Render Wrangler

Summary

Join Atomic Cartoons as a proactive Render Wrangler! Reporting to the Render Supervisor, you will manage the render farm's daily operations, communicate with production teams, troubleshoot render issues, and identify areas for improvement. This role requires a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience, the ability to work swing shifts and weekends, and excellent communication and technical skills. While experience with Python, Maya, Renderman, Tractor, Harmony, and Linux is preferred, the ability to work remotely, in the office, or hybrid is offered. Atomic Cartoons offers competitive pay and benefits, including medical, GRSP, vacation pay, paid holidays, and paid leave.

Requirements

• A Bachelor's degree in Computer science or equivalent experience
• Must be able to work swing shifts and weekends
• Ability to communicate creative and technical thoughts and ideas
• Excellent visual skills and attention to detail
• Ability to prioritize tasks
• Currently legally eligible to work in Canada
• Applicants must have resided within BC as of December 31, 2023 and be able to provide the appropriate supporting documents

Responsibilities

• Monitor and manage daily operation of the render farm
• Proactively communicate with productions to determine daily per-show priorities and ensure studio overarching priorities are enforced
• Perform basic wrangling and root cause analysis on logs for failed tasks, flagging issues, while identifying and communicating trends
• Escalate infrastructure and asset issues to the correct person
• Help identify areas to improve configuration, monitoring and automation of systems
• Gather statistics from the queue and communicate successes, failures and trends

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working with Python, Maya, Renderman, Tractor, Harmony and Linux
• An understanding of basic networking

Benefits

• Company-sponsored benefits including medical
• GRSP
• Vacation pay
• Paid holiday break
• Paid leave
• A variety of other discounts and perks
• This role can work from home, office or hybrid
• All Atomic employees in this role have the opportunity to work remotely within BC, artists within Vancouver and the Lower Mainland can also choose hybrid and in-studio options