Net Insight

Job Summary:
NEP Group, Inc. is a company focused on providing high-quality production services in the broadcast industry. The Broadcast Network Engineer will support the day-to-day productions, build and maintain infrastructure for streaming solutions, and ensure reliable delivery of live streams.
Responsibilities:
• This role will focus on the engineering, operations, deployment, troubleshooting, organization, and technical communication of all NEPSF infrastructure rollout.
• This position will deliver numerous high-profile milestones as required by the business under supervision and support including maintaining and managing infrastructure/services, rolling out new encode solutions, delivering live streams at the highest reliability and confidence, as well as working to approve efficiency for existing workflows.
• Understanding of IP Communications systems, Unity, Green Go, RTS and 4 wire interfaces.
• Experience with streaming protocols (RTMP, HDS, HLS, DASH, SRT), knowledge of encoding protocols (AAC, H.264, H.265)
• An understanding of end-to-end video delivery on various clients.
• A good understanding of 2110 and what’s involved in an IP infrastructure including Gateways and Nodes.
• Work closely with engineering team and the director in all production related support including communications system and external transmissions system involving baseband and IP.
• Understand the client’s transmission requirements and workflows. I strong Understanding of Switchers and from GVG to Ross Video systems, Graphics such as Xpression,Vizrt, SMT, Chyron.
• Automate new deployments using available systems such as AWS, Harmonics, Net insight, LiveU and internal encoding systems.
• Locally and remotely deploy troubleshoot systems across the country when required.
• Support for our operations and production teams including after hours on call.
• Manage highly reliable systems intended for on-air environments.
• Execute scripts and utilities to automate data collection for analysis.
• Build monitoring systems and tools.
• Collaboratively work to standardize cutting-edge large-scale streaming technologies.
• Setup and maintenance of such systems including on-air Video and audio transmissions.
• DANTE and MADI and AES67 knowledge base experience.
• Other responsibilities as assigned
Qualifications:
Required:
• This role will focus on the engineering, operations, deployment, troubleshooting, organization, and technical communication of all NEPSF infrastructure rollout.
• This position will deliver numerous high-profile milestones as required by the business under supervision and support including maintaining and managing infrastructure/services, rolling out new encode solutions, delivering live streams at the highest reliability and confidence, as well as working to approve efficiency for existing workflows.
• Understanding of IP Communications systems, Unity, Green Go, RTS and 4 wire interfaces.
• Experience with streaming protocols (RTMP, HDS, HLS, DASH, SRT), knowledge of encoding protocols (AAC, H.264, H.265)
• An understanding of end-to-end video delivery on various clients.
• A good understanding of 2110 and what’s involved in an IP infrastructure including Gateways and Nodes.
• Work closely with engineering team and the director in all production related support including communications system and external transmissions system involving baseband and IP.
• Understand the client’s transmission requirements and workflows. I strong Understanding of Switchers and from GVG to Ross Video systems, Graphics such as Xpression,Vizrt, SMT, Chyron.
• Automate new deployments using available systems such as AWS, Harmonics, Net insight, LiveU and internal encoding systems.
• Locally and remotely deploy troubleshoot systems across the country when required.
• Support for our operations and production teams including after hours on call.
• Manage highly reliable systems intended for on-air environments.
• Execute scripts and utilities to automate data collection for analysis.
• Build monitoring systems and tools.
• Collaboratively work to standardize cutting-edge large-scale streaming technologies.
• Setup and maintenance of such systems including on-air Video and audio transmissions.
• DANTE and MADI and AES67 knowledge base experience.
• Working knowledge of streaming media protocols: HTTP Live Streaming (HLS), DASH, CMAF, RTMP, etc.
• Experience in developing/deploying media streaming services in the cloud.
• Knowledge of media codecs, formats, transports, and container protocols, such as MPEG-2, H.264/AVC, AAC, AC3, MP4, TS, etc.
• Understanding of CDN architectures (caches, origin servers, proxies, etc.).
• Experience working with Closed Captioning standards, DRM, and related technologies.
• Schedule flexibility with the ability to work late nights, weekends, and holidays. Weekends required.
Company:
NEP Group is the world’s most trusted media services and live events partner in live sports and entertainment. Founded in 1984, the company is headquartered in Pittsburgh, USA, with a team of 1001-5000 employees. The company is currently Late Stage.