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Description
As a Render Technical Director (Render TD), you will be responsible for ensuring the smooth running of the rendering and lighting tools, software and workflows used on our award-winning VFX and Feature Animation shows. You will be providing front-line technical support to lighting artists, identifying inefficiencies in workflows and troubleshooting lighting scenes to enable our talented lighting artists to deliver world-class work on each show.
Our Render TDs are highly technical and demonstrate an aptitude for creative problem solving. You will regularly be required to:
- provide face-to-face support and assistance for lighting artists
- assist with the creation of technical robust setups, such as light rigs and scene templates, for use throughout our shows
- contribute to testing and provide feedback for software releases from our R&D teams that impact lighting and rendering
- help identify and resolve inefficiencies in the lighting and rendering pipeline
As well as being able to demonstrate technical skill and initiative, you will need to be an excellent communicator and be able to work enthusiastically in a highly collaborative environment. You will work closely with our Render Supervisors as well as supervisors from other departments, such as Model, Texture, Look Development and FX, to identify and highlight rendering considerations and help optimize their lighting tools and workflows. Your ability to aid communication between these departments in the reporting and resolving of issues and to accurately communicate between technical developers and non-technical artists will help you thrive in this role.
Above all, you will be working as part of a team of exceptionally talented TDs and Render Supervisors alongside our dynamic and creative R&D department, contributing to the production of exceptional VFX and Animation work on projects ranging from blockbuster epics to television dramas.
Must have:
- Previous experience in the visual effects or a related industry
- Practical experience with lighting and rendering DCCs such as Clarisse, Katana and Houdini
- Experience with path tracing renderers such as Clarisse, Renderman and Mantra
Nice to have:
- Render wrangling experience
- Look development experience
- Shader writing experience
- Python programming skills
- Experience writing tools ands scripts for the lighting pipeline
About Us
We are DNEG, one of the world’s leading VFX and animation studios for the creation of award-winning feature film, television and multiplatform content. We employ nearly 8,000 people with worldwide offices and studios across North America (Los Angeles, Montréal, Toronto, Vancouver), Europe (London) and Asia (Bangalore, Mohali,Chennai, Mumbai).

JOB ROLE : AI Video Generator / Motion Graphic Designer with AI Skills
Key Responsibilities
- Video Creation & Animation
- Utilize AI-powered platforms to generate engaging videos and animations for the marketing company
- Prompt Engineering
Coordinate with marketers to understand requirements, campaign objectives, and content directions. Continuously review and improve the generated content to ensure visual quality, originality, and brand consistency. Stay updated with cutting-edge AI video creation tools and industry trends, integrating new skills and technologies as needed.
Required Skills & Qualifications
- Innovation and Quality oriented mindset
- Proficient in Adobe Illustrator, Premiere Pro, Photoshop, After Effects (or any similar platforms)
- Experience or strong interest in AI video generation tools (such as Hedra AI, Kling AI, VEO3, RunwayML, Synthesia, Pictory, or similar platforms).
- Thumbnail creation (e.g., Midjourney, Leonardo AI)
- Strong English writing skills and basic understanding
- Use AI Text-to-Speech tools (e.g., ElevenLabs, Descript) to generate voiceovers
- A portfolio showcasing your work.
- Creative mindset with an eye for high-quality content and digital storytelling.
- Team player with strong communication skills to liaise with the marketing department.
- Ability to blend AI + human creativity for seamless storytelling and marketing trends.
Benefits:
- Opportunities for professional growth and skill development.
- Collaborative and creative work environment.
- Flexible work culture.
- Provident Fund
- Team outing and Team lunch
Job Summary
We are seeking an experienced Senior System Administrator responsible for managing and maintaining the organisation’s IT infrastructure, including Windows and Linux servers, network devices, security systems, storage solutions, and enterprise applications. The role ensures high availability, security, and performance of all IT systems while supporting business operations.
Key Responsibilities
Server Administration
- Install, configure, and maintain Windows Server environments (Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, Group Policy).
- Manage and maintain Linux machines for application hosting and system services.
- Administer and maintain Application Servers supporting internal business applications.
- Manage and maintain Biometric Servers used for employee attendance and access control systems.
- Monitor server health, performance, and system logs.
- Perform system updates, patches, and security hardening.
Storage and File Services
- Manage and maintain Samba File Servers for shared storage and user access.
- Administer NAS storage systems (Synology), including storage allocation, access permissions, and performance monitoring.
- Ensure proper storage utilisation and secure data access.
Network Infrastructure Management
- Configure and manage Sophos Firewall, including firewall rules, NAT policies, VPN configuration, and threat protection.
- Configure and maintain Cisco and Netgear switches, including VLAN configuration and network segmentation.
- Manage and maintain wireless access points to ensure reliable and secure Wi-Fi connectivity.
- Monitor network performance and troubleshoot connectivity issues.
Proxy and Security Management
- Install, configure, and maintain Proxy Servers for internet access control and monitoring.
- Monitor firewall logs, network security alerts, and implement security policies.
- Ensure network infrastructure is protected against unauthorised access and threats.
Backup and Disaster Recovery
- Implement and manage backup and restore solutions for servers, NAS, and critical business data.
- Perform periodic backup verification and disaster recovery testing.
- Ensure backup policies and schedules are properly maintained.
Power and Infrastructure Management
- Monitor and maintain UPS systems to ensure an uninterrupted power supply for servers and network infrastructure.
- Coordinate with vendors for UPS maintenance, battery replacement, and power infrastructure reliability.
System Monitoring and Troubleshooting
- Proactively monitor servers, network devices, storage systems, and applications.
- Troubleshoot and resolve system, network, and application-related issues.
- Maintain proper documentation of infrastructure configurations and procedures.
Vendor and Infrastructure Coordination
- Coordinate with vendors for hardware procurement, infrastructure support, and service management.
- Plan and implement infrastructure upgrades and improvements.
Required Skills
- Strong experience with Windows Server Administration
- Good knowledge of Linux System Management
- Experience with Sophos Firewall
- Knowledge of Cisco and Netgear networking devices
- Experience with NAS storage (Synology) and Samba File Server
- Experience managing Application Servers and Biometric Systems
- Experience with Backup and Disaster Recovery
- Understanding of network security and monitoring
Senior Data Engineer
Experience: 5+ years
Chennai/ Trichy (Hybrid)
Type: Fulltime
Skills: GCP + Airflow + Bigquery + Python + Docker
The Role
As a Senior Data Engineer, you own new initiatives, design and build world-class platforms to measure and optimize ad performance. You ensure industry-leading scalability and reliability of mission-critical systems processing billions of real-time transactions a day. You apply state-of-the-art technologies, frameworks, and strategies to address complex challenges with Big Data processing and analytics. You work closely with the talented engineers across different time zones in building industry-first solutions to measure and optimize ad performance.
What you’ll do
● Write solid code with a focus on high performance for services supporting high throughput and low latency
● Architect, design, and build big data processing platforms handling tens of TBs/Day, serve thousands of clients, and support advanced analytic workloads
● Providing meaningful and relevant feedback to junior developers and staying up-to-date with system changes
● Explore the technological landscape for new ways of producing, processing, and analyzing data to gain insights into both our users and our product features
● Design, develop, and test data-driven products, features, and APIs that scale
● Continuously improve the quality of deliverables and SDLC processes
● Operate production environments, investigate issues, assess their impact, and develop feasible solutions.
● Understand business needs and work with product owners to establish priorities
● Bridge the gap between Business / Product requirements and technical details
● Work in multi-functional agile teams with end-to-end responsibility for product development and delivery
Who you are
● 3-5+ years of programming experience in coding, object-oriented design, and/or functional programming, including Python or a related language
● Love what you do and are passionate about crafting clean code, and have a steady foundation.
● Deep understanding of distributed system technologies, standards, and protocols, and have 2+ years of experience working in distributed systems like Airflow, BigQuery, Spark, Kafka Eco System ( Kafka Connect, Kafka Streams, or Kinesis), and building data pipelines at scale.
● Excellent SQL, DBT query writing abilities, and data understanding
● Care about agile software processes, data-driven development, reliability, and responsible experimentation
● Genuine desire to automate decision-making, processes, and workflows
● Experience working with orchestration tools like Airflow
● Good understanding of semantic layers and experience in tools like LookerML, Kube
● Excellent communication skills and a team player
● Google BigQuery or Snowflake
● Cloud environment, Google Cloud Platform
● Container technologies - Docker / Kubernetes
● Ad-serving technologies and standards
● Familiarity with AI tools like Cursor AI, CoPilot.
- Experienced in Selenium WebDriver
- Experience with Selector Web Elements, Particularly XPath
- Aware of Core Selenium concepts like different types of Wait, Complex X Paths, Selenium Grid etc.
- Expertise in Java programming language
- Knowhow of Jenkins and setting up a Continuous Delivery pipeline
- Apache POI API for reading and writing data to excel.
- Experienced working in IDE : Preferably Eclipse.
- Experienced in Version Control tool : GIT or SVN.
- Experienced in Testing Framework: Preferably TestNG or JUnit.
- Experienced in Build Tools: ANT and Maven.
- Expertise in at least one programming language - Java/C#
| Experience:3-8 years Location: Chennai Requirements: 1) Technical expertise in Apache , PHP , Jquery , Javascripts and hands on in managing web based applications. 2) Should have worked in Vtiger Framework concepts. 3) Demonstrates effective oral and written communication skills. 4) Should be Analytical and methodical. 5) Handling Team on min 2 and experience in Development ,Testing and production support. 6) Worked on Linux Server and Apache web service |
The primary purpose of this internship is to provide freshers with knowledge in web development. We conduct weekly communication classes to enhance communication skills. Additionally, special orientation classes covering topics such as customer satisfaction and work ethics. You will be given training on interview preparation. Our training method simulates the corporate training approach, where students report to their mentors. By the end of this internship, you will have a strong foundation in web development.
About us:
HappyFox is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) support platform. We offer an enterprise-grade help desk ticketing system and intuitively designed live chat software.
We serve over 12,000 companies in 70+ countries. HappyFox is used by companies that span across education, media, e-commerce, retail, information technology, manufacturing, non-profit, government and many other verticals that have an internal or external support function.
To know more, Visit! - https://www.happyfox.com/
Responsibilities:
- Perform manual and automated application penetration tests and provide suggestions to harden our products
- Participate regularly in the development and release process to identify and report security vulnerabilities in the code being shipped
- Conduct regular audits on all Features/APIs of the product and reports vulnerabilities to the development team
- Keep up with industry trends in the security space
- Triage inbound vulnerability reports with an appropriate level of urgency and track them until they are resolved by Engineering teams
- Should be able to understand different elements of our NodeJS, Python and similar stacks and provide guidance on secure software development practices to the team
- Scale our application security engineering team
Requirements:
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Has worked on Web Application Security Testing for a reasonably complex application. The mobile experience is a plus
- Good knowledge of secure software development guidelines from authoritative bodies like NIST, OWASP, SANS
- Hands-on experience in performing manual/automated security assessments with open-source/commercial security tools
MUST have skills (not just a class room training experience please) –
- Hands on experience on Postman/ SOAP UI/ REST ASSURED/JUnit framework for API testing
- Hands on experience on GIT, JIRA, Jenkins
- Good Understanding of REST API types (GET, PUT, POST, DELETE) an it’s working
- Good understanding of HTTP, JSON protocol and syntax
- Good understanding of Message Schema, RAML, Message Request-Response mechanism
- Working experience in Agile methodology.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills (English).
- The candidate should be good with communication as he/she will be interacting with global teams very often.
GOOD to have –
- Understanding of STUB/Service virtualization
- Understanding of any API testing tools like –Rest Client, Anypoint etc.
- Been able to understand Retail Banking functions/requirements.
Key Activities
- Primary responsibility for test automation within Agile delivery streams
- Experience with building test automation frameworks and Continued Integration
• Some amount of manual exploratory testing
• Test preparation, test design, execution and reporting
• Defect management lifecycle exposure (using Jira) from defect reporting to tracking to closure
• Writing test plans and test completion reports
• Active in Agile meetings when required for planning, retrospectives
Role Description:
- Lister is actively engaged with client across digital transformation and engineering
- As a part of this engagement, you will be working with our clients on solution design and architecture, technology decisions, while co-ordinating technical efforts for the team
- As a Technical Lead:, You will need to collaborate with Solution Architects define technology
- roadmap, evaluate/recommend technologies, architect and design solutions, Work
- with other developers to oversee the development and implementation
- You will translate functional requirements from business stakeholders to the technical
- team for implementation
- You will need to troubleshoot design flaws and system bottlenecks
- You will have to be hands-on with code reviews and evaluate implementation for performance and scale
- Manage communication between our clients and internal teams in India and USA
- Coordinate with the offshore team to deliver projects across work streams, Identify risks, issues and blockers to progress and mitigate them for the team
- Rapidly gain an understanding of project requirements and drive execution
- Work with delivery team to ensure the highest quality of materials are being produced and all client needs are met.
Skills Required:
- Excellent understanding of backend and frontend components in the following stack: NodeJS, TypeScript, Javascript, ReactJS, multiple RDBMS and NoSQL databases like Postgres, MySQL, MongoDB Experience of working on AWS services (Lambda, Step functions, SQS, S3 SNS)
- Microservice design pattern is a must
- Experience in Docker, Kubernetes, containerization and CI/CD pipelines is preferable
- Experience in software development tools like Prettier, CodeCov, Snyk, etc..
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills; client facing and interpersonal skills; must be a listener, a presenter, and a people-person
- Experience in Designing scalable architecture systems for Node-based applications
- Ability to grasp complex implementations; Proven results of delivering client solutions
- Should have experience of working with offshore team
- Experience in working on large scale technology transformation projects for product companies is preferable
- Technology contributions to open source projects will be an added advantage
- Should have completed Certifications or training on AWS (AWS Solutions Architect), NodeJS, front-end frameworks.
· Requires 4+ years of cumulative industry experience in various UX Design disciplines with
Wireframing & UX prototypes.
· Degree in design is a nice to have (UX, Visual, Graphic and/or Interaction)
· Strong portfolio that demonstrates systems thinking and core skills across a variety of categories
and formats
· Fluency with common design software for the creation of wireframes, design mocks and
prototypes including (Sketch, InVision and Zeppelin a plus)
· Agility in creating digital sketches/prototypes from lo-fi to hi-fi
· Strong communicator and excellent interpersonal skills.
· Design experience for mobile and touch devices a plus. Design experience for ecommerce
platforms is a plus.
· A positive attitude, open mind, and a desire to collaborate with and learn from multi-disciplinary
global teams.
· Flexibility to work across time zones with US based teams and stakeholders
Ability to work closely with engineering teams for product and marketing launches.


