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Lead Render Wrangler at Swaybox Studios | LAYIQ

Assist with the setup, configuration, testing, and rollout of the studio's render farm infrastructure in collaboration with Pipeline and IT.
Lead the day-to-day operation and monitoring of the render farm, ensuring render jobs are processing efficiently and production priorities are being met.
Monitor render queues, machine availability, worker health, job failures, storage usage, and overall farm utilization.
Troubleshoot failed, stalled, or inefficient render jobs and identify whether issues originate from scenes, assets, software, licensing, hardware, plugins, or pipeline configuration.
Work closely with artists and department leads to diagnose rendering issues and provide clear guidance on next steps.
Coordinate render priorities with VFX Production, Supervisors, and department leads based on production schedules, reviews, and delivery deadlines.
Help establish and maintain render farm policies, queue structures, priorities, resource allocation, and best practices.
Support a hybrid rendering environment that may include dedicated CPU/GPU render nodes, artist workstations utilized during off-hours, and cloud-based rendering resources.
Assist Pipeline and IT with testing new render hardware, software versions, plugins, licenses, and configurations before deployment into production.
Monitor farm capacity and utilization trends and communicate potential bottlenecks or resource shortages to Production, Pipeline, and IT.
Track and report useful render metrics, including render times, machine utilization, job failure rates, queue volume, and capacity requirements.
Help identify unusually expensive or inefficient renders and work with artists and technical teams to determine potential optimizations.
Support the integration and testing of cloud rendering and assist with determining when additional cloud capacity may be required to meet production demand.
Help establish procedures for escalating technical issues to Pipeline, IT, or department Technical Directors.
Maintain clear documentation for render farm workflows, troubleshooting procedures, common errors, and operational best practices.
Develop processes for shift handoffs and communication so that render issues, priorities, and outstanding problems are clearly documented.
Train, mentor, and provide day-to-day guidance to additional Render Wranglers as the render team grows.
Collaborate with Pipeline and Production to continuously improve render submission, monitoring, reporting, and resource-management workflows.
Required Qualifications
Previous experience in a lead or senior Render Wrangler position, working in VFX, animation, feature film, or another high-volume CG production environment
Experience mentoring or overseeing other Render Wranglers.
Professional experience with render wrangling, render farm operations, pipeline support, systems support, or a comparable technical production role.
Strong understanding of CG rendering workflows and the relationship between artists, render software, render farms, storage, and production pipelines.
Experience working with a render farm management or queue-management system such as Deadline, OpenCue, Qube!, Tractor, or similar.
Experience troubleshooting failed render jobs and interpreting render logs and error messages.
Familiarity with common VFX and CG applications such as Maya, Houdini, Nuke, Unreal Engine, or similar production software.
Experience working with cloud render management services such as AWS Deadline Cloud or similar cloud infrastructure.
Experience managing hybrid render environments combining on-premises hardware and cloud resources.
Experience with Deadline Monitor, Deadline Client, and management of Deadline Workers.
Working knowledge of Windows and/or Linux environments, file systems, network storage, and shared production resources.
Ability to distinguish between scene-related, pipeline-related, licensing, network, storage, and hardware issues and escalate appropriately.
Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities in a deadline-driven production environment.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills and the ability to explain technical issues clearly to both technical and non-technical team members.
Ability to work independently, take ownership of problems, and follow issues through to resolution.
Comfortable working in an evolving production environment where workflows, tools, and infrastructure may continue to change as production scales.

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