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WHAT MAKES US EPIC?At the core of Epic’s success are talented, passionate people. Epic prides itself on creating a collaborative, welcoming, and creative environment. Whether it’s building award-winning games or crafting engine technology that enables others to make visually stunning interactive experiences, we’re always innovating. Being Epic means being a part of a team that continually strives to do right by our community and users. We’re constantly innovating to raise the bar of engine and game development. DATA ENGINEERINGWhat We DoOur mission is to provide a world-class platform that empowers the business to leverage data that will enhance, monitor, and support our products. We are responsible for data ingestion systems, processing pipelines, and various data stores all operating in the cloud. We operate at a petabyte scale, and support near real-time use cases as well as more traditional batch approaches. What You'll DoThe Technical Librarian will be the first dedicated member of the Data Management team, supporting 3Lateral Services and the R&D groups within both the MetaHuman product department and the wider Epic Games group. You will be instrumental in ensuring that all captured data is managed efficiently and that a consistent approach is provided to data management. A successful candidate not only has strong technical expertise but also excels in communication and teamwork. In this role, you willPropose, drive, develop, and implement data management and storage process improvements, optimization, and best practices, including writing scripts to automate data deletion processes. Have a great understanding of storage infrastructure (data locations, server features, archive, capacity, availability, projections, etc.) and pipeline. Manage data access across multiple sites: database queries, sorting, naming, optimizing, structuring, moving, and ingesting data to fulfill conventional and unconventional requests from Service and R&D teams. Ensure data flow for capture and processing pipeline, maintaining an overview of storage capacity on multiple sites in parallel. Establish data deletion policies and execute data deletions in close collaboration with the MH team. Manage archive, including data restoration. Support metadata tagging process. What we're looking forExperience in handling big data projects and processing large amounts of data with accurate indexing and storage. Strong understanding of storage protocols (NFS, SMB, S3) and storage concepts. Proficient knowledge of Python, Bash shell scripting, command-line tools (e.g., find, du, rsync, robocopy, rclone), SQL or data query tools. Proficiency in Windows, Linux, and macOS environments. Strong organizational skills, flexibility, and curiosity. Excellent communication skills and the ability to respectfully interact with co-workers at all levels in a professional environment. Problem-solving skills and the ability to show initiative and proactively engage in implementing solutions when appropriate. Ability to work independently or as part of a team and without direct supervision. A methodically consistent approach to repetitive tasks; values accuracy and acute attention to detail. Bachelor's degree or relevant industry experience. EPIC JOB + EPIC BENEFITS = EPIC LIFEWe pay 100% for benefits for both employees (EEs) and dependents (deps). Our current benefits package includes coverage for private medical insurance (inc. dental/vision), supplemental life, supplemental accident, and disability. We also offer a robust mental well-being program through Modern Health, which provides free therapy and coaching for employees & dependents. BEING A PART OF 3LATERAL TEAMOur mission is to evolve through exploring abstract landscapes of art and science, exciting new technologies and, most importantly, through nurturing continuous multi-disciplinary communication and company values among our team members. Our talented and devoted individuals are all gathered around the same vision of creating and constantly improving technology that allows creation of high-fidelity replicas of human appearance and motion with special focus on real time and usable across all digital mediums. In order to ensure a supportive and collaborative environment we: Enable professional long-term career development through continuous education and specialization. Work with exciting new technologies and ambitious, industry changing, projects. Attendance at the leading seminars and conferences from the industry. Sustain personal goals through family-oriented work regulations. Empower autonomy of thinking and acting. Pleasant working atmosphere in our cozy offices with friendly and well-minded individuals. Work from home model during pandemic. We are looking for new team members who can inspire us and are willing to give us a chance to inspire them, contribute to their ideas, skills and knowledge. With joint forces with our mother company Epic Games we are continually developing the state of the art in Unreal Engine as a leading team for creation of next generation virtual humans and creatures. Note to Recruitment Agencies:Epic does not accept any unsolicited resumes or approaches from any unauthorized third party (including recruitment or placement agencies) (i.e., a third party with whom we do not have a negotiated and validly executed agreement). We will not pay any fees to any unauthorized third party. Further details on these matters can be foundhere .#J-18808-Ljbffr