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Senior Media Specialist Enterprise Account Engineers (M-EAE) work across all AWS Elemental media products services and CloudFront and apply their product and domain expertise to key customer projects during the specification development deployment and acceptance phases of projects to deploy enterprise video workflows. Along with a Media Specialist TAMs the M-EAE role assists in driving long-term success for key enterprise accounts. The M-EAE develops deep technical knowledge on the operational aspects of customer workflows providing proactive guidance on best practices to help these customers achieve operational reliability resiliency and scalability. Depending on customer needs they may work closely with Media Specialist Solutions Architecture or AWS Professional Services teams with the M-EAE focusing on operational success. The M-EAE becomes a primary technical resource for AWS Support during production operation of these media workflows. While a M-EAE is not expected to develop software a software development background is valuable in helping understand complex customer needs and drive software solutions. Most importantly M-EAEs recognize that long-term customer success depends on proactive domain-focused guidance to ensure customer workflows are deployed following best practices that are associated with on-going support and operations delivered throughout the lifespan of the customer.
Up to 10% travel required
Key job responsibilities
- Act as the primary technical point of contact representing the technical needs of high-value media workflow for key enterprise accounts
- Participate in the on-boarding and off-boarding requirements of assigned key customers
- Work across AWS Elemental products and with AWS Solutions Architects to define detailed customer project requirements and scope feature tickets
- Interface with customer project managers and technical owners to understand key technical and operations requirements
- Collaborate with Product Managers to define customer technical requirements helping to advocate for solutions that drive long-term operational success
- Work with Engineering managers to ensure delivery of product features to meet customer technical requirements
- Work closely with product and workflow testing teams at either AWS Elemental HQ or customer locations to verify technical integration of products into customer workflows
- Ability to effectively communicate with technical leads at internally and at key accounts across up and down both organizations
- Work with designated support engineers to raise the customer experience bar with 24x7 support this includes establishing and facilitating customer specific training to ensure the customer support experience is high across the team.
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- Bachelors Degree in Computer Science Math or related discipline required or equivalent work experience
- 3 years experience using the public cloud as a developer architect systems engineer or technical implementer
- 3 years experience in systems engineering or technical operations support with some customer-facing responsibilities
- 3 years experience (and demonstrated credibility) working in a technical role within a software engineering-focused business
- 3 years of experience in video compression packaging and delivery mechanisms such as HLS DASH CMAF RTMP UDP and file based workflows
- Experience in a 24x7 operational services or support environment
- Experience with Amazon Web Services
- Ability to understand and communicate business and technical needs
- Excellent communication skills including facilitation negotiation and conflict resolution
- Excellent hardware/software problem-solving skills and ability to navigate challenging situations in a professional manner with minimal guidance
- Ability to interact with and influence technical personnel at all levels
- Familiarity with one or more Linux-based scripting language (e.g. Python Bash JavaScript etc.) or object oriented programming languages (Java C C#)
- Experience with CentOS or RedHat Linux distributions
- Experience with Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) (e.g. AWS CloudFront Akamai EdgeCast Level 3 Limelight)
- Willingness to work closely with customers during live events including nights and weekends
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Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees supervisors and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees supervisors and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal state and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct adverse and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies exercise sound judgment effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism and safeguard business operations and the Companys reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
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