Cloud Architect

Untold Studios is seeking a Cloud Architect to join their Technologist team. The role involves designing, building, and innovating the existing cloud infrastructure for their visual effects studio. The architect will create scalable solutions for artists across multi-datacenter environments, evaluate emerging cloud services and VFX cloud technologies, and evolve cloud-native workflows. This position requires strategic infrastructure design, balancing innovation, performance, and cost efficiency to support outstanding content creation.

Must Have

• Design and Architect new cloud-based production capabilities and workflows
• Evaluate and prototype emerging Cloud services and VFX cloud technologies
• Optimise existing cloud infrastructure for performance and cost efficiency
• Implement monitoring, alerting, and cost tracking systems
• Manage cloud storage solutions (Weka, Qumulo and similar high-performance storage)
• Design and implement multi-datacenter/multi-region strategies
• Collaborate with the pipeline team on cloud resource requirements
• Ensure security, compliance, and disaster recovery best practices
• Work with various teams, including developers, security, and executive leadership, to align Technology with business goals
• Research and implement next-generation storage and data movement solutions
• Partner with the pipeline team to enable new production methodologies
• Create proof-of-concepts for business-critical initiatives
• 5+ years AWS (or other cloud) experience with proven architecture expertise
• Knowledge of EC2 instance types, families, and fleet management (Spot, On-Demand, Reserved)
• Expertise in AWS services: S3, EC2, VPC, Route53, IAM, CloudWatch, Cost Explorer
• Experience with cloud storage performance optimisation and data transfer
• Strong understanding of cloud cost management
• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation)
• Multi-region architecture and datacenter connectivity experience
• Networking fundamentals: VPN, Direct Connect, Transit Gateway, subnetting, routing
• Linux system administration

Good to Have

• Software development experience within cloud environments
• Experience setting up Autodesk Flame in cloud environments (AWS)
• Understanding of media/entertainment workflows and streaming protocols such as NDI and CDI
• Familiarity with render farm architecture or HPC workloads
• Previous work in VFX, animation, or post-production environments

What we’re up to at Untold

We are a creative community - a team of world-class talent, visionary clients, and an exciting future ahead. As a studio, our people and culture are at the core of everything we do. Our purpose is simple: to create outstanding content that captivates audiences, while enjoying every step of the journey.

The Role

We're seeking a cloud architect to join our team of Technologists to design, build, and innovate our existing cloud infrastructure that supports our cutting-edge visual effects studio. You'll architect scalable solutions that enable artists to work seamlessly across multi-datacenter environments, evaluate and adopt emerging cloud services and VFX cloud technologies, and drive the evolution of our cloud-native workflows. This role combines strategic infrastructure design, requiring both vision and pragmatism to balance innovation, performance, and cost efficiency.

Your Key Responsibilities:

• Design and Architect new cloud-based production capabilities and workflows
• Evaluate and prototype emerging Cloud services and VFX cloud technologies
• Optimise existing cloud infrastructure for performance and cost efficiency
• Implement monitoring, alerting, and cost tracking systems
• Manage cloud storage solutions (Weka, Qumulo and similar high-performance storage)
• Design and implement multi-datacenter/multi-region strategies
• Collaborate with the pipeline team on cloud resource requirements
• Ensure security, compliance, and disaster recovery best practices
• Work with various teams, including developers, security, and executive leadership, to align Technology with business goals
• Research and implement next-generation storage and data movement solutions
• Partner with the pipeline team to enable new production methodologies
• Create proof-of-concepts for business-critical initiatives

Required Skills:

• 5+ years AWS (or other cloud) experience with proven architecture expertise
• Knowledge of EC2 instance types, families, and fleet management (Spot, On-Demand, Reserved)
• Expertise in AWS services: S3, EC2, VPC, Route53, IAM, CloudWatch, Cost Explorer
• Experience with cloud storage performance optimisation and data transfer
• Strong understanding of cloud cost management
• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation)
• Multi-region architecture and datacenter connectivity experience
• Networking fundamentals: VPN, Direct Connect, Transit Gateway, subnetting, routing
• Linux system administration (Rocky Linux/RHEL experience preferred)

Highly Desired but not essential:

• Software development experience within cloud environments
• Experience setting up Autodesk Flame in cloud environments (AWS) - huge plus
• Understanding of media/entertainment workflows and streaming protocols such as NDI and CDI
• Familiarity with render farm architecture or HPC workloads
• Previous work in VFX, animation, or post-production environments

We are committed to supporting you and your ongoing development. We will work closely with you to establish your personal progression plan. You are never on your own.