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The National Football League is looking for a Digital Video Operations Engineer to participate in operating, managing and maintaining the NFL's video streaming infrastructure and related technologies. You will be a team player, having a solid foundation in encoding and video compression techniques in live and on-demand video streaming environments.
You will be responsible for day-to-day operations, support, maintenance and successful delivery of all live events. The ideal candidate can think outside the box and demonstrate enthusiasm exploring and researching bleeding edge technologies.
Responsibilities:
• Configure, develop, test and implement appropriate codec settings for live video and on demand streaming
• Perform analysis, diagnosis and resolution of complex video streaming hardware problems and implement corrective solutions
• Conduct daily inspections of video streaming infrastructure
• Maintain documentation of hardware maintenance, configuration, failures, removal, and installation
• Maintenance and management of all streaming video and audio, including compression, bit-rate management, encoding and decoding
• Optimizing video capture for video storage, access, and streaming
• Maintain and launch new encoding parameters to be adopted by club and league partners
Requirements:
• BS degree and/or equivalent experience
• At least 3-5 years experience in configuring, support, and troubleshooting technology surrounding video streaming (live/on demand)
• Experience with troubleshooting various operating systems (Linux/Mac/Windows)
• Experience working with server software (Apache, Kulabyte, Flash Media Server, etc).
• Experience with scripting languages; perl, bash etc.
• Knowledge of television/video production environment (broadcast standards, content creation)
• Working knowledge of encoding standards
• Familiar with a broad range of systems components and basic networking and have a general knowledge of video infrastructure signal flow
• Experience with digital video and audio editing software a plus
• Solid troubleshooting experience is a MUST
• Deliver and maintain technical support at the highest level of quality and professionalism
• Setting up and breaking down of equipment
• Ability to lift up to 50lbs on a regular basis
• Familiar with streaming technologies
• The successful candidate will be detail-oriented, well organized, and have the ability to work in our fast paced environment
• Flexible schedule a must – night and weekend work is required
• A strategic thinker who can effectively make the case for taking calculated risks
• Deep understanding of and experience in consumer-facing digital content space
• A sports fan in general, and more specifically an NFL fan
• Data-driven individual who makes decisions based on empirical evidence and can persuade others to do the same
