Systems Engineer, NBCU Local Chicago

About the position

We are looking for a Systems Engineer to join the Technology team in Chicago, supporting NBC and Telemundo Chicago. As a Systems Engineer, you will be primarily responsible for implementing and supporting technology and users within our mission critical, media production and enterprise IT environment. If you love a challenge, enjoy working with people, and want to make a positive impact while being a part of a high performing team working at the leading edge of media technology, you could be the perfect match for our team.

Responsibilities

• Gather requirements, plan, and implement technical and workflow solutions for News, Production, and Creative Services partners.
• Administration of media production applications, systems and infrastructure, ensuring reliability of technology and operations.
• Develop and maintain system documentation for operational and troubleshooting purposes.
• Provide technical support, incident response, and customer communication.
• Ensure compliance with NBCUniversal cyber security policies and standards.
• All other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Minimum of 3 years relevant experience.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, radio, television & film, related fields or equivalent experience.

Nice-to-haves

• Support of mid to major market news or live event production operations & 24x7 mission critical technology facilities.
• Expertise in planning, implementation and support of media technology including SDI, NDI and ST-2110 video infrastructures, contribution & distribution encoding, live production systems, news gathering tools, NRCS, NLE, media asset management, and transmission systems.
• Expertise in core IT fundamentals including administration of physical / virtualized / cloud compute & storage, networking, domain & identity management.
• History of successfully leading complex projects resulting in satisfied stakeholders.