Staff Operational Support Engineer L2

Avispa Technology; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 103,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

Life insurance

Retirement savings

PSL

Job summary

Avispa Technology in Atlanta, GA is seeking a Staff Operational Support Engineer L2 to manage 24/7 live video streaming operations, incident response, and production changes. You will own escalated issues, work with IaC practices, and drive automation and observability across live delivery platforms.

The role requires strong experience with streaming technologies, distributed systems, and on-call incident management, with daily on-site work for a leading media tech environment.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5+ years in operational, support, or customer-facing roles.
• Experience supporting production video streaming platforms, OTT services, and live systems.
• Strong troubleshooting skills across distributed systems and cloud infrastructure.
• Knowledge of HLS, DASH, CMAF, WebRTC, DRM, and CDN architectures.
• Experience with monitoring, alerting, and logging tools (Grafana, Kibana/ELK, Prometheus, Loki).
• Ability to correlate backend metrics to diagnose live customer issues end-to-end.
• Comfort with controlled production changes and on-call operations.

Responsibilities

• Own escalated customer issues from Level 1 through resolution for live streams and related services.
• Apply IaC with Terraform, Helm, Kubernetes manifests; use GitOps for safe changes and CI/CD pipelines.
• Improve incident response with automation, AI-assisted triage, and runbooks.
• Support pre-event readiness and respond to critical alerts within SLAs.
• Contribute to post-incident reviews with RCAs, runbooks, and knowledge base improvements.

Skills

5+ years experience

Production video streaming

Troubleshooting distributed systems

HLS/DASH/CMAF/WebRTC

Monitoring/logging tools

Incident management

On-call production changes

Tools

Grafana

Kibana/ELK

Prometheus

Loki

Job description

Staff Operational Support Engineer L2 37639950

• Hourly pay: $70/hr
• Worksite: Leading audio, video, and voice technologies company (Atlanta, GA 30308 - Onsite)
• W2 Employment, Group Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, Retirement Savings Program, PSL
• 40 hours/week, 12 Month Assignment

A leading video, audio, and voice technologies company Staff Operational Support Engineer L2 to provide operational support for 24/7 live video streaming, advertising, player, and real-time delivery platforms.

Staff Operational Support Engineer L2 Responsibilities:

• Own escalated customer issues from Level 1 Support through resolution, troubleshooting complex production incidents affecting live streams, VOD playback, ad insertion, DRM, and real-time WebRTC services; operate directly in production environments to perform configuration changes, CDN adjustments, mitigations, and emergency changes when required, while providing clear and timely customer-facing communication and leading or contributing to live incident bridges with customers, internal teams, and partners.
• Work with Infrastructure as Code as the primary mechanism for safe, auditable, and repeatable production changes, using Terraform, Helm, Kubernetes manifests, GitOps workflows, CI/CD and deployment pipelines; validate and execute infrastructure and configuration changes through codified workflows and collaborate with Engineering and DevOps to improve deployment reliability and operational safety.
• Improve operational efficiency and incident response, including AI-assisted incident triage and classification, automated runbook execution, AI-based incident pattern detection, intelligent alert correlation and noise reduction, automated or improved incident communications, accelerated troubleshooting workflows, and identification of recurring or systemic issues; drive adoption of automation-first and AI-augmented operational practices.
• Support pre-event operational readiness for critical customer events through runbook checks, monitoring coverage validation, risk identification and mitigation planning, and rehearsed incident-response strategies, and respond to critical alerts within defined SLAs for stream health, player errors, and delivery infrastructure.
• Perform and contribute to root cause analyses, document findings and corrective and preventive actions, identify recurring issues and partner with Engineering and Product teams to eliminate them, improve runbooks, operational playbooks, and knowledge bases across player, advertising, live-streaming, and real-time products, support production deployments and defect resolution, provide feedback on observability, tooling gaps, and operational risks, and serve as the operational voice during post-incident reviews.

Staff Operational Support Engineer L2 Qualifications:

• 5+ years of relevant experience in operational, support, or similar customer-facing roles.
• Experience supporting production video streaming platforms, OTT services, and live systems.
• Troubleshooting skills across distributed systems, including APIs, microservices, and cloud infrastructure.
• Familiarity with HLS, DASH, CMAF, WebRTC, DRM, and CDN architectures.
• Experience using monitoring, alerting, and logging tools such as Grafana, Kibana/ELK, Prometheus, and Loki to diagnose live incidents.
• Ability to correlate backend streaming metrics, player telemetry, and CDN signals to diagnose live customer issues end-to-end.
• Comfort performing controlled changes in production environments.
• Working knowledge of incident management and on-call operations.

Shift:

• 24/7 On-Call Rotation: Includes nights, weekends, and holidays as part of a global support model, ensuring effective handoffs between shifts and regions.