Content Delivery Network Video Engineer

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $125k - $175k / year

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✍️ Content Marketing Manager

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Sand Cherry

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51 - 200 employees

🏥 Healthcare

📣 Marketing

📦 Logistics

Healthcare • Marketing • Logistics

Sand Cherry is a consulting firm specializing in delivering strategic business solutions to a variety of clients across numerous industries, including broadband, telecommunications, IT, media, healthcare, and financial services. The company excels in areas such as business process optimization, customer experience enhancement, and digital transformation. Sand Cherry's experienced consultants provide tailored solutions in project management, strategic initiative leadership, and business process optimization to help businesses streamline operations and achieve their growth goals. They are particularly noted for their innovative approaches to digital solutions and their commitment to diversity and inclusion in their business practices.

📋 Description

• Serve as the technical subject matter expert for distributed CDN architecture, video distribution, IP media transport, and network recovery • Design and optimize a large-scale, geographically distributed terrestrial CDN supporting satellite video distribution across the United States • Optimize last-mile bandwidth consumption while maintaining service levels and minimizing operating expenses • Define CONOPS best practices for the terrestrial CDN and packet recovery network • Evaluate traffic engineering, capacity management, geographic distribution, and network efficiency approaches • Design mechanisms to dynamically scale regional CDN capacity during extraordinary demand, significant weather events, and widespread service disruptions • Establish capacity planning methodologies, performance thresholds, and operational activation processes • Develop strategies for balancing network resources across regions based on anticipated demand • Establish packet-loss detection and recovery mechanisms using geographically diverse terrestrial IP networks and real-time video stream reconstruction • Define architecture standards for packet-loss detection, recovery orchestration, data transport, timing synchronization, monitoring, and reporting • Establish recovery performance objectives for recovery rates, latency, availability, and event reporting • Establish network controls for visibility into utilization, performance, capacity, and customer behavior while preserving customer autonomy • Establish operational thresholds, escalation procedures, and controls • Define end-to-end test strategies and plans for laboratory environments, peak demand, and recovery scenarios • Evaluate commercial technology partners and solution offerings • Ensure interoperability with customers' TAP, receiver, headend, and video distribution technologies • Establish lifecycle management processes for evolving video distribution architecture • Collaborate cross-functionally to ensure integration and operational readiness while serving as a trusted advisor • Balance performance, resiliency, scalability, supportability, and cost in architecture decisions

🎯 Requirements

• Minimum of 10+ years of experience designing, engineering, and/or operating large-scale video distribution and IP-based media transport networks • Significant experience designing and operating large, distributed Content Delivery Network (CDN) environments • Proven experience designing and operating carrier-grade video delivery architectures • Strong understanding of terrestrial IP networking, distributed network architecture, traffic management, capacity planning, and network optimization • Proven experience optimizing last-mile bandwidth utilization and reducing network operating costs • Experience designing networks capable of dynamically scaling in response to extraordinary or unpredictable demand • Experience developing Concept of Operations (CONOPS), operational controls, monitoring strategies, and network management processes for large-scale distributed networks • Experience with live and linear video delivery, packet recovery networks, ARQ, RIST-based transport, or media edge distribution architectures • Experience with hybrid satellite-terrestrial video distribution systems • Experience with Video Services Forum specifications, including VSF TR-06-4 Parts 6 & 7 • Experience with satellite distribution, headends, earth stations, TAPs, receivers, or related video distribution infrastructure • Experience selecting and managing technology vendors and external engineering partners • Demonstrated systems thinking and ability to view hybrid video distribution as an end-to-end ecosystem • Ability to connect architecture and engineering decisions to broader business objectives and strategic outcomes • Strong analytical and decision-making skills, with ability to evaluate competing technical approaches and make timely, data-driven recommendations • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with ability to simplify complex technical concepts and influence technical and business stakeholders • Strong collaboration skills across engineering, operations, vendors, customers, and other stakeholders • Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Telecommunications, Broadcast Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical discipline • Must be authorized to work without visa sponsorship or visa transfers • Must not require C2C engagement

🏖️ Benefits

• Professional career growth opportunities • Digital workforce opportunity • Self-responsibility and autonomy in managing workloads • Recognition for employee contributions • Supportive, friendly, and communicative culture