IT Operations Engineer Internship

BMAT Music Innovators; United States; Remote; USD 52,000 - 86,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working hours

Unlimited time off

Own your role

Flat hierarchy

Language classes

Courses and workshops

Equipment provided

Barcelona HQ access

Job summary

BMAT is seeking a technically hands-on engineer to support and evolve the Recordings system. You will help manage a network of servers and contribute to capturing audio/video signals across platforms, while collaborating with a young, enthusiastic team in Barcelona.

The role emphasizes Linux proficiency, scripting, problem-solving, and proactive automation as the team scales the monitoring platform.

Qualifications

• Comfortable in a Linux environment and scripting languages don’t scare you.
• You have an instinct for listening, asking, understanding and communicating.
• You get the most out of your time when working in a team.
• You are curious about how things work and enjoy finding ways to solve problems.
• You think uncertainty creates opportunity rather than stress.
• You are self-motivated and always willing to learn.
• You tend to find the most efficient way to solve problems.

Responsibilities

• Help maintain a network of 200+ servers in 50+ countries around the world.
• Help configure servers to capture Audio / Video signals.
• Assist with installing and maintaining servers in data centers.
• Work with encoding/transcoding of Audio and Video signals.
• Communicate with hostings, providers, customers, and other teams.
• Help troubleshoot and find solutions to recording and infrastructure issues.
• Support the team in automating repetitive tasks and improving processes.

Skills

Team collaboration

Problem solving

Communication skills

Linux environment

Scripting languages

English fluency

Tools

Python

FFmpeg

Job description

In our Recordings team at BMAT, we are responsible for recording more than 7000 channels worldwide in order to feed our real time music monitoring platform (Vericast). To do so, we have deployed more than 250 recording servers all over the world to get even the most remote regional channel.

Your responsibilities will be to support the maintenance and evolution of the current system, helping the recording team take it to the next level.

It is a challenging and ambitious project surrounded by a young and enthusiastic team.

You would be based in Barcelona.

What You Will Be Doing

The objective of the Recordings team is to record audio and video content coming from a wide variety of platforms and countries. Your main tasks will include:

• Help maintain a network of 200+ servers in 50+ countries around the world.
• Help configure servers to capture Audio / Video / TV / Radio signals.
• Assist with installing and maintaining servers in data centers.
• Work with encoding/transcoding of Audio and Video signals.
• Communicate with hostings, providers, customers, and other tech and non-tech teams of the company.
• Help troubleshoot and find solutions to recording and infrastructure issues.
• Support the team in automating repetitive tasks and improving existing processes.

Requirements

• You are comfortable working in a Linux environment and scripting languages don’t scare you.
• You have an instinct for listening, asking, understanding and communicating.
• You get the most out of your time when working in a team.
• You are curious about how things work and enjoy finding ways to solve problems.
• You think uncertainty creates opportunity rather than stress.
• You are self-motivated and always willing to learn.
• You tend to find the most efficient way to solve problems.

Bonus track

• Experience Python
• Experience with FFmpeg
• Basic knowledge of networking, servers or infrastructure.

Language

• Fluently English
• Spanish is a plus

Benefits

You Can Enjoy

• Flexible working hours and location
• Unlimited time off because we believe that you know best when you need to rest.
• You can make the role your own and run your own development
• Flat hierarchy
• Online language classes to improve your Spanish or English
• Online and onsite courses and music industry workshops run by in-house experts
• We’ll provide you with all equipment needed for you to be comfortable
• Barcelona HQ office available to you, kitted out with a rehearsal room https://www.bmat.com/bmat-house/

Who the FAQ are BMAT

BMAT started in 2005 when a group of engineers with a passion for music decided to spin-off from an audio research lab in Barcelona. We’re now over 250 people, spread across Barcelona, Buenos Aires, Lima, Rio de Janeiro, London, Paris, Nairobi, Oslo, Tel-Aviv, Singapore, Tokyo, Manila, Bangkok and Lagos.

We’re a team of pretty decent people who enjoy working with each other. We’re open-minded and well-traveled, coming from all parts of the world. We’ve got rappers, producers, cello players, DJs, and songwriters. The passion for music, the excitement for innovative technology and Barcelona as a backdrop has proven to make a good combination.

Join us from wherever you are on our mission to help make music live forever.

Diverse perspectives drive innovation, and innovation is kind of our thing. Our open-minded and flexible culture organically fosters this diversity. We've learnt that we thrive on learning from each other, so we don't just welcome but actively hire a range of open-minded people from all walks of life. Our team is made up of people with different backgrounds, perspectives, orientations, abilities, musical tastes, dress sense and time-zones - but we all have one common goal: Making the music world a better place. With equal opportunities for everyone, BMAT is a pretty nice place to work.