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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

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Lead

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Tech skills

AWSCloud

Location requirements

HybridTorontoCanada

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