Contract - Senior VFX Network Engineer (VFX)

Location: Remote

Rate: Hourly rates on a 1099 contract, depending on experience and location.

Company

hirify.global is hiring for its Technology – Software department to support VFX infrastructure, rendering pipelines, and artist collaboration systems.

What you will do

• Research and implement networking strategies for VFX CG visualization workflows.
• Define architecture with VFX and Corporate Technology teams for networks, storage, render farms, servers, and virtual workstations.
• Configure and validate AWS Deadline Cloud Submitter, render queues, render nodes, and multi-show rendering workflows.
• Build an internal 3D asset transfer system for batch transfers between artist desktops and virtual machines.
• Optimize low-latency OpenGL-dependent DCC applications across desktop, VM, and remote desktop environments.
• Troubleshoot stalled frames and crashing render jobs and document systems, architecture, and procedures.

Requirements

• Engineering-level knowledge of Maya, Arnold, Mudbox, Unreal, Nuke, ShotGrid, SyncSketch, and Adobe Creative Cloud.
• Extensive experience configuring and optimizing VFX pipeline networks and render farms across Linux and Windows.
• 5+ years of Linux, macOS, and Windows system administration experience, including networking and scripting.
• Strong Python and Bash skills, including Maya userSetup.py-style scripts and MEL/Python callback timing.
• Experience with enterprise workstations, render farms, storage clusters, cloud computing, servers, NFS, NAS, and CG asset/render filesystems.
• Experience with Arnold render-device configuration, Deadline or another render-farm queue manager, Git, per-show environment systems, and network data-transfer optimization.

Nice to have

• Experience with Entra ID and Intune-managed Windows endpoints.
• Experience creating artist-facing tools and plugins for Maya, Arnold, Mudbox, ShotGrid, Houdini, or Nuke.
• Familiarity with ACES OCIO, LUT systems, media encoding, transcoding, Docker, or AWS.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote contract engagement.
• Hourly 1099 contractor arrangement.
• Rate varies according to experience and location.
• Handoff-focused collaboration between VFX and Corporate Technology teams.