Broadcast Media Engineer (1 Year Contract)
Hauppauge, NY
Temporary
Experienced
About Grass Valley
With our award-winning technology and trusted expertise, Grass Valley enables and empowers creators, broadcasters and media organizations to produce brilliant content that captivates audiences and connects people through the magic of media.
As the industry’s R&D powerhouse, we offer the widest and deepest range of best-in-class solutions in the industry. We are the trusted partner to many of the biggest and most creative names in the media and entertainment business as we help our customers to build successful media businesses and navigate the rapidly shifting mediascape.
Our people are creative, knowledgeable, passionate and dedicated, working together to deliver high quality solutions and services to customers all over the world. We are looking for our future ambassadors, technologists, thought leaders and innovators to continue this beautiful journey with us. This is your opportunity, join us!
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The Role:
Grass Valley is looking for an experienced Broadcast Media Engineer to work embedded in one of our major global broadcast customers. This role plays a key part in designing media supply chain and Media Asset Management (MAM) architectures, developing broadcast media workflows, and implementing software tools to ensure media assets are efficiently ingested, processed, stored, retrieved, archived, and delivered. All workflows must meet strict standards for security, scalability, and compliance with media management and information security policies. The engineer will collaborate closely with production, post-production, and content operations teams to design and configure systems that manage large volumes of video, audio, image, and metadata assets for linear playout.
The main responsibilities:
System Architecture and Workflow Design:
- Lead and support cloud migration efforts, including workflow refactoring and validation for both hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
- Collaborate with Operations teams to design and adapt architecture and workflows to meet evolving business needs including migration to cloud-based playout platforms.
- Implement, test and deliver workflows that facilitate the ingest of media assets and graphics from production teams and external vendors.
- Install and configure third-party software applications to enable integrated workflows across interconnected systems.
- Identify business requirements for Media Asset Management architecture, database structure, and metadata management.
- Develop and enforce metadata taxonomy and tagging standards. Manage database design including appropriate metadata tags to ensure discoverability and contextual accuracy.
- Create requirements documents and Change Requests for modifications to third-party MAM tools and software to meet evolving business requirements
- Maintain detailed system documentation and support materials to enable Tech Support teams to own the ongoing maintenance of related systems.
- Partner with Systems Integration teams to design, test, and deploy loosely coupled, API-driven workflows for media registration, playlist translation, and as-run reconciliation workflows.
- Collaborate with Media Supply Chain team to implement file delivery tools for broadcast and streaming assets
- Collaborate with Operations teams and Infrastructure teams to design and automate the monitoring and management of digital media asset storage systems (on-prem and/or cloud).
- Work closely with Storage Engineering teams to implement media workflows that seamlessly integrate with existing infrastructure and fulfil operational needs.
- Collaborate with stakeholders and vendors to systematically test, modify, and deploy workflow changes.
- Coordinate and execute systemic changes, in collaboration with third party Software and Service providers, to accommodate evolving media delivery and metadata strategies.
- Collaborate with Technical Operations teams and Vendors to manage change control process.
- Ensure compliance with corporate infosec standards, including adherence to retention policies and access control best practices.
- Manage access controls and permissions for various user groups.
- Serve as Level 3 engineering resource during troubleshooting, collaborating with IT and Operations to diagnose and resolve system issues and implement updates.
- Ensure systems and workflows are compliant with information security requirements, digital rights management best practices, and internal company policy.
- Maintain disaster recovery protocols and collaborate with Operations to conduct regular tests to ensure reliability.
- Provide training and documentation for internal users.
- Hands-on experience designing, administering and maintaining one or similar platforms (e.g., Aspera, Avid Media Central, CatDV, Dalet, Adobe Frame.io, IPV Curator, Evertz Mediator-X, Vizrt Viz One, Dalet Flex, Grass Valley Stratus, Imagine Communications Nexio-Motion, Ross Video Streamline Xchange, Signiant Media Shuttle etc.)
- Strong familiarity with media formats, codecs, and production workflows.
- Experience planning and implementing MAM systems and workflows.
- Experience with RESTful APIs and integration of disparate systems in a media supply chain.
- Proficiency with metadata management and taxonomy best practices.
- Knowledge of cloud storage platforms (AWS S3, Google Cloud, Azure, Oracle Cloud)
- Familiarity with post-production tools (Adobe Creative Cloud, Final Cut Pro, etc.).
- Excellent organizational, analytical, and communication skills.
Preferred qualifications:
- Knowledge and experience in scripting, automation, data acquisition, measurement, and analysis tools.
- Knowledge of content delivery networks (CDNs) and streaming protocols.
- Understanding of broadcast, OTT, or streaming platform requirements.
- Experience managing large-scale media archives and DAM-to-MAM integrations.
- Familiarity with Agile project management tools and techniques such as SCRUM and JIRA.
- Demonstrates ability to manage assigned projects to tight timelines.
- Demonstrates ability to perform technical analysis, exercise judgment, communicate with clarity and influence key technical decisions.
- Possesses understanding of the modern video technology landscape including broadcast and streaming media.
- Remains grounded in scientific method and objective analysis, always representing a disciplined engineering approach.
- Maintains awareness of the best practices in the broadcast industry and implements forward-looking competitive solutions.
- Competitive compensation package
- Comprehensive benefits including a flexible time off policy
- Energizing and supportive work environment
This job description is intended to describe the general nature and level of work involved for this job. It is not an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required of this job.
Grass Valley is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions without regard to gender, marital status, race, religion, color, age, disability, sexual orientation or protected veteran status.
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