Senior System Engineer - Chennai, India - Tag

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    Tag Chennai, India

    3 weeks ago

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    Description

    At Tag, we help brands stand out and sell more by delivering impactful content, at speed and scale and across channels & geographies. With over fifty years of production experience for some of the world's biggest brands, we partner with our clients to create work that is efficient, effective and more importantly tells a story.

    We believe that the combination of different ideas, experience, backgrounds, and skillsets create a great place to work. We pride ourselves on an authentic culture built around our core values of integrity, innovation, sustainability, growth, and accountability. We are committed to promoting an inclusive, equitable and diverse culture. Our global DE&I committee and our leadership team have committed to increasing representation, education, and accountability across the entire business to create positive change from the ground up and the top down.

    But do not just take our word for it We are proud to have recently won awards for Best Culture, Production Agency of the Year and Outstanding SME in Gender Equality, Family Status Equality and Racial Equality and Inclusion. Check out to learn more.

    WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

    The successful candidate will have extensive, practical experience administering Windows, Linux and Mac systems, both desktop and server in the post production industry.

    The role will include a mixture of BAU activities, supporting our existing infrastructure, and new projects, where we are growing our team, and moving into the cloud where appropriate.

    WHAT YOU OFFER US

    • Maintain a wide range of systems, including physical, virtual and cloud machines
    • Building trust and relationships with technical and non-technical users to understand their needs and pain points and deliver practical solutions
    • Develop broad knowledge of software, systems, and standards and conventions used in production.
    • Work with related technical teams including security, EUC, networks and core infrastructure
    • Update documentation for the pipeline and tools to reflect any changes that are made.

    GREAT TO HAVE

    • 5+ years experience as an engineer in post production
    • Experience deploying and supporting a render farm with linux render nodes (preferably Thinkbox Deadline), with common DCCs (Maya, Max, Houdini, Nuke) and renderers (Arnold, V-Ray, Redshift)
    • Extensive, demonstratable experience as sysadmin on Linux and/or Windows, focused on supporting VFX workflows
    • Experience with containerised software (e.g. docker) and orchestration tools
    • Knowledge and recent experience of cloud (AWS) and cloud studio solutions
    • Work at high levels of technical complexity, under operational pressures
    • Ability to work both alone and as part of a team, and to remain calm under pressure
    • A positive, enthusiastic manner with an ability to work effectively with all stakeholders
    • Capable of delegating and distributing tasks to others in the team
    • Ability to prioritise workload and meet tight deadlines

    LOCATION

    • Chennai it is

    TIMINGS

    • We work on 9-hour shifts that change depending on the regions you are working with and at the discretion of your line manager