The Technical Director will play a key role in developing and maintaining production pipelines, while also acting as a frontline support resource for artists, coordinators, and producers. The position works closely with the Los Angeles-based Technical Director team, requiring clear communication and effective cross-time-zone collaboration.

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable production tools, pipelines, and workflows for VFX production.
• Provide day-to-day technical support to production teams, troubleshooting issues across pipeline, tools, and data flow.
• Act as a bridge between technical and non-technical stakeholders, translating requirements into actionable solutions.
• Support and maintain production tracking app using Flow Production Tracking and related tools.
• Assist with large-scale data transfers, including troubleshooting and operational support for platforms such as Signiant and Aspera.
• Document workflows, tools, and issues clearly for cross-site collaboration, including JIRA tickets and internal communications.
• Collaborate with the Los Angeles Technical Director team to ensure continuity of support across time zones.
• Take ownership of a wide range of tasks, from high-level pipeline engineering to hands-on technical assistance as needed.

Qualifications and Experience:

• Expert-level proficiency in Python for pipeline and tool development.
• Strong experience building and maintaining VFX production pipelines and workflows.
• Deep familiarity with Flow Production Tracking (Shotgrid).
• Experience with industry-standard review tools such as RV and DaVinci Resolve.
• Strong understanding of production environments, file systems, and asset management.

Perks:

• 25 days annual leave
• Private medical insurance & dental care
• Free Park Entry: opportunity to enter any Disney parks with family and friends for free
• Disney Discounts: discounts on designated Disney products, resort F&B, and ticketing
• Excellent parental and guardian leave
• Employee Resource Groups

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These roles offer a front-row view of large-scale feature film and series production at one of the world's premier studio facilities. You will gain hands-on exposure to cutting-edge production technology workflows spanning editorial, VFX, streaming and on-set systems, while ensuring seamless technology support from initial prep through principal photography, to post-production, delivery and wrap.

As an IT Coordinator, you are the primary on-the-ground technology partner for your production - responsible for keeping workstations, networks, editorial infrastructure, streaming and review systems, and communication tools running reliably in fast-paced, high-pressure environments. You will work closely with the Production Technology programme team, studio engineering, third-party vendors and production crew to deliver stable, secure and repeatable technical environments tailored to each show.

Key Responsibilities

General You will coordinate with external vendors for hardware procurement, equipment rentals, network provisioning and managed services - ensuring delivery aligns with production milestones. Acting as the production-side technical liaison, you will translate creative and operational requirements into clear, actionable requests for studio engineering, content security and enterprise IT teams.

• Monitor and manage production technology budgets
• Ensure compliance with content security requirements
• Develop and maintain production-specific IT documentation, including network diagrams, equipment inventories, troubleshooting guides and runbooks

Production Office & Infrastructure You will set up, configure and maintain production office workstations and user environments. Responsibilities include supporting production network infrastructure (VLANs, Wi-Fi and wired connectivity), integrating with studio backbone networks and supporting shared storage systems such as Avid Nexis, NAS/SAN platforms and cloud storage used across editorial, VFX and production departments.

• Manage user accounts, permissions and software licensing
• Ensure alignment with enterprise identity and access management policies
• Coordinate WAN connectivity, firewall rules and site-wide network integration with studio engineering teams

On-Set IT Support You will provide hands-on support for on-set technology, including wireless networks, video village connectivity, data wrangling stations and dailies playback systems. This includes ensuring reliable internet connectivity on location by coordinating with third-party ISPs, venue IT teams and mobile connectivity providers for unit base, hotels and remote sets.

• Support camera-to-editorial workflows including data ingest and media management
• Maintain connectivity to post-production pipelines
• Manage radio frequency coordination to avoid on-set interference

Editorial & Post-Production Technology You will support editorial environments running Avid Media Composer with shared Nexis storage, including workspace configuration, connectivity troubleshooting and workflow support. You will assist in setting up and maintaining review and approval workflows using streaming platforms and local playback systems.

• Supporting VFX review and colour grading signal chains (SDI/HDMI routing, format conversion, calibrated monitoring)
• Assisting with secure remote editorial workflows where required
• Ensuring ongoing compliance with content security standards

What You'll Bring

Technical Experience

• Proven experience in IT support, ideally within film, television, media or live event production
• Strong working knowledge of macOS and Windows environments, including deployment, imaging, and troubleshooting
• Solid understanding of networking fundamentals: TCP/IP, VLANs, Wi-Fi deployment, VPNs, firewalls, and basic diagnostics
• Familiarity with production-specific tools such as Qtake, Moxion, Jump Desktop, PIX, and Shotgrid
• Experience with remote viewing and streaming platforms (e.g. ClearView Flex/Pivot, Evercast, Cinesync, Sohonet) preferred
• Understanding of SDI/HDMI signal chains and calibrated monitoring environments
• Experience supporting Avid Media Composer workflows and editorial infrastructure is highly desirable

Professional Skills

• Excellent troubleshooting and problem-solving abilities
• Strong documentation habits and attention to detail
• Comfortable working independently while keeping stakeholders informed
• Able to explain technical concepts clearly to non-technical crew
• Confident translating production needs into technical requirements for engineering teams
• Experience supporting multi-site or international productions and distributed teams
• Comfortable working across production offices, soundstages, and outdoor locations

Additional Information

• Roles may involve irregular hours, including weekends
• Travel may be required domestically and internationally
• Manual handling of equipment up to 15kg may be required
• A valid driving license and access to a vehicle are essential

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Our Production Security and Content Protection teams provide oversight, assistance and response for production needs worldwide including talent security, production security, set location and off-site remote location security, investigative support, travel security and alert monitoring.

In an emergency, the Production Security Coordinator will respond, oversee and direct the production team. They contribute support by providing operational capabilities and policy or procedural recommendations in the performance of essential services, liaising with third party security vendors, law enforcement and emergency services, and in the formulation and dissemination of security related plans. Further, they operate as the central communication point for security related incidents for all production related activity and locations.

The Production Security Coordinator will oversee the safety and security of an active production. They are responsible for communicating to crew at all levels, talent and production executives, exercising discretion and assertion when issues arise.

It is important to understand the overall objectives of a production and balance them alongside any security objectives. The Production Security Coordinator is responsible for managing the security planning to facilitate the needs and requirements of the production, minimising risk where possible. They are the on the ground advisors to the production leadership for identifying and mitigating security risks.

Successful candidates who meet the required criteria may be recommended to productions as freelance Production Security Coordinators.

_Please note: These roles are contracted directly by individual productions and are not employed by Disney._

Key Responsibilities:

• Head up the Security department on your assigned production.
• Develop and maintain relationships with key production contacts (e.g. Production Supervisor, Production Coordinators and other Department heads). You will regularly contribute in meetings.
• Collaborate with the production to develop security plans and policies to mitigate identified risks, to include ongoing assessment and improvement of plans in alignment with Disney and industry production security standards.
• Evaluation of production locations including film locations, stages, sets, workshops and offices to establish risk profile. Subsequently develop risk-based mitigation measures to be implemented in security planning.
• Maintain awareness and track uncontrollable risks that could impact a given production (such as severe weather, social unrest, crime etc)
• Provide daily briefings and reminders to crew enforcing security compliance
• Ongoing management of security planning in collaboration with the Locations department and security vendor to ensure adequate staffing numbers and quality personnel.
• Connect with local authorities and make sure that all plans and procedures comply with local rules and regulations
• Support the safety and security of the cast, crew, members of staff and intellectual property.
• Social media research for any relevant information referencing the cast or the production
• Report any building, location or stage security issues for proactive reconciliation
• Proactively monitor and review the production schedule for any changes that will result in adjustments or additional security considerations (e.g. offsite sound recordings, locations, production weekend working or studio-based requirements)
• Communicate with the Global Security Production Manager on a weekly basis with any updates or concerns

What You’ll Bring:

• Proven experience in private sector security, law enforcement, military or production environments, including management experience of both direct and indirect reports and/or vendors.
• Demonstrative ability to work independently while managing multiple projects, exercising good judgment to solve unexpected situations in a timely manner. You demonstrate resiliency, sound judgement and tact in dealing with business and corporate challenges
• Strong operational capability with experience executing operational contingency plans based on threats and exposure to production talent, crew, assets, locations and company brand.
• Working knowledge of physical security systems to include, but not limited to intrusion detection systems, CCTV, alarm monitoring systems, communications devices and other security related hardware and software
• Working knowledge of production security as required to conduct investigations, assessments and provide recommendations and/or implement the security measures needed to protect talent, production locations, facilities and intellectual property.
• Attention to accuracy as well as the ability to work under pressure, consistently meet deadlines, and prioritise according to business needs.
• Maintain a valid divers license and guard licence (if/where required by local law).
• First Aid, CPR and AED Certification is preferable
• Strong cross-group collaboration and relationship management skills including directing and coordinating third party vendors and partners to achieve deliverables
• Experience conducting security advances, on the ground production security support and developing risk assessments
• CP license is preferred.

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