Film VFX, UK
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There are currently vacancies in the Systems team for Systems Support positions. The roles offer the successful candidates unlimited potential to advance technical skills, offer experience with state-of-the-art technology and opportunity to learn from specialist digital media colleagues. The System Administrator works as part of a team providing for effective provisioning, installation/configuration, operation, and maintenance of systems hardware and software and related infrastructure.
The ideal candidates will have experience with Linux, Windows and Mac based systems.
Responsibilities
• Provide technical support for VFX Artists using Linux and Windows and Mac workstations.
• Configure hardware, peripherals, services, settings, directories, storage, etc. in accordance with standards and project/operational requirements.
• Taking ownership of and assist the team with various evaluation, installation, development and decommissioning projects.
• Mentoring and training junior team members.
Operations and Support
• System performance monitoring.
• Security monitoring.
• Backups and data archiving.
• User account administration.
• Application software administration.
• High level problem-solving and troubleshooting.
• Repair and recovery systems failures.
• Coordinate and communicate with impacted constituencies.
Maintenance
• Management of OS distributions.
• Perform periodic performance reporting to support capacity planning.
• Perform ongoing performance tuning, hardware upgrades, and resource optimization as required.
• Configure CPU, memory, and disk partitions as required.
• Maintain data center environmental and monitoring equipment.
Knowledge, Skills and Experience
Essential Experience
• Previous administration experience on Linux / Mac OS X / Windows based computers.
• Good working knowledge and interest in computer hardware, networking and operating systems.
• Previous systems administration experience or help desk support.
• Candidates should give examples of the level of experience with different operating systems and hardware.
• Education to degree level, or equivalent experience. Enthusiasm, interest and the ability to learn quickly and think on your feet is essential.
• Excellent communication, people skills, and team working skills.
• Accuracy and attention to detail.
• Capacity to manage a busy workload with high productivity.
Desired
• Active Directory Administration and cross-platform file sharing
• Scripting languages: bash, tcsh, perl or python.
• Enthusiasm and a commitment to learn and get involved in departmental activities.