Sr Director Broadcast Distribution Engineering & Operations
Paramount
- New York City, NY
- Permanent
- Full-time
This position is responsible for:
- Oversee the CBS New York Distribution operations and ensure timely and effective resolution of any issues.
- Optimize the performance and reliability of all technical systems involved in Distribution & Signal Intake.
- Coordinate with Technical Maintenance teams to provide support and guidance for debugging and repairing distribution systems.
- Analyze daily logs and call reports from Affiliate stations to identify and address any Network delivery problems.
- Monitor and report on key performance indicators for system performance, maintenance, and resolution.
- Liaise with CBS Sports & News to understand and fulfill their daily, weekly, and special event needs.
- Lead and mentor other CBS Production Operations & Engineering team members to align with priorities and standard processes, and to achieve or surpass department and business key performance indicators.
- Day-to-day operations and management of Union and Non-Union 24x7 operating departments.
- Define, engineer & test improved transmission efficiency.
- Project involves refresh and improvements to Affiliate distribution systems. Including system M&C, metrics, and management.
- Affiliate Distribution System Nextgen System scope and definition.
- Research, propose, prototype, specify and deploy an IP based Internet or Private Line IP delivery solution to Affiliates.
- Conversion of core facilities and systems to support an IP based infrastructure migration.
- Collaborate in designing and implementing new intra- and inter-facility transmission facilities.
- Digital Transformation of Broadcast Distribution operational systems.
- 10+ years of experience in distribution transmission engineering & operations.
- Proficient in Cloud-based solutions, demonstrating expertise in the methods for application standup and deployment of distribution technologies using CDN or similar terrestrial solutions.
- Display creative thinking, as well as strong problem-solving, time-management, interpersonal, and communication skills.
- Hold a BSEE/BSCE or other engineering degrees. Relevant work experience in lieu of a degree will also be considered.
- Experience in building full time video & data service networks.
- On-site experience at remote venues, in both Sports and News situations
- Ability to efficiently run multiple threads of projects.
- Experience in technical writing and design documentation
- Portfolio of successful media facility projects designed and deployed.
- Certification in AWS Cloud Systems is highly desirable but not mandatory.
- Certification in Cisco Enterprise, and/or Security levels is highly desirable but not mandatory.