The Walt Disney Company · 15 hours ago
Dir Media Systems Engineering
Charlotte, NC, USA
Full-time
Hybrid
Director/Executive
12+ years expThe Walt Disney Company is a global leader in media and entertainment, and they are seeking a Director of Media Systems Engineering to transform how Disney acquires, produces, and distributes content worldwide. This role involves leading a team to develop innovative technical solutions, overseeing infrastructure projects, and collaborating with various stakeholders to enhance Disney's technological capabilities.
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Responsibilities
Lead the development of or develops innovating broad-scale technical solutions that have a significant impact on future technological practices and standards of the organization
Direct, oversee resolution of broader scope issues that affect content acquisition, production, encoding, decoding, and content distribution across multiple DE&E Technology networks (linear, digital, and streaming platforms) including multi-resolution support across broadcast facilities (720p/1080/4K/UHD/HDR), metadata conversion, audio mapping, system outages, microservices architecture, and related technical problems
Oversee a team of engineers to implement and execute on-prem and cloud-based infrastructure projects that support broadcast production for distribution, conditioning, monitoring, and routing infrastructure, between and throughout all facilities for content ingest and network distribution
Direct, architect, design, and implement media technology environments 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
Drive infrastructure re-engineering and integration efforts inclusive of documenting and analyzing complex business workflows, requirement gathering from stakeholders, defining areas of innovation opportunity, and overseeing the design of future state processes
Accountable for the modernization of 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, and more)
Collaborate closely with Production and Content operations teams to gather requirements and develop solutions based on broadcast facility’s needs, vet broadcast systems workflows, implement new cutting-edge technologies, and steer television standards organizations
Drive the overall investigative strategy of our organization 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
Qualification
Required
12+ years of demonstrated and relevant experience in leading others, 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
Proficient with software development, scripting, and integration with 3rd party services via api. Java/Python/Typescript preferred
Proficient in cloud orchestration (ie CloudFormation, terraform) and CI/CD
Working knowledge of IP based routing, DNS, DHCP, TCP/IP, HTTP, UDP, SSL, and SNMP
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
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
Expert level knowledge and experience with compression techniques such as MPEG2/4, HEVC, JPEG 2000, and JPEG XS
Master Expert level knowledge and experience with major media systems and the vendors that supply them in areas such as asset management systems, file-based workflows, media acquisition, transcoding/encoding, graphics, and NAS/SAN technologies
Bachelor's Degree in electrical engineering, computer science, and/or equivalent 10+ years of work experience
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
Jamie Power
SVP, Addressable Sales
Karen Van Kirk
Sr. Vice President, Viewer Experience, Direct-to-Consumer
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