Broadcast Engineer

Reach Media LLC; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Reach Media LLC in Washington, DC is seeking a Broadcast Engineer to build and maintain state-of-the-art contribution, distribution, and routing platforms for international news studios. The role requires deep knowledge of broadcast technologies, TV standards, LAN/WAN networks, and cloud familiarity.

The successful candidate will work on IP-based networks, storage/compute platforms, and on-prem/cloud infrastructure while ensuring high availability and continuous improvement of the facility.

Qualifications

• Must have knowledge of broadcast technologies, television standards, systems and theories along with strong IT skills and installation of IP based systems.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain contribution and distribution platforms for the broadcaster.
• Maintain cutting edge broadcast network infrastructure for the facility.
• Conduct performance and system tests to evolve facility architecture.
• Analyze dashboards to optimize system traffic, security, and identify issues.
• Collaborate with vendor/product teams to implement roadmaps.
• Support on-air broadcast systems.

Skills

Broadcast tech knowledge

IP networking

Teamwork

Problem solving

Strong communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Science/Communications/Electronic Engineering

Cisco CCNA/CCNP

Tools

Lawo audio consoles

Lawo VSMNDI workflows

MOSART automation systems

Riedel intercom systems

VMware administration

AWS/Azure/Google Cloud

Job description

Job Description

Broadcast Engineer

Employment Status: At-will

Reports to: Lead Broadcast Engineer

Compensation: Salaried position commensurate with experience and education

Hours: Full-time, Rotating shifts (Day, Evening, Night)

Travel required: No

Lifting: 50-75lbs lifting as necessary

GENERAL DESCRIPTION

The Broadcast Engineer will be responsible for building and maintaining state of the art contribution, distribution, and routing platforms for the international news studios in Washington, DC. The individual must have deep knowledge of network principles and Broadcast technologies, Television standards, systems, and all aspects of LAN, WAN and WLAN networks and Network services.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS

• Build and maintain state of the art contribution and distribution platforms for the broadcaster.
• Build and maintain cutting edge broadcast network infrastructure for the facility.
• Conduct performance and system tests to continuously evolve facility architecture and infrastructure.
• Analyze dashboards and constantly optimize system traffic, security and identify bugs in the facility.
• Collaborate with vendor product development teams, operational teams, engineering teams to develop long term strategy and implement roadmaps.
• Work with broadcast switches and routers for effective signal distribution throughout all operational areas.
• Work with IP-based network technologies, WAN interconnects, virtual machines, AD domain services, group policy deployment and database administration.
• Support on-air broadcast systems

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• Must have knowledge of broadcast technologies, television standards, systems and theories along with strong IT skills and installation of IP based systems.
• Understand SMPTE standards and implements quality control on broadcast center equipment.
• In-depth experience and talent in using packet/protocol analyzers, TCP dump to find and remedy application and network performance issues.
• Ability to work alone as an individual contributor, as a technical lead (when required) and as a participant in a team environment.
• Work on on-prem and cloud-based storage and compute infrastructure platforms. Ensure technology on site complies with company’s business continuity and disaster recovery plans.
• Lawo audio consoles and broadcast audio systems
• Lawo VSMNDI workflows and IP-based broadcast infrastructure
• MOSART automation systems
• Riedel intercom systems
• Broadcast audio mixing and troubleshooting
• Live production and studio operations
• Other duties, as assigned
• Strong documentation skills, including maintaining signal flow diagrams, system configurations, and technical documentation.
• Providing implementation services related to the specifications, installation, configuration, administration, testing, training and support of high availability network infrastructure.
• Designing IP scheme and network diagram for multi-server environments.
• Create and maintain comprehensive documentation for all implemented.
• Maintenance and problem resolution, operating system patches and software upgrades, and routine hardware configuration.
• Responds to emergency situations as needed for the purpose of resolving immediate concerns.
• Good knowledge of broadcast engineering and IT technologies. VMware system administration for medium sized business with multiple offices.
• Experience with AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Cloudflare and other cloud services providers is a major plus.
• Self-starter, ideally with business start-up experience
• Teamwork focused attitude geared toward knowledge transfer within a multi-skilled team
• Excellent problem-solving skills
• Excellent people management and communication skills
• Ability to work in fast moving environment

EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE

• Bachelor’s degree in Science, Communications, Electronic Engineering or related field preferred; or Technical school training with electronics training and related experience.
• Cisco Certifications (CCNA/CCNP)
• 5+ Years of experience in broadcast environment.