The Walt Disney Company · 13 hours ago
Senior Manager, Media Systems Engineering
Bristol, CT
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
8+ years expThe Walt Disney Company is a global organization focused on advancing the technological backbone for its media business. The Senior Manager, Media Systems Engineering will lead a team to modernize media production infrastructure, ensuring quality and efficiency while working with various stakeholders to architect solutions and drive innovation in media technology.
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Responsibilities
Responsible and lead a team of engineers to modernize Disney legacy media production infrastructure systems through the identification of new technological innovations and advancements within the industry. (i.e., SMPTE ST 2110, 4K, UHD, HDR, JPEG-XS, NDI, ProRes Raw, H.265, AV1, metadata conversion, audio mapping, system outages, microservices architecture tunning and related technical problems
Own, lead and manage the planning and executing of on-prem and cloud-based broadcast production and infrastructure projects that support, conditioning, monitoring, routing infrastructure and distribution between and throughout all facilities for content ingest and network distribution (linear, digital, and streaming platforms)
Direct, manage a team of senior engineers to architect, design, document and implement media technology environments and construction of facilities that are aligned with industry standards for innovation, which allow DE&E Technology the ability to acquire, produce, store, stream, and distribute our content across all infrastructure
Lead and work closely with engineering services and operations management and various internal teams to gather requirements and develop broad-scale solutions based on broadcast facility’s needs, 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 and our overall broadcast ecosystem
Partner with our Portfolio and finance teams on project capital planning and forecasting, estimations, dependencies, business value/justification, synergy. and prioritization of work. Develop project plans, schedules
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's of Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience
Minimum of 8 years of related work experience
Strong understanding of baseband/IP video, audio and digital compression, transport systems, audio/video encoding/transcoding techniques, transfer acceleration systems and formats
Preferred
Minimum of 8 years of demonstrated and relevant experience in leading others, managing on-air broadcast facilities, developing technical strategies ensuring efficient design/build, uptime, and overall stability of the technical environments of live media production and distribution
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 and current technological offerings. (Virtual machines, docker containers)
File-based workflows like enterprise Media Asset Management systems (Cloud-based Cloud Compute or Local Network-based) including storage, compute, encode and distribution
Proficient with software development, scripting, and integration with 3rd party services via api. Experience with Java, servlets, web applications, Oracle SQL Experience (PL/SQL), MySQL experience is preferred
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 with a current certification such as not limited to ST 292M, ST 424M, ST 2110, ST 2059, IEE1588, ST 2022-7, SCTE-104, NMOS IS-04, 05, etc
Company
The Walt Disney Company
The Walt Disney Company started as a cartoon studio and evolves into sports coverage and television shows.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$11BKey Investors
Citibank
2020-04-13Post Ipo Debt· $5B
2020-03-20Post Ipo Debt· $6B
1978-01-06IPO
Leadership Team
Christine M. McCarthy
Senior Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
Jamie Power
SVP, Addressable Sales
Recent News
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