Chief Technology Officer driving AI - first architecture, agentic engineering, and distributed team execution at Toptal. Owning technical strategy, hiring, platform reliability, and production AI outcomes.
About the role
- Head of Technology overseeing infrastructure at the world's first cloud-based Visual Effects studio. Leading tech maintenance, growth, and support while managing cross-functional teams.
Responsibilities
- Lead the design, maintenance, and scaling of on-prem infrastructure including networking, servers, switches and local and cloud connectivity.
- Own all studio technology and facilities tech, including AV systems, meeting rooms, editorial/finishing setups, and general IT experience.
- Oversee Flame and Review suites, client-facing environments, and artist workstations.
- Ensure high reliability and performance for all physical studio spaces.
- Manage studio connectivity with AWS and streaming services like Clearview and NDI.
- Lead and grow the Technology team, embedding strong collaborative culture.
- Oversee daily operations across the studio, including remote and hybrid users.
- Manage onboarding processes, system documentation, and knowledge-sharing standards.
- Foster an innovative, collaborative, and high-ownership team environment, and manage career planning and growth for the team members.
- Lead the studio’s security and compliance initiatives, working with internal stakeholders, vendors, and auditors.
- Manage identity access, endpoint security, network design, patching, and monitoring for both on-prem and AWS.
- Work collaboratively with Pipeline, and Cloud Developers to maintain a secure hybrid environment.
- Manage licensing for all software including procurement, renewals, tracking, and optimisation.
- Develop key vendor relationships for hardware, software, cloud, and services.
- Work with the Commercial team to forecast spend, negotiate contracts, and ensure cost-efficiency.
- Support decisions on capacity planning, instance usage and render resource planning.
- Provide feedback on architecture decisions as needed.
- Monitor, optimise, and forecast infrastructure and AWS spend alongside the Cloud and commercial teams.
Requirements
- 7–10+ years in senior technology infrastructure leadership within a technical, media, VFX, animation, broadcast, or high-performance computing environment
- Familiarity with cloud-based compute environments
- Understanding of remote workstation technologies or virtualised environments
- Experience with AWS services and cloud-native infrastructure
- Experience managing licensing across complex software environments
Benefits
- Creative environment
- Collaborative team culture
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