Digital Technician

Role: Digital Technician

Start: Immediate

Location: Central London

Daily rate: £195 to £240 depending on experience

Expected duration: 3 months (May extend)

Our client is a global video on demand streaming provider. They are looking for digital technician to support their photography crew/photographers with troubleshooting technical issues and conduct Quality Assurance checks on produces assets.

The ideal candidate will have experience with IT support, 2^nd or 3^rd line, and experience with retouching, editing, manipulating Raw images with photo editing software.

• This is not an IT support role, specifically. Though the candidate will often be the first point of contact for IT related issues, locally.
• The primary role as a Digitech is to provide technical support to multiple photographers and videographers during live shoots and QA for any produced assets, which includes; colour matching the images to physical products, ensuring all generated assets are correctly named, complete and delivered to the retouching team on a daily basis.
• Applicants with a background in IT should have proven and demonstrable experience working at 2nd line / 3rd line support level, with the ability to confidently and methodically work through complex issues in a bespoke technical environment (which often includes troubleshooting scripts), unaided.

Essential:

• Experience with retouching / editing / manipulating RAW images using industry standard photo editing software, such as CaptureOne, Adobe Suite etc, in either a professional or personal capacity.
• Ability to understand basic code and troubleshoot code / script related issues (mainly PowerShell, though experience with other languages is accepted).
• An organised and pro-active approach to technical maintenance and planning.
• A desire to learn / understand bespoke automation pipelines – A growth and ownership mindset.
• A keen eye for detail, approachable and communicative.

Preferred but not required:

• Experience writing or adapting automation using basic or advanced scripting. (PowerShell preferred, Python).
• Experience working with AWS cloud / tools.