Description
We are urgently a Digital Media System Engineer for a contract in Ealing.
You will be responsible for working as part of a project delivery team to deliver new project requirements.
You will have expertise in building and configuring digital media technology systems in the areas of MAM, transcoding and live streaming services and will be highly IT literate to systems admin level on both Linux and Windows based platforms.
The role encompasses an element of 3rd line support, particularly in the delivery phase, and there is a strong focus on documenting and handing solutions over to operational support.
Also required:
- Substantial experience of building and supporting business applications on both Windows and Linux server platforms.
- Knowledge and experience of troubleshooting one of the following Linux distributions: SuSe, Red Hat Enterprise, Centos.
- Knowledge and experience of troubleshooting on Windows Servers.
- Basic experience of Windows/Linux Scripting and script debugging
- Understanding of IP Networking and common protocols such as FTP.
- Experience of Senior Management liaison and should be familiar with presenting information of a complex technical nature to a variety of audiences.
- Experience of managing 3rd party software vendors with regard to ensuring maximum support effectiveness.
- Some knowledge of project work and methodologies, ideally gained through involvement in complex high profile projects in the broadcast sector.
- Experience with video transcoders. Eg: Telestream Vantage, Rhozet Carbon Server, and Ateme Titan.
- Understanding of the workflows and methodologies of Digital Asset Management. Eg: Tedial, VizRT Ardome, and Pharos Mediator.
In addition, the following skills would be highly beneficial:
- Relational database queries (SQL) across a number of database server types.
- Bash, Perl, Sed, Awk, Windows Batch Scripting, etc.
- Set up, configuration, and maintenance of common Windows/Linux server applications, including Samba, PureFTPD, and Microsoft IIS.
- Knowledge of broadcast video formats, protocols, and encoding standards.
- Knowledge & experience of Storage and SAN technologies.
- In particular any experience with StorNext or similar Shared Disk File System, and Fibre Channel is desirable.
Project People Ltd is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.