Senior VFX Network Architect for Render Farms

Thea Energy seeks a Senior VFX Network Engineer contractor to manage a high-bandwidth, low-latency infrastructure for render farms and real-time artist collaboration. You will design spine-leaf networks, optimize NFS/SMB storage, and enable multi-cloud rendering pipelines across Linux/Windows environments.

Responsibilities include deploying Deadline Cloud Submitter, per-show environment loaders, and batch asset transfers, while maintaining low latency for OpenGL-based tools and ensuring thorough