Bardel Entertainment

System Administrator

• Maintain Bardel’s Systems Administrations operation standards of installation, configuration, and administration of the tech infrastructure
• Collaborate across multiple teams to design and deploy highly redundant and secure systems.
• Administration and maintenance of physical, virtual and Cloud infrastructure.
• Monitor and optimize system performance and ensure production facing services are performing to the required standard.
• Focus on continuous improvement and automation of repetitive tasks/procedures. Work with Desktop support team on ticket escalations and technical knowledge sharing.
• Assist in implementing new systems and keep project on time and on budget.
• Provide input into potential improvements in efficiency, reliability and performance of the animation pipeline.

Systems Administrator

Producer

• Responsible for ensuring all pre-production assets have been scheduled and assigned and are completed within the allocated time, including but not limited to storyboards, animatics, models, rigging, and that all materials are approved and ready for animation in accordance with the production schedule.
• Exercise superior leadership, collaborative, and communication skills to ensure that inter and intra departmental tasks are assigned, understood and completed as per instructed.
• Work with the Line Producer to ensure scripts are delivered according to schedules published.
• Responsible for Script breakdown reviews and viability meetings with internal and external key stakeholders.
• Work with the Line Producer to maintain and update working production schedules – overall, departmental, client, and service studios as requested
• Supervise production coordinators and production assistants. Manage their assigned departments.
• Utilize Shotgrid and oversee its use by the production team. Ensure that all tasks are tracked accurately.
• Review and coordinate weekly to do lists with the members of the production team to ensure tracking and reporting are accurate and up to date.
• Actively participate in scheduled production and team meetings
• Provide internal and external weekly production status reports

Production Manager – TV Featurette

• Design, deploy, and maintain Linux and Windows Server environments in production settings
• Ensure high availability, performance, and reliability of infrastructure supporting production pipelines
• Act as a senior escalation point for complex systems issues and outages
• Contribute to infrastructure planning, lifecycle management, and modernization initiatives
• Design, manage, and maintain firewall and network security configurations
• Implement and enforce security best practices, access controls, and segmentation
• Partner with security stakeholders to support compliance, auditing, and client security requirements
• Identify and remediate infrastructure security risks
• Design and operate enterprise storage solutions (on-prem and cloud-based)
• Own backup, disaster recovery, and restore processes
• Ensure data integrity, availability, and performance for production workloads
• Regularly validate backup and recovery procedures
• Design, deploy, and operate Kubernetes clusters in on-prem and cloud environments
• Support and maintain containerized services used by pipeline, infrastructure, and internal platforms
• Implement best practices for container security, networking, scaling, and monitoring
• Collaborate with Pipeline and Development teams to optimize container-based workflows
• Serve as a technical lead and subject matter expert for systems and infrastructure
• Establish standards, documentation, and operational procedures
• Mentor and support other Systems Administrators
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Pipeline, Security, and Production teams

Systems Administrator

Production Manager – TV Featurette

Lead Systems Administrator