Senior System Development Engineer at Sphere Entertainment Co.

<div class="content-intro"><p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span data-olk-copy-source="MessageBody">Sphere Entertainment Co. is a leader in immersive experiences, technology and media. The Company includes Sphere, an experiential medium powered by advanced technologies. The first Sphere opened in Las Vegas, with a second venue planned for Abu Dhabi. In addition, the Company includes MSG Networks, which operates two regional sports and entertainment networks, MSG Network and MSG Sportsnet, as well as a direct-to-consumer and authenticated streaming product, MSG+, delivering a wide range of live sports content and other programming. More information is available at&nbsp;</span><a href="https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sphereentertainmentco.com%2F&amp;data=05%7C02%7CMaddie.Rizzo%40msg.com%7Cf345c42af5d7463ff83408de643f07ae%7Cf2c1e8475bd24ba2b5e4b529a645f31a%7C1%7C0%7C639058419051444527%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=cMiSC0m9pVYooMKOmqGRKLvrWz4pyLwUcbtd%2BD8jl0E%3D&amp;reserved=0" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="3">www.sphereentertainmentco.com</a>.</span></p></div><p><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><strong>Who are we hiring? </strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Sphere is looking for a Senior System Development Engineer to join the Cloud Services team under the Senior Director of Cloud Services. In this role, you will support a growing and diversifying set of ground-breaking productions; designing and deploying the infrastructure to enable and support all Studio and Production workflows and writing the services and tools that glue those workflows together.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Sphere requires innovators who are used to adventuring beyond their comfort zone to solve real production challenges in collaboration with peers, stakeholders, and end users to clear today’s hurdles while building towards a better tomorrow. The extreme level of integration between disciplines requires a balanced, creative, agile approach to be successful; being able to prioritize, communicate, and see the bigger picture are required skills.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Candidates must have a proven history of building secure and efficient cloud computing networks, environments, and software services; ideally in a large-scale VFX or post-production setting. Candidates can expect to have a range of responsibilities, including: network &amp; firewall design and implementation, development &amp; deployment of tools and services, artist workstation &amp; render node deployments, high-speed storage deployment and tuning, and general system reliability monitoring.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><strong>What will you do? </strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Design, develop, deploy, and maintain production applications, services, and datastores</span></li> <li style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Design, deploy, and monitor cloud infrastructure that enable efficient, secure, and reliable Production workflows</span></li> <li style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Scope, manage, and implement the migration of legacy on-prem services to cloud-based infrastructure</span></li> <li style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Lead collaboration between pipeline engineers, end users, and stakeholders to create scalable and secure solutions to address problems, from proof-of-concept to deployment</span></li> <li style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Shepherd and implement all changes in an IaC deployment workflow</span></li> <li style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Monitor, refine, and optimize existing cloud service architecture and resource utilization</span></li> <li style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Provide exceptional experiences for our guests, partners, and team members, including by adhering to our appearance and presentation guidelines while on-site. &nbsp;</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><strong>What do you need to succeed? </strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">8 years’ minimum experience developing, deploying, monitoring, and maintaining infrastructure and services in a cloud environment</span></li> <li style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Strong experience designing secure cloud VPCs, firewalls, and routing tables</span></li> <li style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Strong experience in all major OS (Linux, Windows, MacOS)</span></li> <li style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Strong understanding of Docker, Kubernetes, and general container-based application deployments</span></li> <li style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Strong experience with cloud platforms; GCP experience required</span></li> <li style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Strong experience developing and using infrastructure-as-code (IAC) resource provisioning tools (Terraform, CDK, Palumi, etc.)</span></li> <li style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Strong understanding of common web development patterns and designs (REST, microservices, serverless, pub/sub, etc.)</span></li> <li style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Strong experience with industry-standard CI/CD tools/workflows (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, etc.)</span></li> <li style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Strong experience with implementing and managing metrics monitoring and application performance monitoring (APM) tools (Prometheus/Grafana, DataDog, Sentry, NewRelic, etc.)</span></li> <li style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Experience with VFX, Post-Production, and Animation pipelines a plus</span></li> <li style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Experience with general Linux and Windows system administration</span></li> <li style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Experience with Python, bash, and similar scripting languages</span></li> <li style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Experience with version control tools (Git)</span></li> <li style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Google Professional Cloud Architect Certification or equivalent a plus</span></li> <li style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Experience with Hybrid On-Prem/Cloud Infrastructure a plus</span></li> <li style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Experience with Flow Production Tracking (formerly ShotGrid) a plus</span></li> <li style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Experience with Deadline (or similar render manager) a plus</span></li> <li style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Experience with ASWF’s Rez package management a plus</span></li> <li style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Detail-oriented with excellent communication and documentation skills</span></li> <li style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Ability to multi-task, prioritize, solicit feedback, and work under high pressure with tight deadlines</span></li> <li style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Good problem solving, troubleshooting, and debugging skills</span></li> <li style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Ability to collaborate with team members across different disciplines, including directly interfacing with stakeholders, to understand requirements</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><strong>Special Requirements</strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Special projects may require occasional travel and non-standard work hours</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">#LI-Onsite</span></p><div class="content-pay-transparency"><div class="pay-input"><div class="title">Pay Range</div><div class="pay-range"><span>$113,000</span><span class="divider">&mdash;</span><span>$240,000 USD</span></div></div></div><div class="content-conclusion"><p></p> <p style="line-height: 1.4;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">At MSG, we recognize the importance of upskilling employees’ talents and strengths so they can drive their careers forward. We are proud to offer a robust set of tools and resources to help employees understand their interests and purpose, harness their talents and obtain the skills they need to reach the next step in their careers. Growth and longevity for our employees are top priorities here.</span></p> <p style="line-height: 1.4;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">We value diversity and are looking for extraordinary employees of all backgrounds! MSG is an Equal Opportunity Employer and provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, sexual and reproductive health choices, national origin, citizenship, age, genetic information, disability, or veteran status. <span data-teams="true">MSG complies with all applicable federal, state, and local laws governing nondiscrimination, including considering requests for reasonable accommodations as required.</span></span></p> <p></p></div>