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Senior Infrastructure Developer

The opportunity

We are looking for an expert DevOps/Automation Engineer to be part of the Weta team within Unity. This role will sit in our Wellington office and will provide an exciting opportunity for someone to join our small team of engineers looking after a lot critical infrastructure.

You and the team will monitor, improve, install and manage the infrastructure that supports over 1800 crew and the delivery of world leading visual effects.

What you’ll be doing

Behind our crew and the films we work on, is the architecture built by the infrastructure team! Below are some of the key responsibilities in the role:

• Our team perform both day-to-day support and project work to sustain and improve our large, primarily cross-platform infrastructure.
• Support thousands of servers, petabytes of network storage, a diverse network setup, and have interesting security requirements to meet.
• Keep our systems up and running, on call when required.
• Ensure we deliver on time and that our crew have the best experience possible.

What we’re looking for

To complement the skillset in our team, we require a Senior Infrastructure Engineer with strong hands-on experience working in a DevOps environment. This person will need:

• Strong scripting skills using Bash, Python etc.
• Configuration management using Puppet or similar
• Infrastructure as code using Terraform or similar
• Using git to deploy code and collaborate with colleagues
• CI/CD and Linux administration

You might also have

• Experience with Ubuntu or Debian based operating systems strongly desirable. As well as knowledge of endpoint management applications and processes e.g. Puppet, Ansible, SALT, Chef, Jamf etc.
• Knowledge of infrastructure as code languages e.g. Terraform, CloudFormation
• Administering clients via MDM, OSX administration, Linux debugging, VMware and other virtual environments, AWS deployment and operations, Kubernetes and other container environments
• Unix build systems CMake, GCC etc, Knowledge of use and management of additional VCS systems e.g. Perforce, Other general system administration applications and services e.g. DNS, DHCP, SystemImager, Foreman, F5, firewalls, monitoring and metrics etc.

We offer a flexible, creative, dynamic and supportive environment and the opportunity to work with leading-edge technology. If you enjoy working in a fast-paced environment, where you are empowered to identify opportunities and design and implement solutions – then this may be the opportunity for you!

Life at Unity

Unity (NYSE: U) is the world’s leading platform for creating and operating real-time 3D (RT3D) content. Creators, ranging from game developers to artists, architects, automotive designers, filmmakers, and others, use Unity to make their imaginations come to life. Unity is the foundation upon which the world’s most powerful digital content is created. Specifically, Unity’s platform provides a comprehensive set of software solutions to create, run and monetize interactive, real-time 2D and 3D content for mobile phones, tablets, PCs, consoles, and augmented and virtual reality devices.

In the fourth quarter of 2021, Unity had, on average, 3.9 billion monthly active end users who consumed content created or operated with its solutions. The applications developed by these creators were downloaded, on average, five billion times per month in 2021. For more information, please visit www.unity.com.

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