Broadcast Systems Engineer, Prime Video Live Sports

Prime Video is seeking an experienced Broadcast Systems Engineer for our Live Sports Production Technical Operations team. This role spans the design integration and day-to-day operation of broadcast production systems and the underlying compute and virtualization infrastructure that powers them. You will support infrastructure powering live events across our expanding sports portfolio including NFL NBA WNBA NHL NWSL and NASCAR as well as the build-out of new broadcast facilities on our Culver City campus.

You will be part of the core engineering team responsible for designing building and maintaining a state-of-the-art broadcast campus working alongside network engineers broadcast technicians and architects to deploy and operate the compute and virtualization infrastructure that powers live sports at scale.

As part of the Prime Video team you will work on projects that are fast-paced technically varied and high-impact with room to experiment with new technology take creative risks and collaborate with exceptional people.

Key job responsibilities
- Work as part of a core engineering team responsible for deploying and integrating production systems collaborating closely with network and broadcast engineers vendors and production staff to bring new infrastructure and systems online.
- Manage the full lifecycle of server infrastructure: procurement support automated provisioning configuration management patching and decommissioning physical installation and rack/cabling work as needed.
- Administer Linux Windows and macOS systems at scale across production engineering and post-production environments.
- Maintain a systematic patching program across the full fleet: OS updates firmware BIOS IPMI application software and hypervisor components including patch cadences testing pipelines and rollback procedures that account for a live production environment.
- Approach every repeatable task as an automation opportunity building scripts pipelines and tooling that eliminate manual work reduce human error and scale operations as our fleet grows.
- Manage and maintain Proxmox VE hypervisor clusters; deploy configure and lifecycle-manage remote machines supporting broadcast applications media services backend services control systems and engineering tools.
- Maintain and continuously improve a monitoring and alerting platform covering all infrastructure layers compute virtualization storage network and broadcast systems integrating telemetry via APIs Syslog SNMP with dashboards threshold alerting anomaly detection and on-call escalation paths.
- Manage and maintain records for all infrastructure assets including physical servers network hardware remote machines and associated IP address space.
- Provide on-call technical support during live broadcast events; rapidly triage and resolve on-air incidents across the full infrastructure stack.
- Create and maintain comprehensive documentation including as-built drawings system designs VM inventories provisioning runbooks and change records.
- Approach all system design and implementation with a security-first mindset collaborating with Amazon Security on architecture reviews patching compliance and vulnerability remediation.


- Bachelors degree in Information Technology Broadcast Engineering Computer Science a related field or equivalent professional experience
- 6 years of hands-on experience in broadcast systems engineering within live production or media infrastructure environments
- Linux Windows and macOS system administration experience at scale
- Hands-on experience administering enterprise hypervisor platforms - Proxmox VE VMware vSphere or equivalent - including VM and container lifecycle storage configuration and HA management
- Experience provisioning and maintaining bare metal servers: IPMI/iDRAC/iLO BIOS management RAID configuration and hardware troubleshooting
- Practical scripting and automation experience (Bash Python or equivalent) applied to infrastructure tasks
- Solid broadcast networking fundamentals: IP addressing VLANs network segmentation multicast basic L3 routing
- Experience configuring and maintaining infrastructure monitoring and alerting platforms (i.e. Grafana Prometheus Zabbix Nagios or equivalent)
- Working knowledge of broadcast signal formats and transport methods such as SDI (HD/3G/12G) IP media transport (ST 2110 SRT JPEG-XS) or AoIP/embedded audio (AES67 Dante embedded/analog audio timecode and ancillary data)

- Hands-on experience supporting ST 2110 and NMOS-based IP production environments.
- Experience with configuration management and infrastructure-as-code tools such as Ansible Terraform or equivalent.
- Experience administering Active Directory: user and group management Group Policy DNS/DHCP integration and OU structure for production environments.
- Experience supporting or working in live broadcast control room environments with systems such as production switchers routing systems multiviewers replay graphics and playout.
- AWS administration experience: EC2 IAM VPC S3 and Systems Manager for managing cloud-hosted infrastructure alongside on-premises environments.
- Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker Kubernetes) in a media or production environment.

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability or other legally protected status.

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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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience qualifications and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical dental vision prescription Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans EAP Mental Health Support Medical Advice Line Flexible Spending Accounts Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage) 401(k) matching paid time off and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at CA Culver City - 127300.00 - 222700.00 USD annually