Senior Systems Engineer

Location: London, UK

Please note, you must have the right to work in the UK, for your application to be considered. Although, we try to respond to all applications, however due to the high volume of applications that we receive, we are unable to respond to all candidates that are unsuccessful. Thank you for your interest in CO3.

Overview & Responsibilities:
In this role, you will be an Engineer within the Production IT team in the support of 24x7x365 production operations at CO3 facilities in the UK. You will also be responsible for ensuring the health and optimum operating capability of the production infrastructure employed at the CO3 facilities.
As a part of the Production IT team, your role will require constant engagement and regular cross-departmental involvement, including off-site and conference calls with our colleagues and clients both locally and overseas. You will also assist with all relevant developments within these areas of our business.
You will work closely with all operational departments and production teams and get exposure to meetings helping to develop requirements for workflow or projects. You will get exposure to the business and be a point of contact for technical queries relating to the production infrastructure.
You will have day-to-day engagement with the Production Engineering team, including 1st line technical support to operational teams, out-of-hours on-call support and delivery of project-based tasks associated with the production network and vast exposure to multiple production networks.
Experience:

• Degree in relevant technical field or the equivalent work experience.
• Working knowledge or interest in production SAN and NAS systems.
• Working knowledge or interest in GPFS.
• Working knowledge or interest in Electronic Delivery systems.
• Support of software licenses associated with the production network and peripheral devices.
• Support of DMZ, Internal and external Electronic Delivery systems.
• Support of Active Directory and VMware administration.
• Support of data management, backup and archive systems, methodologies and future migration.
• Manage and control installation, configuration and systems documentation with best practice procedures.
• Collaborate with internal and external teams in future technology developments and drive the successful introduction of new technologies in accordance with business needs.
• Demonstrable understanding and keen interest of Linux operating systems (e.g. CentOS, Red Hat, Ubuntu).
• Demonstrable understanding of fundamental networking/distributed computing environment concepts; including TCP/IP connections, firewalls, ACL, VLANs, DNS, Load balancing.
• Python scripting and development.

Technology Key Skills:

• SAN/NAS methodology and file systems.
• Fibre channel networking and switching fabrics
• Ethernet LAN, MAN, WAN Networking
• Resolve Grading / Flame Finishing / Protools
• Active Directory
• VMware
• Diagnostic monitoring and administration

Business Systems Knowledge:

• Microsoft Windows 10
• Windows 2012 – 2018 Server
• RedHat, CentOS Linux
• Mac OSX

Working Conditions:

• 40 hour working week
• Working week is typically Mon-Fri, however due to the nature of the job you may need to work some evenings or weekends when required.

About the Company:
Company 3 / Method Studios provides a full range of Creative Services for content creators, including conceptual design, pre-vis, look development, ideation and rapid prototyping, 3D animation/CGI, motion graphics/designers, matte painting, compositing, dailies and production services, color grading, post-production finishing, marketing/trailers, live-action production, experiences, and more.
Diversity and Inclusion at Company 3:
Creativity has diversity at its core. We celebrate the value of each unique experience by being dedicated to fostering the most diverse, equitable and inclusive culture where every employee feels empowered and safe to show up to work as their full self.
It is our policy to provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees. Please inform the company's HR representative if you need assistance completing any forms or to otherwise participate in the application process.

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