Technical Engineer Media Production

Job Description

Overview & Responsibilities

The News Production Support Services team is part of the Technology team responsible for supporting CBS News' worldwide news organization, providing the CBS Television Network with regularly scheduled news and public affairs broadcasts, including 60 Minutes, 48 Hours, CBS Evening News, CBS This Morning, CBS Sunday Morning and Face the Nation as well as special reports. CBS News also provides CBS Newspath®, a television news syndication service that offers daily news coverage, sports highlights and news features to the CBS Television Network affiliates and other subscribers worldwide.

The Post-Production Specialist, News, provides hardware and software support for mission critical computer and technical systems required for external television news broadcasts. This position is a key technology role for supporting News television programs.

Provide post-production support across the television news programs

Ensure the broadcast television news infrastructure is always in good order through proactive hardware and software maintenance, licensing, equipment upgrades and installations, system administration, and OS image creation and network deployments

Manage numerous non-linear edit (NLE) clients, ingest, capture, storage, and transcode servers

Independently troubleshoot and resolve anomalies in fast paced environment and execute best solutions to limit production downtime

Recommend and execute technical workflow improvements

Basic Qualifications

Bachelor's degree

1 - 3 years in a live broadcast television news environment managing numerous non-linear edit systems (NLE) in non-fiction, network or high-volume production company

Additional Qualifications

Working knowledge of Cisco switches, virtual machines, Microsoft image deployments using SCCM/MDT, Red Hat Linux, and file transport and automation systems (Aspera/Signiant)

Working knowledge of Final Cut Pro, Adobe CC, Davinci Resolve, and Nucoda

Knowledge of UHD/4K cameras, workflows, and trends

Practical experience in post-production environments using video CODECs and complex file-based workflows using on-premises transcoding systems such as Telestream Vantage, Adobe Media Encoder, or cloud-centric video encode solutions

System administration experience (Windows Server, Active Directory, and DNS)

Working knowledge of IP networks, protocols, and hardware

Strong interpersonal skills with an ability to effectively guide, support, and escalate anomalies for all end-users in a live 24/7 broadcast facility

Avid Certified Support Representative Certification is desirable

Experience in a fast-paced environment juggling multiple priorities

Commitment to work flexible hours, early mornings, late nights, weekends and holidays.

Candidates who have worked as, Post-Production Managers, Post-Production Supervisors, Ingest Operators, Media Managers, or Broadcast Engineers are encouraged to apply.

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ViacomCBS is an equal opportunity employer (EOE) including disability/vet.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-re8238-216-73-216-238-42 in your application.