AV Systems Engineer

November 20

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Media • Non-profit • Social Impact

NPR is a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing breaking news, analysis, music, arts, and podcasts. As a prominent figure in journalism, NPR covers top stories in U. S. and world news, politics, health, science, business, and culture. Among its many offerings, NPR is known for its diverse range of podcasts and programming that include news, music, and cultural topics, thereby fulfilling its mission of public service journalism and cultural exploration.

- employees

Founded 1970

📱 Media

🤝 Non-profit

🌍 Social Impact

💰 $4.7M Grant on 2020-05

📋 Description

• Reports to the Manager, Content Solutions Group, Content Production Technology. • Install, configure, maintain, monitor and manage audio and video production equipment and systems. • Serve as a technical liaison between internal teams, member stations, and vendors that offer collaborative production technologies • System-level support for the Content Operations team responsible for Live video streaming, broadcast audio segmentation and video / podcast operational support • Support for audio and visuals teams utilizing ‘craft’ editing systems like Adobe Premiere and Protools. • Enterprise support for production collaboration tools like Lucidlink • Design, build, and maintain workflows to: • Encode audio and video into multiple file formats for digital distribution using enterprise level encoding software • Deliver encoded audio and video content to NPR asset management tools, Archive and publishing systems. • Collaborate to develop processes and procedures used in the streaming and recording of audio and video on npr.org, member station sites and 3rd party content partners for live breaking news coverage, concerts and other events • Recommend and implement changes to the overall system and network environments through following an institutionalized change management process • Assist in the administration of DAVID Systems, NPR’s Enterprise Audio production system. • Document processes, procedures, instructions, and training materials for users and other stakeholders • Pursue expansion of knowledge and skills in current and emerging production technologies • Respond to critical system issues as part of a 24x7x365 on-call team. • Provide regular shared on-call support rotation with other A/V System Engineers.

🎯 Requirements

• 3-5 years of experience in audio and or video production and streaming environments. • Experience working with live streaming and content capture workflows. • Experience with file-based workflows and transcoding software, audio/video codecs, wrappers and related specifications (FFMPEG, etc) • Experience with file-based workflows and supporting technologies such as a MAM, File Orchestrators, and CMS. • Knowledge of clustered file system technologies such as Isilon, Dell and CEPH • Experience with file management tools • Experience with enterprise media production • Experience with container-based applications such as Docker or Kubernetes • Experience with commonly used scripting languages (Python and Shell) • Experience with Command Line Interface (CLI) prompts • Experience with TCP/IP networking technologies (routing, switching, Cisco, etc) • Experience in deploying and scaling redundant infrastructure • Proven ability to write clear, concise documentation • Passionate about automation.

🏖️ Benefits

• Health and wellness access • Paid time off • Medical plans • Dental insurance • Vision insurance • Life/accidental death and dismemberment insurance • Long-term disability • Short-term disability • Voluntary retirement savings