Engineer, Entertainment Systems
New York, NY

Job Description

Responsibilities

NBCUniversal has an exciting opportunity for a talented individual with a diverse skillset to become an Engineer in the Operations and Technical Services department. The Entertainment Systems group oversees a complex technical environment that encompasses ingest, edit, transcode and delivery pipelines for multiple production groups at 30 Rock. The Engineer will interface with a broad range of NBCU personnel from end-users and production staff to various engineering groups and management.

Qualifications/Requirements

Basic Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in a technology or engineering discipline preferred

3+ years of recent experience in a broadcast/production environment, or an equivalent combination of education and experience

Proficiency in OSX, RHEL/CentOS, Windows

Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Additional Job Requirements

Interested candidate must submit a resume/CV through www.nbcunicareers.com to be considered (note job #:49942BR)

Must be willing to work in New York, NY

Must have flexibility with regard to work schedule (occasional night/weekend shifts and on-call rotation may be required)

Desired Characteristics

Skilled at the troubleshooting of media production applications and related hardware/utilities (Adobe CC Suite, Final Cut Pro, Pro Tools, AJA and Blackmagic video I/O devices)

Experience in a broadcast or post-production facility, exposure to media ingest/playout/transcode systems and media delivery workflows (DVS Venice, Telestream Vantage)

High level understanding of broadcast technical standards and fundamentals, SDI and MADI audio/video signals & plant routing, various media codecs (ProRes, H.264)

Experience with enterprise user administration and identification/permissions management in a shared-storage environment (Active Directory, Open Directory, POSIX/ACL-based permissions)

Knowledge of disk or LTO-based backup/archive/DR strategies and related hardware/software (Archiware P5, Quantum and SpectraLogic libraries)

Familiarity with standard network technologies, particularly those that relate to storage and file-sharing (VLAN's/subnets, SMB/AFP, out-of-band metadata networks, load-balancing, firewalls, DNS, UDP transfer e.g. Aspera/Signiant)

Exposure to SAN/NAS infrastructure/protocols, block/file storage fundamentals and best practices, specifically fibre channel fabrics and zoning (Brocade, StorNext/XSan or similar, various network filers, RAID configurations, host adapters)

Basic understanding of configuration management utilities (JAMF, Puppet) and site monitoring tools (Nagios)

Customer driven

Self Starter who is able to meet tight deadlines

Ability to stay focused and productive in a fast-paced environment with constantly shifting priorities

Strong hands-on problem-solving skills with broadcast-related equipment and critical server systems