Sphere Entertainment Co. (NYSE: SPHR) is a premier live entertainment and media company. The Company includes Sphere, a next-generation entertainment medium powered by cutting-edge technologies to redefine the future of entertainment. The first Sphere venue in Las Vegas opened in September 2023. 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 sphereentertainmentco.com.
Who are we hiring?
MSG Sphere is looking for a cloud engineer to join the Core Tech team under the Director of Studio Services. In this role, you will support a growing and diversifying set of ground-breaking productions; developing and integrating services to automate and optimize production workflows from capture to playback.
MSG 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.
Candidates must have a proven history of managing and deploying stateful services in cloud environments, as well as monitoring and optimizing their resource usage, for high-end VFX or other areas of post-production, to provide the foundation for a stable, well documented, and maintainable pipeline ecosystem.
What will you do?
- Help develop, deploy, monitor, and maintain Core Tech services and databases
- Create integrations between services to propagate information to where it is needed
- Directly collaborate with pipeline engineers, end users, and stakeholders to advise on scalable and secure solutions to address problems, from proof-of-concept to deployment
- Monitor and maintain cloud service architecture and resource utilization
- Collect and present service data and metrics in a user-friendly manner to drive business decisions
- Adhere to industry-standard conventions for coding and documentation
- Identify potential optimizations or newer solutions to existing pipeline services and solutions
- Define and implement efficient and secure development processes and deployment procedures
What do you need to succeed?
- 4 years’ minimum experience with deploying and maintaining cloud services and resources
- Strong experience writing pipeline services for a VFX, post, or animation facility
- Strong understanding of software development best practices (testing, version management, etc.)
- Strong experience in all major OS (Linux, Windows, MacOS)
- Strong understanding of Docker, Kubernetes, and general container-based application development
- Proven experience with cloud platforms; AWS and GCP a plus
- Strong experience developing and using infrastructure-as-code (IAC) resource provisioning tools (Terraform, CDK, Palumi, etc.)
- Strong development experience with Python
- Strong experience with common CI/CD tools/workflows (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, etc.)
- Experience with version control tools like Git
- Experience with Flow Production Tracking (formerly ShotGrid) a plus
- Experience with ASWF’s Rez package management a plus
- Experience with Deadline (or similar render manager) a plus
- Detail-oriented with excellent communication and documentation skills
- Ability to multi-task, prioritize, take direction, and work under high pressure with tight deadlines
- Good problem-solving, troubleshooting, and debugging skills
- Ability to collaborate with team members across different disciplines, including directly interfacing with stakeholders, to understand requirements
Special Requirements
- Special projects may require occasional travel and non-standard work hours
Pay Range
$125,000—$160,000 USD
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.
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. In addition to federal law mandates, MSG complies with all applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in all locations and will consider requests for reasonable accommodations as required.
