Broadcast Engineer
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Job Description
NBCUniversal has an opening for a fulltime onsite Broadcast Engineer in the Operations and Technology group based out of our Dry Creek Operations Center located in Centennial Colorado. The Engineer will be part of a dedicated 24x7 team tasked with supporting and maintaining our Dry Creek Operations Center including immediately addressing onair and critical issues for the NBC Network NBC Skypath Telemundo Network NBC and Telemundo Local Hub and affiliate OTT delivery.
Responsibilities:
- Responding to outage calls from operations teams and leading initial response to any technical issue.
- Creating procedural documentation.
- Working with internal and external subject matter experts and vendors to resolve complex issues.
- Implementing OS security upgrades.
- Analyzing problems in software and hardwarebased systems.
- Performance analysis and general system health checks across various technologies.
- Performing periodic maintenance procedures and proactive preventive maintenance actions.
- Developing the skills to become a subject matter expert for a collection of technologies within and across facilities.
Qualifications :
Basic Requirements:
- BS in Engineering/Computer Science or equivalent professional experience
- 3 years of support in a live onair environment
- Customer focused forward thinking and a full understanding of the onair environment.
- Must be a selfstarter curious and have desire to be constantly learning.
- Ability to analyze and use logic to troubleshoot complex issues and systems.
- Ability to work independently and in a team setting.
- Ability to effectively manage change control procedures.
- Demonstrated ability to effectively apply SDI IP and TS test equipment and analysis tools.
- Demonstrated ability to document complex systems and processes including the development of maintenance and change procedures.
- Ability to communicate processes and requirements to peers and offsite resources including personnel at remote NBCUniversal sites stations and vendors.
- Effective interpersonal skills.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Knowledge in the following areas:
- Onair and/or NOC operating environments
- Imagine SNP Encoder/Decoders Appear X Platform Evertz Encoders/Decoders Evertz ITXE Evertz IPGs Miranda HCOs and XVPs RTS
- Video transmission and compression formats and systems including but not limited to SDI ASI MPEG2 MPEG4 SMPTE2110 SRT.
- Video stream meta data including but not limited to DTMF triggers timecode user bits SCTE35 and 104 triggers Closed Captioning Nielsen watermarking.
- Automation and control signaling protocols and systems including but not limited to serial GPIO VGPI SNMP
- Proprietary monitor and control systems preferably Evertz VistaLink Grass Valley iControl and Dataminer.
- Desktop server and VM technology
- Storage technology including SAN NAS RAID and Cloud
- Broadcast automation systems preferably Grass Valley Morpheus.
- SDI and IP video routing systems and their control preferably GV nVision series Evertz EQX EXE SDVN and Magnum
Desired Characteristics:
- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS Azure GCP)
- Broadcast automation experience (Snell GV Pebble)
- VMware VCA/VCP certification
- The ideal candidate would have experience with the following technologies:
- IP Networking/Multicasting
- Streaming Media Protocols (RTP RTSP UDP)
- Network and storage infrastructure (Switches Routers SANs DCM etc.)
- Virtualization technologies such as VMware ESXi
- Master Control Automation Systems such as Grass Valley Morpheus
- Uncompressed and compressed video formats (SDI SMPTE 2110 H.264 JPEG2000 JPEGXS)
- Video Server Systems (Grass Valley ICE DVS)
- Transmission Encoding/Decoding Systems (Synamedia Harmonic Evertz MediaKind Zixi)
- Management and Control Software (Vistalink iControl Convergent)
- IT Systems such as Servers Workstations Databases
- SDI Video Distribution (Routers Frame Syncs)
- Basic and advanced test equipment such as waveform monitors and transport stream analyzers
Additional Requirements:
- Required OnSite: This position is required to be performed fulltime from an NBCUniversaldesignated worksite.
This position is eligible for company sponsored benefits including medical dental and vision insurance 401(k) paid leave tuition reimbursement and a variety of other discounts and perks. Learn more about the benefits offered by NBCUniversal by visiting the Benefits page of the Careers website. Salary range: $70000 $95000
We are accepting applications for this position on an ongoing basis.
Additional Information :
As part of our selection process external candidates may be required to attend an inperson interview with an NBCUniversal employee at one of our locations prior to a hiring decision. NBCUniversals policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race color religion creed gender gender identity or expression age national origin or ancestry citizenship disability sexual orientation marital status pregnancy veteran status membership in the uniformed services genetic information or any other basis protected by applicable law.
If you are a qualified individual with a disability or a disabled veteran and require support throughout the application and/or recruitment process as a result of your disability you have the right to request a reasonable accommodation. You can submit your request to
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Fulltime
Employment Type
Full-time
