Media Technician

JOB DETAILS:

Title:                     Media Technician

Location:              Remote Work (client is based out in Phoenix, AZ and Los Angeles, CA)

Type:                    12+ Months Contract (Long term - Extendable)

Job Description:

General Summary

• Clients Enterprise Media Services (EMS) department is responsible for ingestion, transformation, distribution of media for linear and non-linear broadcast workflows for all networks wholly or partially owned by client.
• EMS is a 24/7 mission critical operation which supports several business units across sports, news and entertainment.
• Client is looking for a stellar Media Technician who has knowledge and hands-on experience in broadcast processes, systems, and operations.
• Candidates who seek employment must be available to work 24/7 in shifts.
• Under general supervision, the position is responsible for entire media supply chain for all assets, both physical and digital le-based assets.
• This includes ingesting, metadata tagging, validating, archiving, tracking, restoring and delivery of all media assets supporting EMS and their clients, partners, and vendors.
• This position involves maintenance and organization of all metadata associated with various media assets, in order to ensure easy accessibility.

Responsibilities:

• Full media and metadata needs for several internal and external stakeholders such as content creators, vendors, broadcast operations, digital operations, post production, and various studios and post houses via work orders, media asset management systems, le transfer acceleration tools, cloud and on-premises storage, playout automation systems and media service desk, phone, or email.
• Process media through various media management systems and tag metadata when required.
• Monitor and process notifications from automated workflow engines, video transcode engines, and analyze QC reports to identify any problematic media that does not meet broadcast specs and advise management and senior staff of issues.
• Maintain and catalog material into media asset management systems to ensure quick and accurate retrieval of media assets.
• Manage multiple storage tiers in cloud and on premises and assign lifecycle policies for archival, restoration, and purging of media.
• Onboard internal and external content creators and clients for media ingestion,
• Create weekly reports providing media status updates.
• Create schedules and send to broadcast operations to generate 'show not-mades', confirm with engineer that media is available in cloud or on-premises and create missing media lists (2 weeks ahead of air date) of future shows and events for all network clients.

Qualifications

• Must have strong verbal / written communication skills, and aptitude to communicate with all levels of management.
• Intermediate proficiency in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook) is required.
• Knowledge of media asset management systems and broadcast workflows orchestrators is helpful.
• Must be able to perform basic mathematical computations and be able to think and work in multiple time zones.
• Ability to handle multiple tasks simultaneously, work independently, and be resourceful is favored.
• Must be comfortable working in a fast-paced environment while multitasking with attention to detail, accuracy, and excellent follow-up skills. Ability to touch type a minimum of 25 WPM is required.
• Must have extremely good organizational skills, customer services skills, and must be able to work effectively under daily time constraints in a face-paced and high-pressure work environment.
• Ability to work a flexible schedule is required, including nights, holidays and weekends.
• The position is expected to participate in cross training within the department.
• A valid driver's license and ability to drive is required.

Education & Training

• Bachelor's degree in a related field is desired but not required.
• Experience with digital media ingestion, transcoding, processing, delivery preferred.
• One or more years of experience in a fast-paced corporate, broadcast or production environment desired.

Thank you for your time and consideration.

Thanks & Regards

Lokesh (Luke) | Talent Acquisition

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