Cloud Engineer

Overview

Cloud Engineer - Media & Entertainment Workflows. At GPL Technologies, our mission is to provide powerful, reliable, and innovative technology services and leadership to creative companies by combining specialized industry expertise with excellence in engineering. We are a rapidly growing technology services firm that caters to Hollywood’s movie studios, gaming companies, visual effects houses, and advertising firms. Our vision is to expand GPL’s presence globally, building an elite team of technology specialists focused on empowering creatives to achieve their vision without worrying about managing technology.

The Cloud Engineer will help design and deploy creative production workflows in the cloud, developing systems for top studios to provide artists the tools they need to create film, television, and video game content. This role involves working with render farms (Deadline), cross-platform environments (Windows, macOS, Linux), and packaging apps with Conda to customize solutions for customers. Strong English communication and the ability to translate customer requirements into technical deliverables are essential.

Responsibilities

Engage directly with customers to assess their VFX production workflows and identify opportunities to streamline creative processes in the cloud.

Design, deploy, and optimize cloud-based production environments that support rendering, collaboration, and data management.

Integrate AWS Deadline Cloud into customer pipelines to maximize efficiency and scalability.

Design and deploy cloud-based infrastructure for artist workstations, render nodes, and collaborative storage solutions.

Implement best practices for secure, high-performance remote workflows, including networking, VPNs, and Bastion host setups.

Automate deployment and maintenance tasks using Ansible and other infrastructure-as-code tools.

Provide guidance on cross-platform interoperability, ensuring seamless integration across Windows, macOS, and Linux environments.

Support customers with filesystem architecture, NAS solutions, and scalable storage management.

Work closely with engineering and pipeline teams to troubleshoot complex render and workflow challenges.

Preferred Qualifications / Skills

Excellent English communication skills – ability to clearly articulate complex technical concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Proven experience working directly with customers to design and deploy cloud-based solutions for creative workflows.

Proficiency in Linux (multi-distro preferred).

Strong AWS experience, particularly in EC2, FSx, VPNs, and networking.

Experience with render farm management (Deadline) and familiarity with creative artist tools (Maya, Nuke, Houdini, Cinema 4D, etc.).

Solid understanding of networking, VPNs, and cloud infrastructure.

Familiarity with SSH, Bastion hosts, and secure access workflows.

Strong scripting and automation skills (e.g., Python, Bash, Terraform, or Ansible).

If you’re passionate about cloud-based media workflows, customer engagement, and high-performance computing, we’d love to hear from you!

Job type

Full-time

Remote work from home

About Us

GPL Technologies helps studios, VFX companies, post-production facilities, creators, artists, and producers become more effective—faster, less expensive, more collaborative, with fewer headaches, and with more productivity anywhere in the world. We work with leading industry organizations to deliver optimized IT solutions for content creators and media services providers. We seek strong, self-driven candidates who are entrepreneurial and able to adapt ideas through collaboration.

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