Senior Live Event Technology Specialist

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🕒 March 20

🏄 California, New York – Remote

🏄 California – Remote 🗽 New York – Remote

💵 $110k - $165k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🎪 Events

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Paramount

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1912

💼 Consulting

📣 Marketing

📱 Media

Consulting • Marketing • Media

Paramount is a global multimedia entertainment and news company that offers a range of services including direct-to-consumer digital subscription video on-demand and live streaming through Paramount+. It also owns Pluto TV, a leading free streaming television service, MTV, the world’s premier youth entertainment brand, and CBS Sports, a leader in television sports broadcasts. Paramount Pictures, since 1912, has been a legendary producer and distributor of films, hosting a library of over 1,000 titles. The company is deeply committed to inclusion and impact, focusing on diversity, global sustainability, and content that affects change. Being a significant player in both live and on-demand streaming services, Paramount embraces a wide array of content from sports to kids’ entertainment, comedy, and groundbreaking documentaries, impacting both linear and streaming platforms globally.

📋 Description

• Lead and support 24/7 global live streaming operations for Tier-1 events (sports, entertainment, special broadcasts). • Make real-time operational decisions, coordinate service partners, and guide Live Event Operators during live transmissions. • Operate, monitor, and troubleshoot end-to-end streaming workflows across acquisition, encoding, packaging/origin, CDN distribution, and QoS/QoE monitoring. • Act as the primary operational contact during live events, proactively identifying and resolving issues (latency, buffering, playback failures, degradation etc) and coordinating escalations across engineering, vendors, and network partners. • Collaborate cross-functionally on high-severity incidents, prioritizing rapid mitigation while driving root-cause resolution. • Perform pre-event validation, rehearsals, and post-event reviews to ensure readiness and continuous improvement. • Prepare concise operational and incident reports for stakeholders and senior leadership. • Maintain runbooks, knowledge base, and training documentation to standardize operations. • Support onboarding, testing, and rollout of new streaming technologies, workflows, and vendor solutions. • Ensure compliance with SLAs, security requirements, and broadcast-quality standards, including participation in on-call rotations.

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in live streaming operations, broadcast operations, or OTT delivery environments • Experience supporting Tier-1 live events with real-time monitoring, incident response, and escalation management. • Hands-on experience operating large-scale live streaming workflows • Ability to troubleshoot end-to-end streaming pipelines across acquisition, encoding, packaging, origin, and distribution layers. • Familiarity with QoS/QoE monitoring tools, playback analytics, and stream performance diagnostics. • Strong incident management, documentation, and communication skills in high-pressure live production environments. • Familiarity with video transport protocols (zixi, SRT, RIST, RTP etc), Video Encoding/Packaging, Basic networking concepts. • Familiarity with DRM, ad insertion (SSAI), and live event redundancy strategies • Proficiency with HLS/DASH streaming, MPEG-TS/fMP4, DRM basics, SCTE-35 signaling, and ad insertion workflows.

🏖️ Benefits

• medical • dental • vision • 401(k) plan • life insurance coverage • disability benefits • tuition assistance program • PTO • bonus eligible