Advanced Video Engineer III
Greenwood Village, CO

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The Advanced Video Engineer - VOD is responsible for engineering activities that maintain and enhance the company's advanced video and signal processing hardware, software and electrical systems.

Duties & Responsibilities:

* Designs, implements, monitors, enhances and troubleshoots systems in assigned areas.
* Works closely with Headend operations staff on system design and configuration.
* Performs configuration and support of advanced video equipment (e.g. VOD, controllers, multiplexing, digital transport, edge QAM)
* Provide Systems Administration & Troubleshooting of Unix and Linux operating systems.
* Partner closely with 3rd Shift implementation team
* Works with Engineering to design, develop, build, test, and deploy electronic systems including audio, video, and other multimedia solutions
* Analyze and evaluate new or improved technical solutions (HW/SW)
* Identify, resolve, and escalate operational and design issues as required
* Perform detailed data analysis and recommend solutions to drive system efficiencies
* Perform detailed problem diagnosis, track, and update problems within trouble ticketing system
* Develop methods of procedures, processes, and plans required to meet operational metrics

Basic / Minimum Qualifications:

* Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field, and/or equivalent work experience
* Minimum three (3) years of Systems Administration experience.
* Minimum three (3) years of experience working with advanced video technologies
* At least three (3) years of experience providing video operations support and provisioning

Additional Job Qualifications:

* Experience writing technical documents to support design & deployments, ie. MOP, Wire plans, etc….
* Hands on experience managing deployment life cycle
* Solid experience working with Unix and Linux operating systems.
* Advanced Knowledge of Motorola (DAC) and/or CISCO (DNCS) video delivery systems
* Experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS) or other cloud hosting providers such as OpenStack
* Advanced knowledge of VOD content management solutions / VOD back office solutions / CDN solutions / QAM solutions (MediaKind / Concurrent / Commscope / Synamedia / Other)
* Hand-on experience installing, configuring and monitoring relational databases (MySQL, MongoDB, Cassandra)
* Knowledge and experience with scripting; Shell, PERL, etc.
* Working experience providing 'on call' support on a rotating basis to resolve system/application issues after normal business hours

Preferred Skills & Qualifications:

* Cable / Telecommunication industry experience
* Industry and vendor specific certifications and training (SCTE DVEP, IPEP, Cisco CCENT)