Senior Cloud Application Engineer

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 Senior 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 developing, deploying, and maintaining 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. Strong candidates will have demonstrable experience with every aspect of application and service scoping, development, deployment, and monitoring. 

What will you do? 

• Design, develop, deploy, and maintain Core Tech applications and services
• Identify, scope, and implement integrations between studio services to optimize production operation
• Lead collaboration between pipeline engineers, end users, and stakeholders to create scalable and secure solutions to address problems, from proof-of-concept to deployment
• Monitor, refine, and optimize cloud service architecture and resource utilization
• Identify, collect, and present service data and metrics in a user-friendly manner to drive business decisions
• Establish metric data collection and retention pipeline to analyze and optimize studio workflows and forecasting
• Ensure adoption of 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? 

• 8 years’ minimum experience with developing, deploying, monitoring, and maintaining applications and resources in a cloud environment
• 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
• Strong experience with cloud platforms; AWS or GCP required
• Strong experience developing and using infrastructure-as-code (IAC) resource provisioning tools (Terraform, CDK, Palumi, etc.)
• Strong development experience with Python; PyQT a plus
• Strong development experience with Python web-development frameworks (Django, Flask, FastAPI etc.)
• Strong experience scoping, managing, and developing end-user applications
• Strong experience with implementing and managing application performance monitoring tools (DataDog, Sentry, NewRelic, etc.)
• Strong experience with common CI/CD tools/workflows (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, etc.)
• Experience with Hybrid On-Prem/Cloud Infrastructure a plus
• Experience with version control tools like Git
• Experience with Flow Production Tracking (formerly ShotGrid)
• Experience with Deadline (or similar render manager)
• Experience with ASWF’s Rez package management a plus
• Experience with basic data science and analytics workflows and methodologies
• Detail-oriented with excellent communication and documentation skills
• Ability to multi-task, prioritize, solicit feedback, 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

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