Senior Video Engineer - IPTV, OTT & Cloud Solutions

Infosys; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 2,400,000; Full time

Job summary

Infosys in Bengaluru seeks a Senior Video Engineer to oversee end-to-end video service integration across B2B/B2C platforms. You will manage encoding/decoding, ABR packaging for HLS and DASH, and optimize codecs and transport pipelines.

Expertise in cloud-native deployments (AWS/GCP), IaC, CI/CD, and container orchestration with Kubernetes is required to drive scalable video delivery across live, recording and VoD services.

Qualifications

• 6+ years in cable/satellite/telco with end-to-end video service integration.
• Hands-on with video pipelines: ingest, encoding/decoding, transcoding for ABR outputs.
• Proficiency with codecs and transport protocols (MPEG-2/4, H.264/H.265, RTP/RTMP, SRT).
• Experience with real-time ABR ladder generation and bitrate optimization.
• Vendor certifications at the professional level.

Skills

Video processing

ABR streaming

Encoding/decoding

HLS/DASH

Codecs

Cloud deployment

IaC

Kubernetes

Docker

CI/CD

AI/ML

Tools

FFmpeg

Ateme

Terraform

Puppet

Ansible

Chef

CloudFormation

Jenkins

Git

Job description

Senior Video Engineer

Minimum 6+ years of proven experience and knowledge in cable, satellite or telco industry with end-to-end system integration of B2B/B2C video services, Video Headend/IPTV/OTT solutions.

Hands-on experience with video processing pipelines: feed contribution, ingest, encoding, decoding, transcoding (offline and real-time), packaging for ABR outputs (HLS, MPEG-DASH, H.264/H.265 profiles). Fluency with video codec ecosystems and transport protocols: MPEG 2/4, GOP structure, I-P-B frames, AVC, HEVC, RTP, RTMP, SRT, SDR/HDR, container formats (MP4, MPEG-TS, fragmented MP4), bitrates and aspect ratios manifest/segment tuning (segment length, fMP4 vs TS) for Live, Replay, Recordings and VoD delivery.

Strong experience with packaging and streaming tooling (FFmpeg, Ateme solutions or equivalent encoders/packagers), real-time ABR ladder generation, bitrate ladder optimization, Dolby audio, closed-captions and subtitles, SCTE-35 ad signalling, client and server-side manifest/ad manipulation. Industry recognized vendor certifications on the Professional level.

• Experience and proficiency with Cloud and Automation to deploy and maintain secure and robust cloud-native solutions across leading public platforms such as AWS and Google Cloud (GCP) - including compute, storage, networking, serverless, multi-region/zone architectures and cost-optimized solutions. Network and security architecture (VPCs, peering, ingress/egress, IAM, encryption, zero-trust).
• Mastery of Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) and Automation tooling: infrastructure provisioning and configuration via frameworks such as Terraform, Puppet, Ansible, Chef or CloudFormation, integration of configuration management best practices and build robust CI/CD pipelines using tools like Jenkins, Git solutions.
• Strong competences in containerisation and orchestration with Kubernetes, Docker/ECK/EKS and GKE.
• Experience with AI, ML, LLM technologies. Deployment of proactive capacity models, upgrades, new features, configuration and releases, tools, mission-critical monitoring in an agile manner to accommodate the platform evolution and growth in line with KPIs and high-availability designs including disaster recovery. Follow industry best practice to deliver new projects ensuring defined blueprint adherence.
• Migration of on-prem and legacy solutions to modern architectures for on-prem and cloud.