Junior System Administrator - Luma Pictures - Santa Monica

Are you a Junior System Administrator?

Luma is a leading visual effects studio that has worked on tons of blockbuster films like Ant Man, Guardians of the Galaxy, and Prometheus as well as Academy Award-winning films including Crash, True Grit and No Country for Old Men. We are a crew of talented artists that hail from all over the world, who are passionate about creating mind blowing work. On top of that, we are a cool company, with cool people, cool offices, and we do cool things. Can’t beat that!

If you’re down to become part of a growing family, we’d love to hear more from you.

The ideal candidate will be able to contribute to many aspects of our production network; including user support, OS management and scripting.

Responsibilities
Manage and troubleshoot hardware and software issues on user workstations running Mac, Linux, and occasionally Windows.
Assist with misc. items, such as power issues, building issues, and other general issues
Ethernet cabling, power cabling, server setups and take downs, and deployments
Run diagnostic programs to resolve problems
Deploying workstations, render nodes, and servers for production use
Acting as a first point of contact for user issues

Qualifications
Knowledge of OSX, CentOS/RHEL, Fedora
Knowledge of and experience with networking concepts
Proactive, curious, energetic, troubleshooter
Strong desire and ability to learn and apply new knowledge and techniques
Able to lift a server or other similarly weighted item from time to time, independently
Ability to troubleshoot without guidance for hardware, software, and networking issues
Must be willing and able to relocate if necessary

Pluses
Familiar with visual effects facility pipelines or similar

If this is you, apply here!