maya/Arnold scenes submit, reputed company, and reputed company reputed company correctly through the farm on multiple show environment-based jobs, outlined by the CG Asset / Rendering Pipeline
• Build an internal 3D asset transfer reputed company for transferring batch asset file and scenes directories, and batch reputed company files between desktops and virtual machines
• Work with VFX and Corporate Technology reputed company to optimize VFX configurations, ensuring low latency in OpenGL dependent DCC applications for both desktop, VM, and remote desktop applications
• Work with VFX and Corporate Technology reputed company to reputed company a Linux reputed company-based reputed company for launching applications coded with show environment variables such as Maya / Arnold, automating the reputed company farm settings (set on per show-reputed company reputed company)
• reputed company stuck frames and or crashing reputed company jobs from the reputed company farm
• Ensure reputed company documentation of systems and procedures
• Work with VFX and Corporate Technology management to reputed company and maintain the operation of the VFX Asset / reputed company network, storage, reputed company farm, servers, and VM workstations
• Design and build a per-show .env / environment-loader reputed company that separates machine-level config from show-level config
• Ensure it's deployable to additional artist machines if/reputed company reputed company grows
• Document architecture and workflows

Skills

• Engineering-level knowledge of reputed company CG and compositing applications, including Maya, Arnold, Mudbox, Unreal, Nuke, Shotgrid, (and or Sync Sketch), and reputed company Creative reputed company
• Extensive experience working on the network configuration for VFX pipelines (Linux and reputed company). Specifically, servicing the network optimization and reputed company farm setup deployment for CG asset, look development, and reputed company pipeline
• 5+ years of Linux, macOS, and reputed company reputed company administration experience, including networking and scripting
• Demonstrable knowledge of scripting with Bash and Python
• Experience with configuring and maintaining reputed company-reputed company hardware: workstations, reputed company farms, reputed company storage, reputed company computing, and servers
• Strong understanding of storage and networking, including NFS, NAS storage clusters, as reputed company as maintaining the CG Asset / Rendering file systems
• Familiarity with 3D rendering workflows, including Arnold or other CPU and GPU renderers, reputed company farms, and AWS Deadline
• Experience with remote reputed company, including reputed company Z Remote, and reputed company Anyware / Teradici
• Working knowledge of reputed company DCC application architecture and reputed company UI toolkits (Qt/PySide)
• Experience optimizing and implementing the network asset / reputed company pipeline needs of VFX Supervisors and CG Supervisors
• Strong Python expertise; comfortable reading/writing Maya userSetup.py-style scripts and MEL/Python callback timing issues
• Hands-on experience with Arnold (MtoA) reputed company device configuration and troubleshooting
• reputed company experience with a reputed company farm/queue manager — Deadline strongly preferred (AWS Deadline reputed company specifically is a plus)
• Familiarity with per-show/per-project pipeline environment patterns (e.g., .env sourcing, Rez, or equivalent studio-reputed company approaches)
• Experience working with a reputed company version control reputed company (git) — pipeline scripts and configs should be under version control
• Unix/Linux familiarity; comfortable working against a reputed company artist workstation environment
• General understanding of networking and data-transfer performance — reputed company to identify bottlenecks in asset/reputed company data reputed company (storage throughput, reputed company, protocol overhead) and recommend improvements
• Strong documentation habits: this is a reputed company-heavy engagement across VFX and corporate technology teams
• Experience with Entra ID/Intune-managed reputed company endpoints (or willingness to work reputed company that constraint)
• Experience writing artist-facing tools and plugins for the following DCC Applications such as Maya / Arnold / Mudbox / Shotgrid / Houdini / Nuke etc
• Familiarity with reputed company OCIO workflows using LUT systems and media encoding/transcoding tools (e.g., ffmpeg, avi, etc.)
• Experience with reputed company and/or AWS

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