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Job Summary:
Mars is a leading company focused on building a better tomorrow. They are seeking an IT Infrastructure & Broadcast Operations Technical Lead to implement and maintain the technology backbone for executive broadcasts and high-profile events, ensuring resilient and secure infrastructure across global locations.
Responsibilities:
• Manage and execute the design, deployment, proactive maintenance, and lifecycle management of on-premise and cloud-based broadcast AV/IT infrastructure, including firmware/OS patching, application updates, configuration management, redundancy, high availability strategies, facility cabling, and equipment refresh cycles.
• Configure, monitor, and support hybrid enterprise broadcast AV networks across multiple global locations and cloud environments.
• Align infrastructure roadmap across on-premise sites and cloud with a focus on remote production workflows ensuring reliability, scalability, and security.
• Implement automation and infrastructure/configuration-as-code practices for repeatable deployments, configuration baselining, version control, and change governance.
• Partner with Information Security to ensure technical solutions comply with policy and governance requirements, including security monitoring/detection, network segmentation, credential governance, access controls, patch/vulnerability management, and secure network connectivity.
• Manage OPEX/CAPEX planning and budget execution for broadcast and IT operations; develop business cases for resilience, modernization, and automation initiatives.
• Track utilization and optimize spend across cloud resources, licensing, support agreements, and hardware lifecycles.
• Develop and maintain IT Service Management (ITSM)-aligned practices tailored to real-time broadcast and special event operations; collaborate with internal and external IT support teams to enable operational success.
• Embed continuous improvement loops focusing on root cause eradication, automation efficiencies, and technical debt reduction.
• Provide strong networking expertise including multicast, QoS, VLAN design and segmentation, routing, firewall policies, fiber optics, WAN (bonded links/cellular), and SD-WAN technologies.
• Oversee media transport and streaming protocols such as SRT, Zixi, HLS, DASH, RTMP, and WebRTC.
• Manage cloud and virtualization platforms including Azure services, infrastructure hosting, containerization, and hybrid cloud to on-premise integration.
• Administer systems fundamentals including Windows, Mac, and Linux environments, identity integration (Active Directory/SSO), and foundational database management.
• Operationalize technical solutions for live corporate broadcasts and special production events (on-site, remote, hybrid), including live monitoring, audio/video backhaul, routing, switching, presenter contribution, recording, streaming, and redundancy/failover components.
• Act as lead technical authority during broadcasts and events to proactively monitor end-to-end signal flow; execute failover options as necessary. Provide clear situational communication during live incidents, tailoring technical translation for executive and non-technical stakeholders.
• Define and execute technical readiness standards, checklists, and failover procedures for all live productions to ensure technical resiliency. Maintain, test, and continuously refine disaster recovery and business continuity strategies.
• Support equipment installation and maintenance tasks such as rack equipment installation/removal and cabling as needed.
• Demonstrate high judgment under pressure with calm decision-making in live broadcast or major incident scenarios.
Qualifications:
Required:
• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Broadcast Technology, or equivalent industry experience.
• Relevant technical certifications such as AWS/Azure, ITIL, Dante, SMPTE, NDI, CTS, Security+/CISSP, Network+, or similar.
• Demonstrated hands-on experience with IT server management, cloud computing, and advanced networking principles.
• Proven ability to lead technical projects while also actively participating in the hands-on technical work.
• Experience in independently managing and executing IT-related tasks without reliance on other team members or vendors.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in broadcast engineering, media technology, or large-scale live event technical operations.
• Progressive responsibility spanning broadcast technologies, cloud integration, and live event escalation support, including signal chain engineering for baseband and IP audio/video workflows.
• Direct involvement in designing, commissioning, and scaling broadcast infrastructure including facility builds, control room and studio design, cloud and remote production enablement.
• Experience with remote/REMI production architectures, virtual production, and cloud-based switching environments.
• Strong proficiency in audio-visual technologies used in corporate meeting spaces, including hybrid meeting scenarios and ad hoc event-based deployments.
• Advanced proficiency with Microsoft 365 productivity platform (Teams, OneDrive, SharePoint, Outlook, PowerPoint, Word, Excel, CoPilot).
• Experience managing IT Security in mixed media/AV IT environments.
• Knowledge and experience in IT Service Management methodologies (e.g., ITIL), including incident lifecycle management (detection, triage, impact assessment, communication, root cause eradication).
• Organizationally savvy with the ability to leverage global networks to mobilize resources and deliver complex initiatives.
Company:
Mars manufactures confectionery and food products and provides pet nutrition, pet food, and animal care services. Founded in 1911, the company is headquartered in McLean, Virginia, US, , with a team of 10001+ employees. The company is currently Late Stage.