DreamWorks Animation
develops and produces high quality computer generated (CG) animated films. Our
recent releases include Shrek 2, Sharktale, Madagascar and Wallace
& Gromit, The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
Seeking Sr.
Linux Systems Administrators / Systems Programmers at both studio locations:
*Glendale, California
*Redwood City, California
How to apply:
Please paste/copy resume
into the body of an email with "Sr. Systems Admin/Programmer" in the
subject line. Then send to recruiting@pdi.com.
*No attachments please,
due to virus concerns.
Responsibilities:
_ Designs/implements
management tools for complex local and wide-area networks of machines.
_ Designs/implements and
automates administration of network services.
_ Works under general
direction from senior management.
_ Recommends policies on
system use, services, and procedures.
_ Provides technical
leadership to system administrators, system programmers, or others of
equivalent seniority.
Required Skills:
_ Strong interpersonal
and communications skills; capable of writing proposals or papers, acting as a
vendor liaison, making presentations to client audiences or professional peers,
and working closely with upper management.
_ Ability to solve
problems quickly and automate processes.
_ A solid understanding
of an operating system; understands paging and swapping, inter-process
communications, devices and what device drivers do, file system concepts
(inode, clustering, logical partitions), can use performance analysis to tune
systems.
_ A solid understanding
of networking/distributed computing environment concepts; understands
principles of routing, client/server programming, and the design of consistent
network-wide filesystem layouts.
_ Extensive programming
experience in Perl, shell, and C.
_ Ability to find and
correct defects in existing C code repositories affecting system performance.
_ Ability to create new
operating-system-level services and/or modifying existing services.
_ Experience programming
in an Oracle and PL/SQL environment.
_ Experience designing,
building, configuring, and managing NFS and autofs environments.
_ Experience designing,
building, configuring, and managing an LDAP infrastructure.
_ Experience with TCP/IP
networking protocols. Ability to debug (tcpdump, etherpeek, netstat, lsof ) and
program at the network level.
_ Experience
installing/configuring and automating maintenance of DNS/BIND.
_ Experience with network
security (e.g., configuring firewalls, deploying authentication systems, or
applying cryptography to network applications).
_ Experience with host
security (e.g., passwords, uids/gids, SIDs, file permissions, ACLs, filesystem
integrity, use of security packages).
_ Experience with
Kerberos.
_ Experience
installing/configuring server hardware, peripherals, and storage systems.
_ Experience coordinating
multiple independent computer facilities (e.g., working for the central group
at a large company).
_ Experience at sites
with over 1,000 computers, over 1,000 users, and over a 100 terabytes of disk
space.
_ Ability to apply
statistical analysis techniques for performance analysis or debugging purposes
for 1000+ concurrently operating systems.
Required Background:
_ More than ten years of
previous UNIX and/or Linux system administration experience.
_ More than five years of
UNIX and/or Linux programming experience.
_ Last-tier service
support experience in an on-call pager rotation.
Desirable Background and
Skills:
_ A degree in computer
science or a related field.
_ Extensive programming
background in any applicable language.
_ Publications within the
field of system administration.
_ Experience as
postmaster of a site.
_ Experience programming
in a TCP/IP multicast networking environment.
_ Experience implementing
and developing to a single-sign on authentication environment.
_ Experience with X and
OpenGL software development.
_ Experience as a
database administrator.
_ Experience
installing/configuring load balancers, packet shapers, or proxies.
_ Experience with
administration of charge-back accounting for service consumption.
_ Experience with Network
Appliance file servers and/or development with NetApp API's and protocols.
Company Perks:
We offer a casual, fun & collaborative
work environment; free food; onsite dry-cleaning, film developing and car wash
services; training and artistic development classes; discounts to movie
theatres, theme parks, zoos, Hewlett Packard and Verizon wireless products; and
of course movie screenings!
Visit us
at: www.dreamworksanimation.com
