Render Manager/ Technical Assistant

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Job Summary

The Render Manager / Technical Assistant will be responsible for managing the delivery of data to and from production, monitoring and managing the farm priorities, and monitor file-system resources, as well as supporting and helping the teams solve technical issues and production blockers.

What We Need

• Provide assistance as the first level of escalation for technical issues.
• Set and balance the daily tasks for rendering in conjunction with production needs.
• Maintain communication with production to identify priorities and provide regular updates on all outstanding requests.
• Ensure the smooth delivery of final rendered CG elements.
• Act as main point of contact for production specific render needs.
• Escalate issues with Lighting team and Pipeline TD’s; help debug and troubleshooting issues.
• Collaborate with Pipeline and IT on the rendering hardware and software issues.
• Collaborate with Pipeline and IT over the file-system resources, quotas, cleanup, disk-space projections and backups.
• Manage and monitor performance, quality, and completeness of render work.

Your Experience, Talents and Abilities:

• 1+ years experience in a CG production environment.
• Experience of backup & archiving processes within a major visual effect or animation studio is a plus.
• Eligible to work in B.C.
• Experience with data transfer applications like Aspera or Signiant are a plus.
• Strong work ethic, and the ability to take direction is essential.
• Familiarity with scripting languages (eg. Perl, Python) is a plus.
• Desire to provide excellent support in a production environment.
• Understanding of render process is a plus; specifically GPU render-engines such as Redshift.
• Familiarity with most basic system administration tools and processes.
• Experience working with render-farms such as Deadline, Qube or Tractor are a plus.
• Excellent troubleshooting and documentation skills.
• Linux experience or familiarity (proficiency with basic tools) is a plus.

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