Render Wrangler

ICON Creative Studio is Canada’s largest independently owned animation entertainment company located in the historic Gastown district of Vancouver, BC Canada with design, storyboarding, modeling, rigging, animation, technical finaling, lighting, visual effects, and compositing artists alongside creative and management teams.

Known for our quality, efficiency, and timely deliveries, ICON has partnered alongside distributors, broadcasters, and streaming platforms around the world to help create, realize and produce noteworthy content.

ICON operates from a holistic philosophy that leverages individual skill sets to maximize production efficiency on the floor while maintaining an optimal balance of creativity and quality on-screen.

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Why work at ICON?

At ICON we constantly invest in raising the bar of our productions and fostering our people. If you are a passionate artist capable of sharing success with others, we'd like to hear from you!

• Join the fastest growing CG Animation studio in Vancouver
  
• Work on top feature episodic CG franchises for leading streaming platforms (Netflix, Disney+, Apple TV+, Amazon, Peacock, Paramount+ etc.)
• Work with a diverse group of artists from all over the world who have come to BC to join our expanding studio
• Use all of the latest tools and Softwares
• We uphold a premium standard of quality across all of our production
• We hire for the long term and give artists the opportunity to grow, get promoted and take on as much responsibility as they can manage
• We offer flexibility and autonomy
• We facilitate requests and make changes in a timely manner
• We support PR applications 
• Direct Deposit
• We offer a generous benefits package for all employees
  

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Job Description:

Managing the render farm to ensure all productions can meet their deadlines. Coordinate with
various stakeholders to resolve issues and implement improvements in performance, reliability
and process.

Job Duties:
- Minimum 2 Years Experience managing a render farm
- Experience with Shotgrid
- Familiarity with Maya, Nuke and Houdini
- Ensure the render farm is operating to the best of its ability.
- Plan, coordinate and monitor resources to ensure they are appropriately allocated in order to
meet deadlines.
- Monitor for issues with jobs and nodes, resolving them or coordinating with stakeholders to get
them resolved in a timely manner.
- Assist artists and production with any requests or problems.
- Perform cleanup on the render farm as needed
- Analyze trends to identify areas of improvement

Requirements:
- Strong communication and organization
- Ability to learn quickly
- Troubleshooting/problem-solving
- Reliable and proactive
- Ability to work well in a team and independently
- Alternating support on weekends

Beneficial Experience:
- Python
- Thinkbox Deadline Render Farm Management
- Linux and Windows
- Grafana