What we’re up to at Untold

We are a creative community - a team of world-class talent, visionary clients, and an exciting future ahead. As a studio, our people and culture are at the core of everything we do. Our purpose is simple: to create outstanding content that captivates audiences, while enjoying every step of the journey.

The Role

We're seeking a cloud architect to join our team of Technologists to design, build, and innovate our existing cloud infrastructure that supports our cutting-edge visual effects studio. You'll architect scalable solutions that enable artists to work seamlessly across multi-datacenter environments, evaluate and adopt emerging cloud services and VFX cloud technologies, and drive the evolution of our cloud-native workflows. This role combines strategic infrastructure design, requiring both vision and pragmatism to balance innovation, performance, and cost efficiency.

Your Key Responsibilities:

• Design and Architect new cloud-based production capabilities and workflows

• Evaluate and prototype emerging Cloud services and VFX cloud technologies

•  Optimise existing cloud infrastructure for performance and cost efficiency

• Implement monitoring, alerting, and cost tracking systems

• Manage cloud storage solutions ( Weka, Qumulo and similar high-performance storage)

• Design and implement multi-datacenter/multi-region strategies

• Collaborate with the pipeline team on cloud resource requirements

• Ensure security, compliance, and disaster recovery best practices

• Work with various teams, including developers, security, and executive leadership, to align Technology with business goals

• Research and implement next-generation storage and data movement solutions

• Partner with the pipeline team to enable new production methodologies

• Create proof-of-concepts for business-critical initiatives

Required Skills:

• 5+ years AWS (or other cloud) experience with proven architecture expertise

• Knowledge of EC2 instance types, families, and fleet management (Spot, On-Demand, Reserved)

• Expertise in AWS services: S3, EC2, VPC, Route53, IAM, CloudWatch, Cost Explorer

• Experience with cloud storage performance optimisation and data transfer

• Strong understanding of cloud cost management

• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation)

• Multi-region architecture and datacenter connectivity experience

• Networking fundamentals: VPN, Direct Connect, Transit Gateway, subnetting, routing

• Linux system administration (Rocky Linux/RHEL experience preferred)

Highly Desired but not essential:

• Software development experience within cloud environments

• Experience setting up Autodesk Flame in cloud environments (AWS) - huge plus

• Understanding of media/entertainment workflows and streaming protocols such as NDI and CDI

• Familiarity with render farm architecture or HPC workloads

• Previous work in VFX, animation, or post-production environments

We are committed to supporting you and your ongoing development. We will work closely with you to establish your personal progression plan. You are never on your own.