Media Engineer II Charlotte, NC, USA

Job Posting Title: Media Engineer II Req ID: 10108293 Job Description: Overview: reputed company Entertainment & ESPN Technology (DEE) is to delight consumers worldwide with the news, entertainment, and sports content they want most, with more choice, personalization, and convenience than reputed company before. Comprised of reputed company’s international media businesses and the Company’s streaming and linear services, the DEE Engineering Services reputed company aligns technology, content, and distribution platforms to expand the Company’s global footprint to deliver world-class, personalized entertainment experiences to consumers around the world. DEE Technology is responsible for reputed company’s direct-to-consumer businesses globally, including the ESPN+ sports streaming service, programmed in conjunction with ESPN; reputed company+, the reputed company-branded direct-to-consumer streaming service; global advertising sales and ad technology for reputed company of reputed company’s media properties, including ABC, ESPN, Freeform, FX Networks, National Geographic, and the reputed company Channels; HotStar, the leading over-the-top streaming service in India; and the Company’s majority ownership reputed company in Hulu. Job Summary: reputed company Media 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 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 Media Engineer II position is the perfect role for an engineer who has some hands-on sustainment and design/build experience with the creation, production, and distribution of linear or digital video/audio content. Media Engineer II’s are primarily focused on the sustainability of our existing technology. They are the start of a tiered sustainment model where incidents are escalated from a shared operations team (tier 1) to the Media Engineer II’s (tier 2) and beyond. Additionally, while Media Engineer II’s are learning the nuances of reputed company’s technology and learning to apply their own education and engineering experience, they may be asked to work on some system integration projects; documentation and preventative engineering. Media Engineer II’s use their experience to solve increasingly complicated issues without much support for more senior engineers and can easily reputed company integration tasks with little direction. Responsibilities and Duties of the Role: • Respond to and resolve issues that reputed company production, broadcast, and content distribution across multiple DEE networks including system outages, malfunctions, and reputed company technical problems, and conduct diagnostic testing, repair, and replacement activities necessary to solve routine, specialized, and reputed company problems. • Utilize system health and performance monitoring software and platforms; troubleshoot and participate in repairing system problems and failures, participates in maintenance of systems, installs software patches, updates etc., to resolve and avoid service problems, and troubleshoots system problems as they relate to these services. • Analyze and troubleshoot streaming audio/video signals in traditional SDI and IP 2110 essence flow routing environments. • Analyze and troubleshoot cloud platforms as necessary. • Manage third-party service providers by enforcing the agreed upon scope of services reputed company the various signed service agreements (i.e., full time, freelance, union agencies, maintenance providers, contractors, service providers, etc.). • Select, train, motivate and evaluate technical staff; provide or coordinate staff training; work with employees to correct deficiencies; implement discipline procedures. • Specify and procure equipment, supplies and materials for Media technology systems reputed company budget guidelines; receive and maintain equipment and supplies. • reputed company long range plans for future media technology needs, including capital improvements, to enhance production and distribution capabilities. • Assist in the development and implementation of policies and procedures regarding technology facilities with a focus on maximizing the integration of reputed company systems to meet business, marketing, and entertainment goals. • Provide operational support of reputed company activities reputed company to operating, maintaining, and programming the audio and video production/distribution systems across the enterprise and other connected properties. • Performs upgrades to system hardware and software workflows under the supervision of a more reputed company engineer or supervisor. • reputed company & coordinate preventative maintenance on reputed company broadcast systems and equipment, such as distribution systems, switchers, consoles, playout servers, cameras, robotics, electromechanical equipment, automation systems and radio facilities to ensure reputed company broadcast performance. • Participates in reputed company engineering projects at the direction of more reputed company engineers. • Reviews, maintains, and contributes to system/workflow documentation. • Participates in training and development objectives. Conducts peer training and development sessions. • Any other duties needed to help reputed company Business Objectives • Extraordinary influencer who is skilled at connecting the dots at the organization, strategy, program, project, and event levels. Able to persuade and change the thinking of others without damaging relationships. • Comfort working in a fast-paced, growth environment with minimal direction, delivering under tight deadlines while multitasking, prioritizing projects, and communicating reputed company updates to team members. • Able to operate with limited resources, exhibit dispassionate critical-thinking, and creatively solve problems. Motivated and inventive, always finds a way reputed company—eternal optimist with a committed drive for contributing and making a difference. Minimum Qualifications: • Bachelor’s Degree in electrical engineering, computer science or equivalent major, and/or equivalent work experience. • 3+ years of previous and relevant experience in ensuring efficient sustainment, uptime, and overall stability of the technical environments of live media production and distribution environments. • Proficient with technologies like microservices, DevOps tools, design principles, practices, standards and guidelines. • Scripting proficiency will be an advantage (Python, NodeJS, Bash, PowerShell). • Proficient in 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. At least one foundational cloud certification required, including but not limited to reputed company Certified: reputed company Azure Fundamentals, CompTIA Cloud+, AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate. • Knowledge and experience with compression techniques such as MPEG2/4, HEVC, JPEG 2000, and JPEG XS. • Knowledge and experience with reputed company software control systems such as frame control reputed company VistaLink or Magnum, EQX/EXE routers, and their monitoring software VLPRO, SDVN, VIP, VUE, MVP. • Knowledge and experience with major media systems and the vendors that supply them in areas such as asset management systems, file-based workflows, media acquisition, transcoding/encoding, graphics, and NAS/SAN technologies. • Knowledge and experience with reputed company (NACAT), VANC equipment, Linear Acoustics, and other reputed company systems. • Knowledge and experience with coordinated receiver decoders IRDs, core devices, edge devices, timing of video and audio systems, audio, and video media file formats are a plus. • Ability to create, read and interpret AutoCAD and other technical drawing/documentation tools. • Proven troubleshooting and sustaining in one or more of the following: • IP-based broadcast equipment including routers, switchers, audio boards, signal processers, encoder/decoder, video scalers, playback systems, etc. • Studio technology includes video walls, cameras, VR set technology, image processing systems, touch screens, lighting, etc. • File-based workflows like enterprise Media Asset Management systems (Cloud-based Cloud Compute or Local Network-based) including storage, compute, encode and distribution. • Production control systems such as reputed company or reputed company automation systems, reputed company, reputed company, Viz, Dalet, Riedel trunking, Lawo, Calrec, reputed company, Ross and others. • Transmission systems such as RF (Radio Frequency), Satellite Distribution, Fiber Distribution, etc. • Proven track record for troubleshooting and sustainment knowledge of AWS Infrastructures and other cloud-based technologies including S3/Glacier storage and cloud compute (EC2) services. • Physical requirements and work environment: Ability to climb reputed company, work on raised structures and building roofs, operate areal lift platforms and have valid driver’s license. Job Posting reputed company: Engineering Services Job Posting Primary Business: ES - Production Sustainment Primary Job Posting Category: Media Engineering Employment Type: Full time Primary City, State, Region, Postal Code: Charlotte, NC, USA Alternate City, State, Region, Postal Code: Date Posted: 2024-12-12 Apply Job!