Technology openings at Walt Disney Animation Studios!

Walt Disney Animation Studios combines the very best in artistry and
storytelling with cutting-edge technology to bring wonderful new
characters to the big screen for audiences around the world. Constantly
challenged to create innovative new technologies for animated features,
theme park productions and special projects for the Walt Disney Studios,
Disney Animation is home to some of the most talented artists and
technologists working in the film industry today. 

We have immediate openings for:
CG Software Tools Manager
Systems Engineer - Archive & Backups
Systems Engineer - Production Engineering

All openings are at our Burbank, CA studio. Please see below for more
information and how to apply.

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Walt Disney Animation Studios
CG Software Tools Manager

The CG Software Tools Manager works closely with Artists and Technical
Directors to research, design, and develop in-house software tools to
solve production issues and make productions more efficient. This is a
technical manager position requiring both software development project
leadership experience and the proven ability to hire, train, and support
developers of all experience levels. Candidates should have 7 plus years
of software development experience, including 2 plus years in leadership
roles. The general responsibilities of this position are:

- Overall technical vision, roadmap & direction for team of 15 to 20
- Overall resource allocation for 10 to 15 simultaneous and ongoing
projects/products
- Effectively manage and balance 50/50 spit of maintenance and new
feature development as per Studio priorities
- Continue to build an effective development organization by mentoring
and leadership as well as hire/fire/review responsibility
- Career development of each member of the team including meeting
regularly with employees
- Conducting performance reviews of team members
- Responsible for creating group budgets and financial tracking of
projects
- Works closely with other Technology Managers to ensure efficient
communication of team objectives
- Work closely with Production Managers to ensure high level objectives
are clearly understood and communicated
- Ensuring excellence in group is acknowledged and rewarded

This role also requires an overall understanding of the tools and
workflows used to create digitally animated feature films. A successful
candidate will have experience with development that used most, if not
all of the following:

Unix/Linux
C++, Python
Maya, Mel
Renderman DSO's
Renderman Shader language
Object Oriented Design

Candidates should have a Bachelor's in Computer Science, Computer
Engineering, Electrical Engineering or other related field; Master's
preferred.

To apply, please send resume and cover letter to tech.jobs-P5ys19MLBK/[email protected]
and please include "SWTMgr" in the subject line.

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Walt Disney Animation Studios
Systems Engineer
Archiving and Backups Team

The Systems Engineer will be responsible for the design, implementation
and troubleshooting of broad, complex systems applications and core
infrastructure solutions relating to data management and high
performance computing for animated movie production. The Systems
Engineer will work with Production and Technology on profiling of the
production pipeline and performance tuning and as it relates to Data
Services. This will include analysis of existing backup/restore,
disaster recovery and archiving systems and identifying opportunities
for process improvement.  The Systems Engineer will also work with
production, systems and outside vendors to design and implement a
centralized image archive library based on Disney Animation requirements
and best practices.

Duties:
*Design, implementation and troubleshooting of systems applications and
core infrastructure solutions
*Develops new specifications and strategies as needed to support a
rapidly changing environment.
*Works with technical managers & leads and production leads and oversees
teams that implement solutions. 
*Sustains an overview of long-term requirements and maintains the
long-term vision for systems and services that they have designed and
supported. *Constantly monitors and adjusts strategy to take advantage
of advancements in the industry.
*Supports and helps to train personnel in new technological
advancements.
*Maintains/ensures system redundancy and reliability.
*Act as Tier III support for all issues in their related fields.	
*Provides detailed technical specifications, timelines with deliverables
and regular status reports to Manager & VP Systems.

Qualifications:
*Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical
Engineering, related field or equivalent work experience
*4+ years UNIX/Linux systems engineering experience in complex
heterogeneous environments
*Well developed programming and scripting skills including C, C++, Perl,
Python
*Expertise in high performance, high density, high availability storage
systems (Petabytes)

Experience with the following preferred:
*Veritas Netbackup (now Symantec) automated backup/restore software
*Storage Tek (STK), ADIC and other robotic tape systems
*Rimage CD/DVD burning and printing systems 
*Pioneer and other DVD reader/jukeboxes
*Network Appliance Nearstore/Snapvault

To apply, please send resume and cover letter to tech.jobs-P5ys19MLBK/[email protected]
and please include "Systems Engineer-AB" in the subject line.
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Walt Disney Animation Studios
Systems Engineer
Production Engineering Team

The UNIX Systems Engineer will have a focus on core UNIX Services and
programming in support of animated movie production.

Responsibilities:
*Programming tools for core services in C++, perl and python
*UNIX Server design and administration including IMAP, LDAP, Sendmail,
DNS, NIS, Samba, Syslog, CUPS, etc.
*Design, administration and tuning of a high-performance Linux computing
environment.
*System automation through the use of scripting.

Requirements:
*Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems,
Engineering, Computer Graphics, related field or equivalent experience
*4+ years experience managing large-scale UNIX environments
*Strong understanding of core networking concepts including TCP/IP and
NFS
*Experience working with Linux package management systems such as 'rpm'
and 'yum'
*Well developed programming and scripting skills including C++, Perl and
Python

To apply, please send resume and cover letter to tech.jobs-P5ys19MLBK/[email protected]
and please include "Systems Engineer-PE" in the subject line.
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The Walt Disney Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Thanks!

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