Senior Linux Administrator

Skydance Animation; Madrid; On-site; EUR 52,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Skydance Animation seeks a DevOps-oriented engineer to advance automation and provisioning across our production environments. The role emphasizes building tools, standard operating procedures, and cross-team collaboration to ensure high uptime and scalable systems in a fast-evolving animation studio.

Candidates should have strong Bash/PowerShell scripting skills, experience with Ansible and RHEL, and a solid grasp of DevOps practices.

Qualifications

• Experience in DevOps environments and methodologies.
• Experience with Ansible and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL).
• Scripting skills in Bash or PowerShell.
• Understanding of process automation and deployment.

Responsibilities

• Keeps up on current methodologies and technology trends and tools for production and company.
• Builds and documents tools to automate service provisioning and management.
• Operates with the goal of making programmatic provisioning of services the default.
• Defines and detail standard operating procedures.
• Ensures peak service uptime.
• Collaborates across departments to evolve systems standards studio-wide.
• Mentors team members and provides guidance and instruction for professional growth.

Skills

DevOps

Ansible

RHEL

Bash/PowerShell

Process automation

English

Virtualization

3D animation industry knowledge

Job description

Skydance offers a dynamic, inclusive, and ever-evolving culture where innovative ideas are welcomed, and growth fostered. The partnership between unique creativity and technological advancements are demonstrated within each pillar of the company. At the heart of it all is a commitment to boldly entertaining and relevant storytelling.

While all Animation studios look to hire people who are creative and hard-working, Skydance Animation is specifically looking for pioneers who seek to push the limits of what the world’s most collaborative art form can achieve, and to give those pioneers the space and the resources to build a new studio that’s doing something different.

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Responsibilities

• Keeps up on current methodologies and technology trends and tools that best suit the production and the company.
• Builds and documents tools to automate service provisioning and management.
• Operates with the goal of making programmatic provisioning of services the default.
• Defines and detail standard operating procedures.
• Actively ensures peak levels of services uptime.
• Collaborates across departments to evolve systems standards studio-wide.
• Works together with the team providing them with support, guidance and instruction in areas that contribute towards their professional growth.
• Follows supervisor’s and lead's guidance.

Requirements

• Process automation and deployment.
• Experience with Ansible.
• Experience with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) systems.
• Bash / PowerShell scripting.
• Knowledge of DevOps methodologies.
• Experience working in DevOps environments and methodologies.
• Experience in virtualization and deployment processes.
• Experience in the 3D animation industry.
• High level of English proficiency.