Broadcast Systems Engineer — Live Sports Production

Amazon Inc.; Culver City (CA); On-site; USD 127,000 - 223,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon is seeking a Broadcast Systems Engineer for Prime Video Live Sports to design, deploy, and operate compute and virtualization infrastructure powering live events. You will join a core engineering team collaborating with network engineers, technicians, and architects on the Culver City campus to deliver scalable broadcast systems.

The role emphasizes automation, patch management, on-call support during broadcasts, documentation, and security-first design in partnership with Amazon

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience.
• 6+ years of hands-on experience in broadcast systems engineering within live production or media infrastructure environments.
• Linux, Windows and macOS system administration experience at scale.
• Hands-on experience administering enterprise hypervisor platforms (Proxmox VE, VMware vSphere) including VM and container lifecycle, storage configuration, and HA management.
• Experience provisioning and maintaining bare metal servers: IPMI/iDRAC/iLO, BIOS management, RAID configuration, and hardware troubleshooting.
• Scripting and automation experience (Bash, Python, Node.js) applied to infrastructure tasks.
• Solid broadcast networking fundamentals: IP addressing, VLANs, network segmentation, multicast, basic L3 routing.
• Experience configuring and maintaining infrastructure monitoring and alerting platforms (Grafana, Prometheus, Zabbix, Nagios, or equivalent).
• Working knowledge of broadcast signal formats and transport methods (SDI, ST 2110, SRT, JPEG‑XS, AoIP/Dante).

Responsibilities

• Deploy and integrate production systems with network and broadcast engineers, vendors, and staff.
• Manage full lifecycle of server infrastructure: procurement support, provisioning, configuration, patching, decommissioning.
• Administer Linux, Windows, and macOS systems at scale across production and engineering environments.
• Maintain a systematic patching program across the fleet with testing pipelines and rollback procedures.
• Automate repeatable tasks by building scripts, pipelines, and tooling.
• Manage and maintain Proxmox VE hypervisor clusters and remote machines for broadcast apps and services.
• Maintain and improve monitoring and alerting across compute, virtualization, storage, network, and broadcast systems.
• Maintain records for all infrastructure assets including IP space.
• Provide on-call technical support during live broadcast events.
• Create and maintain documentation including runbooks and inventory records.
• Security-first design in collaboration with Amazon Security.

Skills

Linux administration

Proxmox VE

VMware vSphere

Automation scripting

Python

Networking basics

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Grafana/Prometheus

IPMI/iDRAC/iLO

SSH/Automation tools

Job description

Amazon is seeking a Broadcast Systems Engineer for Prime Video Live Sports to design, deploy, and operate compute and virtualization infrastructure powering live events. You will join a core engineering team collaborating with network engineers, technicians, and architects on the Culver City campus to deliver scalable broadcast systems.

The role emphasizes automation, patch management, on-call support during broadcasts, documentation, and security-first design in partnership with Amazon