Senior Data Services Technician

Full Time Job
Framestore is home to award winning visionaries working across film, Integrated Advertising and the digital realm. We are looking to hire a Senior Data Services Technician to work at our Los Angeles studio in Culver City. Our potential candidate should have at least three years professional experience working at a VFX, color grading, or editing facility.

The data services department manages the facility's digital content throughout the duration of a project. The department's responsibilities include receiving and delivering all project elements, transcoding and converting files as needed, placing files in proper location on a centralized server, safely archiving and maintaining usable space on a facility wide centralized server, and performing final QC and delivery of all client material.

Responsibilities:

- Monitoring, tracking, and transferring data through out the facility for each project
- Bringing data online from a variety of external sources (outside facilities, portable drives, cloud based servers)
- Delivering data to a variety of sources within the company and outside the company
- Transcoding and converting files (i.e. manipulating file format, aspect ratio, frame rate, color space)
- Preparing client provided files, EDLs, and artwork for artist use
- Proper QC of client material for delivery of a project's Final Masters
- Delivering data and Final Masters to clients via a variety of cloud based applications
- Archiving and maintaining usable storage space on Auto Desk Flame workstations
- Safely and meticulously archiving and removing files at project completion via an automated archive solution
- Entering and logging incoming client material into a corporate wide database
- Recognize and understand the facility's priorities and prioritize workload accordingly
- Delegating daily departmental tasks to junior department members
- Mentor and help educate junior department members on department process and protocol
- Actively communicate with producers and coordinators, updating them on their data request's completion status.
- Take an active ownership in the Data Department's performance and efficiency

Job Requirements

- Excellent communication skills and the ability to respectfully interact with co-workers in a fast paced, professional environment
- Working knowledge of Black Magic's ''Resolve'' color solution / Adobe Media Encoder / Adobe Premiere
- Experience with Autodesk's Flame / Foundry's Nuke / Adobe Creative Suite / Filmlight's Baselight software
- Knowledge of modern professional digital cameras
- Ability to use Linux, or MAC OSX, or Microsoft's Windows workstations in a professional environment
- Working knowledge of Linux and/or DOS shell command line navigation
- Working knowledge of file server mount points and mapping of centralized storage in a multi-platform server based environment
- Thorough understanding of visual effects, color grading and computer graphic concepts and terminology
- Thorough understanding & knowledge of a computer network and remote server technology
- Working knowledge of transcoding and converting video formats / codecs / file formats / frame rates
- Experience using and troubleshooting IBM's Aspera Faspex and sftp data transfer applications in a professional environment

Desirable Skills:

- Knowledge of digital file color space / file bit depth / aspect ratios / video and audio codecs
- Working knowledge of permissible broadcast quality video & audio levels
- Ability to read and understand professional broadcast video & audio scope
- Python or shell scripting experience, is a considerable plus