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Genuent is hiring a Media Engineer - Long Term Project - Remote (Must be based in New York, NY, San Francisco, CA, or Seattle WA). JOB DESCRIPTION:As a Media Streaming Engineer, you will be responsible for maintaining, supporting and monitoring live streaming workflows for the companies video encoding and segmenting products.When issues arise, you will be one of the first people troubleshooting and providing solutions that ensures minimal impact to our customer's video experience. You will also assist in the deployment and maintenance of our live encoders. The ideal candidate would have some background in IT system administration and major background in audio/video production technologies and/or media streaming knowledge. The ideal candidate must have strong troubleshooting skills, with an ability to capture and analyze issues as they occur.BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:Monitoring of live event workflowsTroubleshooting encoding and segmentation issuesEngineering ProjectsMaintenance and support of live encoders and packagersDocumentation of workflows and standard operation proceduresProvide guidance and training to other operational staffPREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:Strong multi-tasking abilitiesAbility to work independently to solve problems in both the video and IT domainsAbility to quickly identify and resolve issues in a time sensitive and dynamic production environmentComfortable acting as a technical resource to other departments to address and resolve technical issues.Comfortable working with DSS staff around the in the United States (Eastern and Pacific Time Zones)Strong communication skills.Experience working in a video OTT/broadcast environment.Basic understanding of DAI workflows in a broadcast and OTT environment.Basic understanding of video fundamentalsIntermediate knowledge of live video transmission acquisition and/or OTT encoding distribution workflows.Knowledge of IP video delivery protocols (HLS, MPEG-TS, DASH)Knowledge of video codecs and compression (H.264/AVC, H.265/HEVC)Knowledge of audio codecs and containers (AAC, PCM, AC-3, EAC-3, MPEG-1 Layer-II)Knowledge of video delivery over content distribution networksExperience working with encoding platformsExperience working with an enterprise, or workstation, encoding solution such as AWS Elemental, Ateme Titan, or Wowza Cloud.Basic understanding of IP networksBasic network transport understanding (Multicast, TCP/UDP connections)Comfortable troubleshooting with Transport Stream and Elementary Stream analyzersComfortable with Mac, Linux, and Windows environments, specifically on the command line.Linux systems administration experience strongly preferred.CentOS experience.Knowledge of at least one programming/scripting languageBasic scripting experience (BASH, Python, Ruby)Some experience with open-source encoding software such as FFMPEG or GStreamerComfortable reading xml/jsonExperience with REST API communication, either manually (cURL/Postman), or programmatically (through a scripting language library)Basic experience with command-line video tools like FFMPEG, MP4Box, and TSDuckBasic experience with automation suites (AWX/Ansible, Puppet)Experience writing technical documentation for consumption by both technical and non-technical people.Experience working with technology in mid-size to large data centersEDUCATION:Bachelors or equivalent
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