Business Unit : Company 3
Location : Toronto, ON (On Site)
Pay Range : $33.65 - $43.27 CAD hourly
The Systems Administrator will administer, maintain, and support the core infrastructure for Company 3 and SDFX across post-production, color, finishing, editorial, VFX, and audio mixing environments. Working alongside Senior Systems Engineers, this role ensures studio infrastructure remains reliable, performant, and secure by implementing infrastructure changes, resolving escalated issues, and contributing to projects. The successful candidate will bring hands-on experience with Linux systems, enterprise storage, virtualization technologies, and networking. Information Security, Production Operations, and local studio leadership at Company 3 and SDFX.
Administer and maintain servers, render infrastructure, storage systems, virtualization platforms, cloud resources, and network services.
Administer and support Isilon storage, Quantum StorNext, Ceph storage clusters, Fibre Channel fabrics, and Proxmox virtualization environments.
Implement infrastructure changes, upgrades, and configurations based on designs by senior Systems Engineers.
Manage user accounts, access permissions, and identity and access management systems.
Monitoring & Troubleshooting
Monitor system health, performance, storage capacity, and utilization, then respond to alerts.
Respond to, prioritize, and resolve infrastructure support tickets in line with service-level expectations.
Perform root-cause analysis and escalate complex architectural issues to Senior Systems Engineers with clear diagnostic information.
Production Technology Support
Collaborate with Production and Operations teams to ensure infrastructure supports current and upcoming projects across Company 3 and SDFX.
Support the deployment and integration of new production technologies and workflow improvements.
Communicate clearly with non-technical users and stakeholders throughout issues and outages.
Projects & Documentation




Participate in infrastructure deployments, upgrades, and migrations.
Develop and maintain technical documentation, procedures, and knowledge base articles.
Ensure infrastructure complies with Company 3 security policies, industry best practices, and customer security requirements.
The ideal candidate will have proven working experience in systems administration or infrastructure. They must have experience supporting enterprise infrastructure across media, post-production, VFX, broadcast, or related creative industries, as well as have strong working knowledge of Linux systems administration, enterprise storage, network infrastructure and services, virtualization, and identity and access management. Experience with Bash or Python scripting for automation.
Strong troubleshooting and root-cause analysis skills.
Experience supporting color, editorial, finishing, VFX, rendering, or production workflows is preferred.
Experience with cloud platforms, such as AWS or Azure, and hybrid infrastructure is preferred
Experience with configuration management tools such as Ansible is preferred.
Experience with ticketing systems and IT service management practices is preferred.
Company 3, including its various business units and family of brands, provides a full range of Creative Services for content creators, including conceptual design, pre-vis, look development, ideation and rapid prototyping, 3D animation/CGI, motion graphics/designers, matte painting, compositing, dailies and production services, color grading, post-production finishing, marketing/trailers, live-action production,



experiences, and more.
Diversity and Inclusion at Company 3:
Creativity has diversity at its core. It is our policy to provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees. Please inform the Company's HR representative if you need assistance completing any forms or otherwise need any accommodation or support in order to participate in the application process.
*The listed pay range represents the lowest to highest range that we in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. An employee’s pay position within the range may be based on several factors including, but limited to, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, geographic location, local currency exchange rates, performance, shift, travel requirements, sales or revenue-based metrics, applicable law, and business or organizational needs.
The benefits for eligible part time employees working 25 or more hours per week and full-time employees in the US include a comprehensive package of health, retirement, and insurance benefits and paid time off. The benefits for eligible project hires and part-time employees working less than 25 hours per week in the US include retirement, select insurance benefits, and where required by law, health benefits. For roles filled in Canada and other territories, local perks plan offerings as adopted and amended from time to time will apply.
The above compensation and benefits information is provided in accordance with various state, provincial, and local pay transparency laws.
The Company generally only contacts those individuals who have submitted an application which it wishes to interview. To the extent required by applicable law, the Company will contact candidates who are interviewed, within 45 days of their last interview, to advise as to whether or not a hiring decision has been made.

📌 IT Administrator / System Administrator (m/f/d) Full-time / Part-time (Toronto)
🏢 Company3
📍 Toronto