Production Support Engineer

  • San Antonio
  • Havas Group

Agency: HPS Magma

Job Description Summary: The role of Production Support Engineer, within our Production Technology Team, will be focused on providing remote support of our production technology stack for our New York Studio. You will be working closely with two engineers based on-site in New York and reporting to the Head of Production Technology based in London. We are looking for someone passionate about all things tech and media production.

Job Description: Our Technology Stack

  • Apple Mac hard computers running MacOS
  • Adobe Creative Cloud
  • Jump Desktop
  • Iconik.io
  • Ziflow
  • LucidLink
  • Edit Share
  • Aspera

Responsibilities :

  • Provide remote technical support to our Havas Studio staff (makers and producers)
  • Liaising with Havas IT desktop and infrastructure teams including managing incidents and escalations
  • Writing and maintaining documentation on various technical systems and procedures in team wiki
  • Assist onboarding new users to our tech stack
  • Manage Jump Desktop farm (update and set up new users)
  • Attend regular team meetings (tech and production)
  • Help manage asset lifecycle including archiving and restoring assets to various technologies

Required Skills & Experience

  • Extensive experience in supporting post-production teams
  • Good level of spoken and written English
  • Strong communication skills
  • Ability to work as part of a team or individually
  • In depth knowledge of MacOS (Big Sur and Monterey)
  • Positive, “can-do” attitude
  • Ability to work under pressure
  • Good working knowledge of: Adobe Creative Cloud, Avid Pro Tools, Cinema 4D, and common media plugins
  • Basic understanding of networking concepts

Desirable Skills

  • Windows and Linux systems
  • Microsoft 365 and Azure AD
  • Cloud compute platforms such as AWS, Azure, and GCP
  • Scripting and Automation (such as AppleScript, Javascript, Python)

Skills: Contract Type: Permanent

Here at Havas across the group we pride ourselves on being committed to offering equal opportunities to all potential employees and have zero tolerance for discrimination. We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome applicants irrespective of age, sex, race, ethnicity, disability and other factors that have no bearing on an individual’s ability to perform their job.