Hasta La Motion!

Responsible to: Head of Pipeline

MPC (The Moving Picture Company) leads the world in post production and visual effects for the Feature Film, Advertising, Digital and Television industries. We are currently seeking a Systems Developer to join our Software team to develop and maintain tools to help manage our critical technical resources. Working closely with our team of top-notch systems administrators and developers you will work on projects such as managing hundreds of TBs of high performance storage, increasing efficiency of our render farm and improving management of our overall systems operations.

This role would suit an experienced system administrator looking to take on a development role, or an experienced developer wanting to get more involved in system operations.

·Work with the Systems and Software teams to develop, maintain and support in-house tools with a particular focus on data management ·Ensure systems software can continue to scale reliably ·Help drive the strategy for our in-house system operations tools

• Troubleshooting issues that affect production
• Help identify upcoming business requirements, recommend and implement solutions, and provide input for the design of next generation technology.
• Maintain documentation for in-house software
• Ensure software written is compliant with in-house coding standards.
• Improve quality of software, implement automated tests for software developed

Essential Skills and Experience:

• At least 3 years experience of scripting language development in either Perl or Python in a Linux or UNIX environment.
• Proven experience of working on complex projects involving networking, databases, large data structures and generally pushing the limits.
• Strong database development skills, ideally MySQL, with experience of techniques such as replication, proxies and sharding
• Good knowledge of Linux including NFS, rsync, Apache, networking, backup techniques
• Experience of developing with SOA / web services
• Know your way around version control systems like Subversion and git.
• Good knowledge of low level systems development with C, system calls, make, patch etc.
• Pro-active approach to solving problems, improving systems.
• An enthusiasm for understanding how we make high end VFX and how we can make it better.
• Great communication skills, able to talk to technical peers and non-technical users alike and gain their trust and respect.

Salary: Competitive remuneration package
Location: London
Application Closing Date: (None) Ongoing recruitment

This is an exciting opportunity to work in the movie industry at the leading edge of VFX production, continually pushing the limits of technology. If you are interested please apply online here: http://www.moving-picture.com/index….developer.html

MPC (The Moving Picture Company) leads the world in post production and visual effects for the Feature Film, Advertising, Digital and Television industries. We are currently seeking a Database Administrator to ensure the ongoing smooth operation of MPC’s global production systems as we continue to grow. We operate a sophisticated global digital asset management and automated workflow system based around a distributed database architecture built using MySQL. We are looking for someone to take our database infrastructure to the next level to allow us to continue to scale out and improve performance for this critical cornerstone of our infrastructure. This role will also collaborate closely with our software developers to continually improve performance and quality of our software.
Key Tasks/duties:
·Primarily responsible for our global database infrastructure
·Maintenance of production, development and test databases
·Drive improvements in performance and reliability
·Monitor usage, forecast capacity requirements, plan upgrades and scalability improvements
·Work with colleagues to maintain regular, reliable, timely and viable backups
·Maintain database aspects of disaster recovery plan
·Manage changes, test and benchmark before deployment in the production environment
·Collaborate with developers for schema design, query optimisation, software architecture and ad hoc problem solving
·Mentoring team members, maintain documentation and ongoing education of staff
·Opportunity to work on other systems development tasks as and when database responsibilities allow
·Assist colleagues in Systems with infrastructure and software support as and when needed.
Experience/Knowledge:
·Significant experience managing large relational database infrastructures
·Good working knowledge of MySQL in addition to other RDBMSs.
·Strong Linux experience, can demonstrate how kernel and filesystem affects database performance
·Well disciplined in change management, best practices for making changes to critical systems
·Experience of managing business-critical systems in a 24×7 environment
·Good knowledge and experience using at least two of bash, Perl, Python or C/C++
·Knowledge of technologies such as Apache, PHP, git, make, rpm, yum, strace etc.
Salary: Competitive remuneration package
Location: London
Application Closing Date: (None) Ongoing recruitment
This is an exciting opportunity to work in the movie industry at the leading edge of VFX production, continually pushing the limits of technology. If you are interested please apply online here: http://www.moving-picture.com/index….developer.html

For a TV-Feature-Film we’re looking for an experienced Modeling Supervisor.

Job description:
* Conceptualize, monitor, and oversee the production.
* Build and execute complex CG models.
* Interpret and translate creative direction to the modelers.
* Ensure modeling work is carried out on schedule and on budget.
* Actively participate in development and enhancement of workflow and pipeline.
* Collaborate closely with Art Director & VFX Supervisor
* Supervise & Train other team-members.

Requirements:
* Feature-Film-Production experience.
* Comprehensive understanding of the creation and use of geometry assets in a CG feature production.
* Previous supervisory or leadership role.
* Experience with a high-end 3D modeling or sculpting system (Maya / Z-Brush) for the creation of both hard surface and organic models.
* Strong problem-solving skills.
* Artistic approach.
* Strong communication skills.

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Please send your demo reel, cv and fx-breakdown to:
mh@d-facto-motion.de

or:
D-Facto Motion GmbH
Steinstrasse 17
81667 Munich
Germany
JOB: Modeling Supervisor