Job Description
Job Description
NBC Sports Philadelphia’s Technology & Operations department provides Technical Support, Engineering, Media Operations, Production, Studios and Facilities at the Philadelphia Regional Sports Network located in the Wells Fargo Center, in Philadelphia, PA.
As part of the NBCU Philadelphia triopoly of networks, consisting of NBC Sports Philadelphia, WCAU and WWSI, the Technology team has responsibility for partnering with our local & division teams to build, deploy and support the technical systems in the respective facilities.
Reporting to the Assistant Director of Technology, the Engineer role is a full-time position within the Technology & Operations Department that will be primarily responsible for helping gather requirements, planning, designing, and implementing systems within our mission critical, multi-client broadcast and enterprise IT environment. The role requires that you possess the necessary self-discipline to take ownership and responsibility for delivering technical solutions considering both business and technical needs of all customers with the goal of providing a quality product that meets the user needs. You will be part of a talented team of engineers that demonstrate superb technical competency, delivering internal customer-oriented solutions, mission critical infrastructure, and ensuring the highest levels of availability and performance. The role will suit individuals who are excited by the opportunity to work with leading edge technologies in the design, implementation of IP based, highly virtualized, broadcast environments.
Job Responsibilities:
“A Hands on” accomplished engineer dedicated to help our business win by supporting mission critical broadcast and IT systems, projects, and new initiatives.
Develop strong working relationships with department leaders and their teams including Production Operations, Engineering, IT, Creative Services, Sales, Traffic, Content & Live Event Operations groups to manage systems, documentation, follow best practices, implement new technologies & deliver projects on time & within budget.
Work with internal / external Technical Support teams to ensure timely resolution of customer requests and issues.
Provide troubleshooting & support for systems, infrastructure, and applications, including root cause analysis.
Evaluate and optimize workflows related to all broadcast systems including linear and IP fabric for video infrastructures, virtualized Windows & Linux environments, encode / decode platforms, newsgathering tools, NLE, Media Asset Management systems, distribution / transmission systems and other workflow tools.
Evaluate, test and install upgrades to all platform operating systems, applications, and hardware
Risk Management: Assess all issues, adds, changes to mitigate potential system impact.
Ongoing assessment of workflows, identifying manual processes that can be streamlined or improved upon with new hardware, software or automation
Participate in the testing of new technology.
Install, commission and configure new technology
Develop and maintain system documentation for operational and troubleshooting purposes.
Work with operations teams to ensure SOP’s & documentation are written and up to date
Produce work that is consistently professional, reliable and detail oriented.
Other duties as deemed necessary
Job Tags
Full time, Local area,