Sony Pictures Entertainment · 2 months ago
Lead, Systems Engineer
Culver City, California
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$138K/yr - $167K/yr
8+ years expSony Pictures Entertainment is a leading global entertainment company, and they are seeking a Lead, Systems Engineer to manage and ensure the uptime of their Global Enterprise Server Infrastructure. The role involves analysis, design, and development of enterprise systems, emphasizing project management and maintaining positive relationships with IT organizations, clients, and vendors.
ContentFilm DistributionFilm ProductionMedia and EntertainmentTV Production
Responsibilities
Senior team member on a team of Global Server Technology Team
Perform installations and configurations of multiple virtualization technologies and Operating Systems (i.e., Windows, Linux, etc.)
Establish standards for server hardware and operating systems
Establish server usage policies and communicate policies to affected audience(s)
Develop performance management procedures for server infrastructure
Manage and maintain server resources, globally, throughout the enterprise
Manage IT Staff relationships to insure service levels and availability of all servers
Manage outages, identify root cause and resolve all server issues within allowed service levels
Manage outages, identify root cause and resolve all server issues within allowed service levels
Participate in the daily production meeting to report the status of production systems
Participate in the change control, production acceptance and event management processes
Participate in the development of operational procedures and policies
Participate in the development of a viable, cost-effective disaster recovery capability
Develop report monthly statistics and progress against internal and external service levels
Manage Server capacity and provide server utilization statistics to the capacity planner
Provide oral and written status reports to IT management and customers
Qualification
Required
Minimum 8 years employment in the IT industry working with a major systems and vendors
Minimum 5 years experience in deploying, managing and maintaining Cloud Services on one or more of the 3 major CSPs (AWS/Azure/GCP)
Minimum 5 years experience as an Intel and/or x86 systems administrator
Minimum 8 years experience with Windows and Linux operating system required
Minimum 3 years experience with Virtualization OS (VMWare, Power VM, Oracle VM) required
Minimum 3 years experience with multi-tiered application development required
Computer Networking Concepts: switching/routing/firewalls
Hands on recent experience with Cloud technologies and service from the top 3 CSPs (AWS/Azur/GCP)
Linux OS: Systems working knowledge, bash/python scripting, ansible/other config mgmt. tools
Windows OS: Group Policy, Windows registry, protocols, config mgmt tools
Virtualization: SDDC/SDN/SDS concepts preferably in VMware/Nutanix products
IaC/DevOps tools: Jenkins/Github/Terraform etc
System Design: ER diagram, n-tier arch, expertise in any architecture drawing tools
Contextual knowledge of AI technologies and it's practical implementations in real world and how it applies to system engineering and operations
Project management: Waterfall/Agile, ROI, FRD/BRD/TRD, CBA/budgeting
Experience working with RDMS, No-SQL platforms and other common Database platforms
Able to travel about 10% of the time
Preferred
Two or more years of entertainment experience is a plus
Bachelor's degree in computer engineering or equivalent experience preferred
Benefits
Annual incentive
Comprehensive benefits
Company
Sony Pictures Entertainment
Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) is a subsidiary of Sony Entertainment Inc., a subsidiary of Tokyo-based Sony Corporation. It is a sub-organization of Sony.
5001-10000 employees
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Funding
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$1M2000-11-07Series A· $1M
Leadership Team
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Tom Bernard
Co-President and Co-Founder of Sony Pictures Classics
Jake Zim
Senior Vice President Virtual Reality
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