System Administrator-Luma Pictures-Santa Monica

Are you a 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; Academy Award-winning films including Crash, True Grit and No Country for Old Men; and numerous commercials such as A Mini Marvel for Coke which aired during Super Bowl 50. 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 from you.

Responsibilities
-The precise tasks can vary depending on what you bring to the table, but some of the outstanding responsibilities are:
-Manage and troubleshoot hardware and software issues on user workstations running Linux or OSX
-BASH and/or Python scripting to increase production in our area of supporting the artists
-Assisting with other items such as power issues, building issues and other general issues
-Deploying workstations, rendernodes and servers for production use
-First point of contact for user issues

Qualifications
-Advanced knowledge of Fedora, CentOS/RHEL and OSX including software management and deployment
-Advance knowledge of and experience with networking concepts and network implementations including routing, VLANs, firewalls, traffic inspection
-Advance knowledge of DBS, LDAP, HTTPS, FTP, SSH, VNC and other common protocols
-Knowledge of Data Backup concepts and software (Netvault, BAcula etc)
-Extremely proficient with gnu/linux rpm-based distributions
-Ability to lead in advanced troubleshooting without guidance for hardware, software and networking issues
-Advance knowledge of hardware RAID, software RAID, lvm, ext3/4, NFS
-Advanced knowledge of linux network commands including NetworkManager, host, nslookup, dig, ifconfig, ip, route, netstat, ping, iptables etc.
-Solid understanding of packet flow, tcp and udp transmissions
-Advanced knowledge of sysv, init scripts and startup and login process for linux and osx systems
-Advanced knowledge of virtualization concepts and implementations
-Knowledge of rpm repository mirroring and rpmbuild for custom repos
-Advanced knowledge of security concepts including best practice and auditing
-Knowledge of VPN technologies including site-to-site VPN tunnels
-Puppet management system knowledge
-Ability to manage large data sets / projects
-Customer service experience

Pluses
-Advanced knowledge of xenserver administration including p2v
-Knowledge of openldap
-Familiar with visual effects shops, pipelines or simliar
-Experience with squid or other hardware ssl proxy web filters
-Wireless networking experience
-Video card experience (drivers, troubleshooting, Xorg, etc)
-Mcollective, Cobbler, Jenkins knowledge
-FortiGate/FortiAP experience
-HP Procurve experience
-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

If this sounds like you, apply on our website: http://www.lumapictures.com/job-detail/?job_id=929c386e-65e5-4fa2-a690-43fa694d9a9a&lever-source=tech-artists