Senior System Administrator

Luma Pictures is a full service visual effects studio with facilities in Santa Monica, California and MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA. Staffed by a phenomenal team of artists, supervisors and technicians the company operates one of the most efficient production pipelines in the industry and has a consistent track record for delivering groundbreaking visual effects on time, on budget, and with exceptional service.

Currently we're looking for a SENIOR SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR 

The precise tasks can vary depending on what you bring to the table, but some of the outstanding responsibilities are:
- BASH and/or Python Scripting to increase production in our area of supporting the artists
- Digital security, managing and maintaining network and system security
- Local Network management.
- Manage and troubleshoot hardware and software issues on user workstations running Linux, Mac, and occasionally Windows
- Assisting with other items such as power issues, building issues, and other general Issues
- Ethernet cabling, power cabling, server setups and take downs, deployments

QUALIFICATIONS:
- Advanced knowledge of Fedora, CentOS/RHEL, and OSX including software management and deployment
- Advanced knowledge of and experience with networking concepts and network implementations, including routing, VLANs, Firewalls, traffic inspection
- Advanced knowledge of DNS, LDAP, HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, SSH, RDP and other common protocols
- Proactive, curious, energetic, troubleshooter
- Strong desire and ability to learn and apply new knowledge and techniques
- Able to lift a server or other similarly weighted item from time to time, independently
- Extremely proficient with gnu/linux rpm-based distributions
- Knowledge of Apache httpd virtual hosts files
- Ability to lead in advanced troubleshooting without guidance for hardware, software and networking issues
- Advanced knowledge of hardware RAID, software RAID, LVM, ext3/4, NFS, CIFS/SMB, AFP
- Advanced knowledge of hardware including RAID cards, clustered storage such as equallogic, Sun fire, isilon or avamar
- Advanced knowledge of network troubleshooting techniques using nmap, tcpdump, wireshark, iperf, iptraf, nettop, traceroute, etc
- Advanced knowledge of linux network commands including NetworkManager, host, nslookup, dig, ifconfig, IP, route, netstat, ping, iptables, etc
- Solid understanding of packet flow, tcp and udp transmissions
- Advanced knowledge of sysv, systemd, and the startup and login process for linux and osx systems
- Advanced knowledge of virtualization concepts and implementations
- Knowledge of rpm repository mirroring and rpmbuild, for custom repos
- Advanced knowledge of security concepts ranging from file permissions to best practices and backdoor prevention
- Knowledge of VPN technologies including site-to-site VPN tunnels

PLUSES:
- Advanced knowledge of xenserver administration, including p2v
- Knowledge of openldap or opendirectory
- Familiar with visual effects shops, pipelines or similar
- Experience with Squid proxies or other web filtering methods.
- Wireless networking experience
- Video card experience (drivers, troubleshooting, Xorg, etc)
- Puppet or other system management tools