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subject: System Administrator (Lead) , Laika Inc.

Laika Inc. is looking for System Administrator (Lead)
duration - Full-Time

Job details: Award winning animation studio, LAIKA Inc, based in Portland Oregon and owned by Phil Knight, co-founder and chairman of Nike is seeking a Lead System Administrator to oversee day-to-day operations and provides leadership for the Infrastructure group.



LAIKA/entertainment is currently in production on several animated feature films including: Neil Gaiman's "Coraline" , written for the screen and directed by Henry Selick (The Nightmare Before Christmas, James and The Giant Peach); and "Jack & Ben", written and directed by Jorgen Klubien (Cars, Monsters Inc, Toy Story 2, A Bug's Life, The Lion King, The Little Mermaid). The company recently purchased the rights to one of the U.K.'s current best-selling children's novels, writer/illustrator Alan Snow's "Here Be Monsters". LAIKA/house is a dynamic community of filmmakers, designers and animators guided by a legacy of 30 years of animation history. Notorious for its skills in storytelling and character performance, LAIKA/house produces every type of animation in every medium.



Responsibilities:

Ensure the availability of critical IT infrastructure

Set day-to-day priorities for system administration

Serve as technical lead on all group initiatives

Work with department heads and users to forecast requirements

Work with IT Manager to establish group priorities and goals

Supervise system administration staff

Create reports and proposals as needed



Qualifications:

Eight years experience designing, deploying and operating high performance computing environments

Eight years experience with enterprise infrastructure operations

Eight years experience administering high performance networks

Eight years experience with high performance network storage

Eight years experience designing and administering automation infrastructure

Eight years experience with monitoring and security infrastructure

Eight years experience with trending, data collection and analysis

Eight years experience in data center operations

Eight years experience programming and scripting

Three years experience designing and operating VoIP infrastructure

Three years experience working in a supervisory role

Detailed understanding of TCP/IP and common service protocols

Excellent troubleshooting skills

Excellent oral and written communication skills

Ability to communicate effectively with users of all abilities



Preferred Abilities and Knowledge:

Prior experience in animated feature film production

Experience with RHEL, CentOS and FreeBSD

Experience with Xen and Vmware

Experience with high availability architectures

Experience with Cfengine, Bcfg2 or Puppet

Experience with RCS, CVS and Subversion

Experience with PostgreSQL and MySQL

Experience with Ruby, Perl, Python and C++

Experience with Nagios, SNMP and Ganglia

Data center design experience



To apply go to http://apps.laika.com/jobs/detail/25



For additional information on Laika please visit www.laika.com
Location: Portland, Oregon, United States