About the role
Location and Work Model
- Location: Madrid
- Department: Skydance Animation Madrid – IT
- Type: Full Time
- Work Model: Hybrid
Company Overview
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. 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. Skydance offers a dynamic, inclusive, and ever-evolving culture where innovative ideas are welcomed, and growth fostered, demonstrating the partnership between unique creativity and technological advancements within each pillar of the company, anchored by a commitment to boldly entertaining and relevant storytelling.
Role Overview
As a mid Systems Administrator you will be responsible for the deployment and maintenance of the company’s infrastructure services, systems and network.
Responsibilities
- Installing, configuring and managing servers and services both cloud and on-premises.
- Installing and evaluating new software releases, system upgrades and patches.
- Maintaining and monitoring system configuration to ensure data and configuration integrity.
- Operating with the objective of having a reliable, efficient and scalable infrastructures using configuration as code methodologies.
- Collaborating across departments to evolve systems standards studio-wide.
- Collaborating with the InfoSec team on the vulnerability management.
- Performing system backups and recovery.
- Documenting and automating daily tasks.
- Participating in large system and subsystem planning.
- 3rd level of support functions, including problem isolation and resolution.
- Keeping up on current methodologies and on technology trends and tools that best suit the production and the company.
- Collaborates with other team members, when necessary.
- Follows the Supervisor’s and Lead´s guidance.
Requirements
- Experience:
- 1-3 years of professional experience in IT departments.
- Hands-on experience developing, deploying, and supporting large-scale enterprise server solutions.
- Experience in process virtualization and deployment.
- Experience with enterprise monitoring solutions.
- Experience with containers (docker / kubernetes).
- Experience with high availability systems.
- Experience in the 3D animation sector.
- Technical Skills & Tech Stack:
- Virtualization
- Public cloud (Oracle, Azure, AWS)
- Process automation and deployment
- Scripting Python/bash
- Ansible/Terraform
- Basic networking knowledge
- Languages:
- Medium-high English level required.
- Spanish desirable.