Media Assembly & Playout Technician

Sinclair Broadcast Group•Hunt Valley, MD

1d•$22 - $24•Onsite

About The Position

Sinclair’s content technology is at the core of our operational excellence. We thrive on innovation and a passion for connecting people with the best local news and sports content. As we grow our content offerings and expand our broadcast, cable, and digital distribution channels we’re embracing new technologies to fuel that growth. We’re excited by the promise of cloud-first approaches and artificial intelligence in media systems. We are driven by a belief that flexibility and agility will address rapidly changing media environments and we’re confident that great people and great technology equal great solutions. Your role as Media Assembly & Playout Technician is to support the national network of broadcast stations in delivering a cloud-distribution of the local linear stream. You will ensure that station services are maintained with appropriate service levels and monitor all technical broadcast activities related to Cloud Assembly and Playout. This program stream will be built on our next-generation media ecosystem operating in the cloud and with data-driven systems and monitoring services that provide high levels of visibility to the larger organization. The Media Assembly & Playout Technician will be part of Sinclair’s Engineering and Operations team and will work closely with other technology teams to analyze and troubleshoot issues related to Amagi content management, playlist scheduling, air-chain.

Requirements

2+ years of prior master control experience
Experience in troubleshooting operational issues (Playout, Media, Caption, etc.)
2+ years managing complex media and technology operating environments
Demonstrated experience analyzing complex operational problems and providing solutions
Excellent communication and relationship building skills with various technology and operations teams
You must be local to Hunt Valley, MD to be considered for this role as this position is located on-site.

Nice To Haves

Experience with an IP and/or Cloud broadcast media systems (A plus)
Experience with digital workflows and digital video technologies (A plus)
Experience in training and development standard operations procedures for technical operations (A plus)
Experience with Encoder and IRDs Hardware (A plus)
Experience in Local Station Operations (A plus)
Experience in incident management and NOC Operations (A plus)

Responsibilities

Providing Tier 1 and Tier 2 operational media services to a national broadcast group
Working with third party vendors to track and resolve technical issues with in the playout system
Demonstrating capability of routing and recording centralized satellite feeds and syndicated programming to acceptable technical standards
Solve/troubleshoot problems in a crisis, i.e., perform disaster recovery procedures
Working closely with Cloud Site Reliability Engineers to ensure delivery of all media operations.
Maintaining and leveraging appropriate data collection and monitoring systems to ensure visibility and communication on the status of media operations
In case of emergency, being able to operate the Station master control and playout.
Working with external consulting teams to assist in operational efficiency efforts
Approaching operations and resourcing using an agile and lean mindset
Enthusiastically engaging in understanding and learning new technologies and applying them creatively