Senior Cloud Systems Engineer - Production & VFX

Sphere Entertainment Group, LLC; Burbank (CA); On-site; USD 113,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Sphere Entertainment Co. is seeking a Senior System Development Engineer to join the Cloud Services team.

You will design, deploy, and support production workflows and the tooling that connects them, enabling secure, scalable cloud infrastructure for high-end productions. Ideal candidates have 8+ years in cloud infra, strong Docker/Kubernetes and GCP experience, and a solid IaC background using Terraform, CDK, or Pulumi.

Qualifications

• 8 years minimum experience in building, deploying, monitoring and maintaining infrastructure in a cloud environment.
• Strong design experience for secure cloud VPCs, firewalls, and routing tables.
• Proficiency with Linux, Windows and MacOS.
• Solid background with Docker, Kubernetes and container deployments.
• GCP experience required.
• Infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform, CDK, Pulumi, etc.
• Knowledge of REST, microservices, serverless, pub/sub patterns.
• Experience with CI/CD tools (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD).
• Familiarity with monitoring/APM tools (Prometheus, Grafana, DataDog, Sentry, NewRelic).
• Experience with VFX, post-production pipelines a plus.
• Scripting in Python, Bash; Git version control.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, deploy, and maintain production applications, services, and datastores.
• Design, deploy, and monitor cloud infrastructure for production workflows.
• Migrate legacy on-prem services to cloud-based infrastructure.
• Lead collaboration between pipeline engineers, end users, and stakeholders to create scalable, secure solutions.
• Manage changes in an IaC deployment workflow.
• Monitor, refine, and optimize existing cloud service architecture and resource usage.
• Support on-site guest, partner, and team experiences following presentation guidelines.

Skills

Cloud architecture

VPC design

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

CI/CD

Git

GCP

Python scripting

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI/CD

Monitoring tools

Prometheus

Tools

CDK

Pulumi

Datadog

Sentry

NewRelic

Grafana

Terraform

Kubernetes

Job description

Sphere Entertainment Co. is seeking a Senior System Development Engineer to join the Cloud Services team.

You will design, deploy, and support production workflows and the tooling that connects them, enabling secure, scalable cloud infrastructure for high-end productions. Ideal candidates have 8+ years in cloud infra, strong Docker/Kubernetes and GCP experience, and a solid IaC background using Terraform, CDK, or Pulumi.