What are the responsibilities and job description for the Broadcast Engineer position at Insight Global?
Logistics:
Length: 12 month contract w/ expectations of extensions or full-time conversion
Location: Stamford, CT (4, 10-hour shifts / morning-afternoon)
Pay Rate: $30-35/hr
Must Haves:
- 2 years of Broadcast & Streaming Engineering experience
- Experience encoding live stream
- Prior experience working within an OTT Environment
- Prior experience supporting & working within a NOC (network operations center)
- Understanding of IP networking: the use of internet protocol (IP) networks to transmit and receive streaming content like video and audio
- Knowledge of video transport standards/protocols (how things are transported over network
- (e.g., MPEG, HEVC, HLS, RTP, ASI, HLS, CMAF, DASH) and DAI standards (e.g., SCTE 104 and SCTE 35)
Plusses:
- Streaming or industry experience
- CCNA Certifications
- CompTIA certification
Day-to-Day:
Insight Global is hiring for a Streaming Broadcast Engineer to sit onsite in Stamford, CT for a large, multimedia & entertainment client. This Streaming Broadcast Engineer will be joining the Streaming Video Operations within the Direct-to-Consumer Organization. This Engineer will be working alongside roughly 40 individuals comprised of engineers, operators, and ad inserters supporting the hardware and software in the operation systems. This engineer will be responsible for monitoring live stream tools and responding to any outages, fibers cuts for a circuit, ensure the engineering designs, plans, maintenance, and other activities result in a safe and reliable transmission operation, liaison with other engineers, operators, and leadership to facilitate support of cross-disciplinary operations and engineered systems, and interface with telecommunications carriers and vendors to identify, escalate and resolve issues, commit maintenance windows, as well as improve on overall performance.
Salary : $30 - $35