Description
Role Description:
The Broadcast Operations Group is a customer centric group of broadcast application support specialists, working on the front line alongside leading broadcast customers. As part of this group, a Support Engineer is responsible for providing third line broadcast application support for all Infrastructure headend solutions installed at the customer sites. The group investigate platform incidents and problems from an end-to-end perspective, to identify where the source of issue resides. The initial focus is on returning platform service, then the root cause analysis to the component and environmental level, and if required to then obtain a suitable software fix. The position is based in Osterley, but also requires travel nationally, and internationally.
Main Responsibilities/Duties:
- Proprietary application support at a major customer site.
- Rapid response to platform incidents, ensuring the customer is always kept up to date with the progress of any investigation, and providing a detailed resolution report including any further actions required.
- Feedback detailed analysis of any software defects to the development team, including project management where required.
- Proficient and timely installations of Cisco headend components for both production and lab customer systems.
- Participate in new system deployments, and take on new solution responsibility, as well as sharing the knowledge within the group.
- Work within an on-call rota to provide 24/7 support escalation for high priority incidents (1 week in 4). Also work within a shifts rota to cover onsite support hours 07:00-19:00 Monday-Friday (shifts being 07:00-15:00 or 11:00-19:00, 1 week in 4).
Technical Skills:
The successful candidate will need to be a highly motivated, quick to learn, experienced Support Engineer, with a strong focus on customer service.
Skills should incorporate the following:
- Digital Broadcast/SI Metadata/CA/DRM software solutions experience
- Solid end-to-end troubleshooting abilities
- Good Linux OS knowledge & capabilities
- Proficient in SQL & relational databases
- Unix Shell or Python Scripting abilities
- Firm understanding of application interaction in IP environments
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