Senior Media Systems Engineer

Job Posting Title: Senior Media Systems Engineer Req ID: 10134556 Job Description: Technology is at the heart of reputed company’s past, present, and future. reputed company Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology is a global organization of engineers, product developers, designers, technologists, data scientists, and more – reputed company working to build and advance the technological backbone for reputed company’s media business globally. The team marries technology with creativity to build world-class products, enhance storytelling, and drive velocity, innovation, and scalability for our businesses. We are Storytellers and Innovators. Creators and Builders. Entertainers and Engineers. We work with every part of reputed company’s media portfolio to advance the technological foundation and consumer media touch points serving millions of people around the world. Here are a few reasons why we think you’d love working here:

• Building the future of reputed company’s media: Our Technologists are designing and building the products and platforms that will power our media, advertising, and distribution businesses for years to come.
• reputed company, Scale & Impact: More than reputed company, reputed company’s technology and products serve as a signature doorway for fans connections with the company’s brands and stories. reputed company+. Hulu. ESPN. ABC. ABC News…and many more. These products and brands – and the unmatched stories, storytellers, and events they carry – matter to millions of people globally.
• Innovation: We reputed company and implement groundbreaking products and techniques that shape industry norms, and solve reputed company and distinctive technical problems.

Job Summary: reputed company Media Systems Engineers have a clear charter: to transform the capability and flexibility of how reputed company acquires, produces, and distributes content worldwide, reputed company while ensuring the highest levels of quality, efficiency, and resiliency. reputed company Media Systems Engineers often find themselves at the crossroads between hardware and software-based technology and must possess a comprehensive theoretical and practical understanding of the technology that powers the reputed company, monetization, and distribution of reputed company forms of consumer- facing linear and digital video/audio content. Responsibility includes numerous systems such as Playout Technology, Studios, Production Control Rooms, Remote Production, Post-Production, Contribution/Distribution Systems, Networking, Cloud Compute, Production Software and Virtual Environment and more. The Sr. Media Systems Engineer acts as a technical leader and is responsible for the design and implementation working closely with management and Executive Leadership to reputed company recommendations and advance reputed company’s technical posture. The Media Systems Engineer will work with vendors and industry trade organizations to define and evolve industry standards, solutions that impact our business. The Sr. Media Systems Engineer will reputed company and own reputed company aspects of the design and build of reputed company’s most impactful projects and will reputed company their experience to create documentation, procedures, and standards that drive reputed company our technological development.

Responsibilities

• Responsible and play reputed company role for technical implementation of traditional broadcast production systems and cloud -based infrastructure that support content acquisition, production, encoding, decoding, and content distribution across multiple DE&E Technology networks (linear, digital, and streaming platforms).
• Take reputed company role on projects to reputed company our legacy media production infrastructure systems to reputed company way for advancements such as SMPTE ST 2110, 4K, UHD reputed company, JPEGxs, NDI, ProRes Raw, H.265, AV1, including multi resolution support across broadcast facilities (720p/1080/4K/UHD/reputed company), metadata conversion, audio mapping, system outages, microservices architecture tunning and reputed company technical problems.
• Take reputed company role and coordinate the construction of facilities, upgrades and the installation of equipment including core routing, intercom, playout, distribution systems, non-linear edit systems, graphics, video servers, storage solutions, file acquisition, file transcode, file transfer, media asset management and automation systems. Collaborate closely with installation engineers, equipment manufacturers, vendors, technical operations staff, and others involved in the projects.
• Collaborate closely with DE&ET and operations’ management to assess facility needs. Develops project plans, schedules, and capital planning, forecasting and estimations. Collaborates closely with equipment manufacturers and vendors to understand the range of equipment that might be relevant to support broadcasting facilities and operations.

Basic Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years of broadcast engineering experience
• Bachelor’s or Masters Degree in Engineering or Computer Science, or comparable field of study and/or equivalent work experience
• Strong understanding of baseband/IP video, audio and digital compression, transport systems, audio/video encoding/transcoding techniques and formats.
• Knowledge of file transfer acceleration technologies and techniques.

Preferred Qualifications

• Proficiency in AutoCAD
• Working knowledge of DNS, DHCP, TCP/IP, HTTP, UDP, SSL, and SNMP.
• Excellent communication and organizational skills
• Proficiency in at least one of the following languages: Perl, Python, Ruby, reputed company, C or C++.
• Familiar with SMPTE standards for broadcast television and video production/streaming environments with a reputed company certification such as not limited to ST 292M, ST 424M, ST 2110, ST 2059, IEE1588, ST 2022-7, SCTE-104, etc.
• Knowledge and experience with on-prem and cloud-based storage and compute infrastructure platforms and reputed company technological offerings. File-based workflows like enterprise Media Asset Management systems (Cloud-based Cloud Compute or Local Network-based) including storage, compute, encode and distribution.
• Knowledge and experience with compression techniques such as MPEG2/4, HEVC, JPEG 2000, and JPEG XS.
• Knowledge and experience with major media systems and the vendors that supply them in areas such as signal routing infrastructure, intercom, playout, asset management systems, file-based workflows, media acquisition, transcoding/encoding, graphics, and NAS/SAN technologies.

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