Sports Broadcast Systems Engineer

Job Description

Responsibilities

This is an exciting opportunity to gain exposure into Sports Broadcasting, while being challenged in a dynamic environment.

The NBC Sports Bay Area station, produce and broadcast the games of the San Francisco Giants, Golden State Warriors, Oakland A's, San Jose Sharks, Sacramento Kings, and other major league sports on two 24/7 channels. This NBC Sports station produces over 600 live sporting events per year across multiple platforms.

The Systems Engineer will join a team of Engineers that support mission critical infrastructure to deliver our sports broadcast to viewers. At this station, you'll have the opportunity to work with leading edge production technologies that are constantly evolving. Day to day, the team will plan, design, integrate, and support systems and operations within the technical environment.

Job Responsibilities:
• ''A Hands on'' accomplished systems engineer dedicated to help our business win by supporting mission critical broadcast and IT systems, Live Events production, projects and new initiatives.
• Develop strong working relationships with department leaders and their teams including Production Operations, Engineering, IT, Creative Services, Sales, Traffic, and Digital Content groups to manage systems, documentation, follow best practices and implement new technologies & deliver projects on time & within budget.
• Work with equipment manufacturer technical support teams to ensure timely resolution issues related to production systems.
• Provide troubleshooting & support for systems, infrastructure and applications, including root cause analysis.
• Evaluate and optimize workflows related to all broadcast systems including linear and IP fabric for video infrastructures, virtualized Windows & Linux environments, encode / decode platforms, newsgathering tools, NLE, Media Asset Management systems, distribution / transmission systems and other workflow tools.
• Evaluate, test and install upgrades to all platform operating systems, applications, and hardware
• Risk Management: Assess all issues, adds, changes to mitigate potential system impact.
• Ongoing assessment of workflows, identifying manual processes that can be streamlined or improved upon with new hardware, software or automation
• Participate in the testing of new technology.
• Install, commission and configure new technology
• Develop and maintain system documentation for operational and troubleshooting purposes.
• Work with operations teams to ensure SOP's & documentation are written and up to date
• Produce work that is consistently professional, reliable and detail oriented.
• Other duties as deemed necessary

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Broadcast IT or Systems Engineering or similar with 5+ years' experience preferred. Equivalent experience considered.
• Experience in a similar role with an ISP, media company, systems integrator or other relevant industry.

Additional Job Requirements
• Must be willing to work in San Francisco, CA
• Must be willing to travel and work outside standard hours, evenings, and on weekends with short notice
• Must be willing to submit to a background investigation
• Must have unrestricted work authorization to work in the United States
• Must be 18 years or older
• Must have a valid driver's license
• Ability to lift and carry 40+ pounds of gear
• Must be covered by Solutions, NBCU's Alternative Dispute Resolution Program

Desired Qualifications
• Bilingual in Spanish is a plus
• Experience in supporting large scale systems to support business needs
• Experience supporting a major market or network News operation
• Knowledge of IT routers, switches, firewalls, and port management applications
• Proficient in A/V file transcoding, data archiving processes and video compression technologies & standards.
• Hands on experience with support of non-linear edit systems such as Premier, FCP, Edius, Avid and Adobe CC.
• Demonstrated knowledge of media over managed IP networks and protocols.
• Knowledge and experience with hardware virtualization
• Knowledge of media workflow tools and production systems such as Vantage, iNews, Sony HIVE/ELC or similar.
• Knowledge of distribution systems including RF, streaming and satellite.
• Knowledge of newsgathering and communications systems
• Strong ability to read and generate system documentation (Visio, ACAD).
• Positive work ethic, ability to work well in groups to execute projects on time and on budget while meeting customer expectations.
• Ability to communicate and interact effectively with diverse audiences across different departments, ranging from non-technical clients to technical professionals and operations staff.
• Must be able to process large amounts of information, analyze this information and make sound decisions, sometimes under intense deadline pressure.
• Knowledge of standard engineering processes such as change control and agile development concepts.
• Must be keen to learn and develop new skills, as the needs of the business unit change.
• Ability to work on own initiative
• Excellent organization, collaboration and communication skills.
• Knowledge and experience with setup, testing, and documentation of proof of concept systems
• Must possess strong multitasking skills and the ability to prioritize tasks

Additional Information

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