Y4 Media Engineer

Job Description

The Walt Disney Company is a world-class entertainment and technology leader. Walt's passion was to continuously envision new ways to move audiences around the world-a passion that remains our touchstone in an enterprise that stretches from: animation, theme parks, resorts, and a cruise line to sports, news, movies, and a variety of other businesses. Uniting each endeavor is a commitment to creating and delivering unforgettable experiences - and we're constantly looking for new ways to enhance these exciting experiences. Part of the Walt Disney Television Group, Disney Television Animation (DTVA) is a high-volume digital animation production studio. DTVA's strong use of commercial and custom software technologies to create its animation products makes its use of technology, engineering, development techniques, and software critical to its production operations and workflows. Disney Television Animation Technology (DTVAT) innovates and delivers solutions supporting our animation studio, whose legendary content transcends generations. As part of the Technology team, you'll be joining a group of passionate, dedicated technologists solving a range of exciting problems in innovative ways in an exciting and dynamic industry. We are looking for high-performing, motivated individuals who are generalists and proficient in many technologies and languages. Our team embraces disruptive thinkers who can drive innovation.

Responsibilities:

The Local 700 Y4 Engineer:
• Serves as the principal technical liaison and service delivery resource for all Audio and Video editors and playback operators, editorial, design, and mix users.
• Participates in the: research, design, documenting, testing, deployment, and support of all editorial and sound editing and mix systems, their peripherals, and the physical configuration of our editorial suites.
• Participates in inventory management programs.
• Monitors and handles support requests, assuring all requests get resolved per Service Level Agreements.
• Collaborates daily with:
• Userbase and executive stakeholder.
• Editorial users and Technology and Engineering partners.
• 3rd party vendors.
• Collaborates with technical project management efforts.
• Partners closely with Technology and Engineering partners across the DTVAT team.
• Ability to physically lift 40lbs

Preferred Qualifications:

Knowledge, experience and expertise with:
• Avid Media Composer
• Avid Pro Tools
• Networked attached and local data storage systems:
• Avid Nexis file systems
• Other file systems
• Interconnected clients over variety of protocols: NFS, SMB, DFS, NTFS.
• Experience working with hosted file systems and permission structures
• Avid ACSR Certification or equivalent experience for Media Composer & Nexis Elite, Pro Tools is a plus
• Editorial, Digital Distribution workflows.
• Casting, Music, Editorial and Post-production engineering & front-end operators.
• Audio / Video file codecs.
• Audio & Video routing systems.
• Audio / Video engineering & signal flow troubleshooting (HDMI, HD/SDI, AES, analog audio & video) both direct connect and over Fiber Optics – with and without TCP/IP transport.
• Waveform monitors, scopes, and video/audio signal analyzers & generators as well as sync measurement devices.
• Monitor and Display technologies: Color calibration and color science.
• IP based interconnected equipment.
• Experience working in animation post production setting preferably in a studio or post production facility.
• Script-based tools understanding (at an authoring level) a plus:
• bash, Perl, Python, etc.
• Interplay/ Media Central & Cloud UX a plus.
• Ability to create and maintain:
• Project Planning inclusive of subtasks, bill-of-materials, time/labor components, etc.
• Diagramming and Documentation of procedures, processes and systems inclusive of written processes (orders of execution), technical line drawings and logic charts.
• Excellent customer-service orientation & client rapport with a full understanding of the nuances of supporting a fast-paced post-production environment.
• Excellent time management skills:
• Ability to multitask in a complex, diverse production environment.
• Ability to quickly prioritize execution of tasks based on decisions given.
• Motivated and self-directed.
• Excellent organization, logical / analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Additional Information:
• ​​​​​This position is covered under a collective bargaining agreement- IATSE Local 700
• Equal Opportunity Employer -- Female/Minority/Veteran/Disability/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-g636yj-18-117-182-179-42 in your application.