Senior Systems & Render Infrastructure Engineer

Sphere Entertainment Co.; Burbank, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 113,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Sphere Entertainment Co. in Burbank, CA, seeks a Senior Systems Development Engineer to design, build, automate, and operate the infrastructure powering media production workflows.

You will own complex projects from requirements through deployment, partnering with artists, pipeline developers, and production teams to deliver reliable, high-performance systems. You will lead cloud and on-premises platforms, scale render farms, enable remote production with GPU-enabled VDI, and engineer storage

Qualifications

• Experience delivering complex production infrastructure projects.
• Strong knowledge of cloud and on-premises integration.
• Hands-on with CPU/GPU render farms and VDI environments.
• Proficiency in Python or similar for automation and tooling.

Responsibilities

• Own infrastructure delivery from design to operation.
• Engineer secure compute, connectivity, identity, and container services.
• Scale render infrastructure with scheduling and capacity management.
• Build and optimize GPU-enabled VDI and remote workstations.
• Deliver high-throughput storage and data movement for large datasets.
• Design and troubleshoot production networking and media transport.
• Write tools and automation; enforce repeatable deployment pipelines.
• Improve reliability with monitoring, alerts, and incident response.

Skills

Cloud platforms

Render farms

VDI / remote workstations

Networking

Python / automation

Linux systems

Infrastructure as code

Monitoring / incident response

Tools

AWS

Google Cloud

Azure

Render farm software

VMware / virtualization

NFS / SMB storage

Job description

Sphere Entertainment Co. in Burbank, CA, seeks a Senior Systems Development Engineer to design, build, automate, and operate the infrastructure powering media production workflows.

You will own complex projects from requirements through deployment, partnering with artists, pipeline developers, and production teams to deliver reliable, high-performance systems. You will lead cloud and on-premises platforms, scale render farms, enable remote production with GPU-enabled VDI, and engineer storage