Studio: Industrial Light & Magic
Job Opening: Digital Resource Manager
Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Type: Full-Time
Responsibilities:
- Analyze production resource usage trends and anticipates upcoming requirements to ensure the most efficient use of digital resources
- Proactively work with Production and Technology to build consensus, recommend, determine and ultimately implement/operationalize appropriate policies and procedures around digital resource management
- Assist with documenting all new policies/changes/updates and progress for the project so as to create an historical record as well as a practical manual for ongoing process management for the function/role
- Work cooperatively with the Production and Technology teams to ensure show adopts and follows proper data management procedures
- Proactively evaluate data workflow to constantly look for and recommend areas to improve efficiency and responsiveness to production needs
- Assist Production and Technology in meeting current resource management needs while planning and preparing a strong resource management framework and foundation to support planned future growth
- Partner with Technology and Production to review data workflow and to define improvements in tools and technical processes to allow more effective management, tracking, and forecasting of resources
- Monitor disk space and reports status to production and technology teams
- Proactively manage processor load/requirements, reporting problems to production and technology teams
- Perform other data maintenance, including tape backup and restore, as required
- Modify scripts where needed for trackingor reporting
- Serve as a liaison between CG staff and other disciplines
- Create disk and processor projections based on historical data
Qualifications & Skills:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Film Production or equivalent degree
- 5 + years of relevant work experience
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills required. Strong people skills and the ability to effectively interact with diverse personalities
- Strong time management skills; Ability to multitask and prioritize
- Proven ability to work autonomously and in team settings
- Highly motivated
- Strong problem-solving skills
- Ability to adapt to a high pressure, fast-paced, dynamic environment
- High technical quality control
- To have a strong work ethic with dedicated and high customer service
- Knowledge and experience of UNIX/Linux & Windows operating systems
- Strong scripting language (e.g. Python) and programming language (e.g. C/C++) is highly desired
- Database knowledge preferred (e.g. Oracle, Postgres, MongoDB, Cassandra)
- Knowledge of networking, tape backup systems, hardware a plus
- VFX, Feature Animation or Episodic production experience is highly desired
- Proven data-driven decision-making a plus
