Is Pixar moving towards Mac OS X? A recent Job Opening on Pixar’s web site is looking for a ‘Mac OS X Systems Administrator.’
Responsibilities
– Serve as a technical lead on Unix-related Mac OS X projects.
– Serve as escalation point for Unix-related Mac OS X issues.
– Identify tasks which require automation and automate them.
– Resolve support requests and perform infrastructure maintenance:
– Troubleshoot hardware and software problems, both workstation and server.
– Troubleshoot network and remote access connectivity problems.
– Perform general system maintenance and support.
– Install, upgrade, and maintain hardware, software, and peripherals.
– Produce documentation.
– Train end-users as needed.
– Recommend and establish policies on system use and services.
– Assist other administrators in maintaining standard software configurations.
– Assist other IS staff as needed.
Additional qualifications and application information are here.
this job has been posted for several months dude.
The “Film-On-Line Tools Engineer, Studio Tools” position also
requests Cocoa and/or Next developement experience:
http://www.pixar.com/companyinfo/jobs/openings/filmtoolseng.html
Pixar has been using Macs for early design work on various projects. Final rendering is done in other formats, however. Nothing really new here.
Wheww, I’m doing such a job right now, but this guy will have a hell of a job! Especially automating everything what can be automated…
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I think it will be hard for the guy/girl who takes it.
I would like to see if it fits me, but I’m in Belgium, and so it will be hard for me to apply
Damn nice firm Pixar!
Pixar has been on OS X for SOME TIME…They used Radmind at one point (posted a bit to the list) this is not new.
The best part of the job is at the bottom of the Helpful Qualifications:
Experience navigating and controlling real-time 3D environments such as Quake and Unreal.
You bet this is a kiss-your-family-goodbye job!
A friend of mine applied for an OS X position at Pixar last year and turned it down. The job he applied for (and got an offer for) required he wear a pager and be on call 24/7.
Defintely a kiss-your-life-goodbye kinda job.
Bill
In this day and age with the economy mostly down, I personally don’t mind having a job where I wear a pager and am on call 24/7. I also have a company cell phone. I like to think of it as a form of limited job security.
they run various OSes and various hardware. At least a couple of flavors or *nix, to boot. this job posting, which has been up for a while, like S. Rice noted, doesn’t mean that they are converting all they have to X. It just doesn’t.
Pixar is not moving to Mac OS X over the hole line. Just for the nonproduction computers. The computers that are used for printing and for checking email.
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