[Hiring] Senior Manager, Media Systems Engineering @5014 Disney Streaming Technology LLC

Role Description

This role involves transforming the capability and flexibility of how Disney acquires, produces, and distributes content worldwide, ensuring the highest levels of quality, efficiency, and resiliency.

• Lead a team of engineers to modernize Disney legacy media production infrastructure systems.
• Identify new technological innovations and advancements within the industry (e.g., SMPTE ST 2110, 4K, UHD, HDR).
• Manage planning and execution of on-prem and cloud-based broadcast production and infrastructure projects.
• Direct a team of senior engineers to architect, design, document, and implement media technology environments.
• Gather requirements and develop broad-scale solutions based on broadcast facility needs and production workflows.
• Implement new cutting-edge technologies and define areas of innovation opportunity.
• Drive the overall investigative strategy to bring synergy and efficiency across Disney facilities.
• Partner with Portfolio and finance teams on project capital planning and forecasting.
• Develop project plans and schedules.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or comparable field of study.
• Minimum of 8 years of related work experience.
• Strong understanding of baseband/IP video, audio and digital compression, transport systems.

Requirements

• Minimum of 8 years of demonstrated and relevant experience in leading others and managing on-air broadcast facilities.
• Proficient with technologies like microservices, DevOps tools, design principles, practices, standards, and guidelines.
• Expert level knowledge and experience with on-prem and cloud-based storage and compute infrastructure platforms.
• Experience with file-based workflows like enterprise Media Asset Management systems.
• Proficient with software development, scripting, and integration with 3rd party services via API.
• Expert level knowledge and experience with compression techniques such as MPEG2/4, HEVC, JPEG 2000, and JPEG XS.
• Working knowledge of DNS, DHCP, TCP/IP, HTTP, UDP, SSL, and SNMP.
• Proficiency in AutoCAD.
• Expert knowledge in standards for broadcast television and video production/streaming environments.

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