Job Description :
PRINCIPAL ENGINEER II - VOD


Location United States - Colorado - Englewood

Areas of Interest Engineering/Technical Operations
Position Type: Full Time

Company Overview:
Charter Communications is America’s fastest growing TV, internet and voice company. We’re committed to integrating the highest quality service with superior entertainment and communications products. Charter is at the intersection of technology and entertainment, facilitating essential communications that connect 24 million residential and business customers in 41 states. Our commitment to serving customers and exceeding their expectations is the bedrock of Charter’s business strategy and it’s the philosophy that guides our 90,000 employees.

Job Summary:
Principal Engineer II responsible for architecting, integrating, testing and qualifying new products and systems for video content ingest, storage, caching, distribution, personalization, ad insertion, and streaming that work in a centralized way across a network-based, modular platform.
Duties include working with a team of advanced engineers whom support the development, integration, test, and troubleshooting of various technologies which support Charter’s digital headend systems, IP networks, video on demand (VOD), cloud digital video recording (CDVR), time-shifted video services for set-top/mobile/web video delivery for production deployment and engineering labs.
Provide subject matter expertise in the following areas: File Video Workflow, Content Management Systems (CMS), Metadata, OTT, Video Encoding, CDN, IP networking, Session/Resource Management, Stream Control and multiscreen video.
Must have expert level of knowledge with Cisco Videoscape Distribution Suite, Cisco Content Delivery Engine, public/private CDNs, Cisco and Arris Head-ends.
Provide analysis, solution architectures, specifications and test plans in support of various Advanced Engineering and Development projects to include, but not limited to: availability, elasticity, scale, performance, security and control for private, public and/or hybrid system architectures.
Lead the evaluation and test of new technologies and provide implementation and design documentation. Use network design software like Visio and document procedures using tools such as Jira and Confluence.
Strong inquisitive nature and ability to work well with vendors and internal stakeholders to drive to solutions.
Work cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, Project Management, Content and Operations teams.
The candidate should have some software development process experience, but coding is not required.
Responsible for keeping abreast of standards and regulatory requirements which impact IP video delivery solutions.
Should have working knowledge with modern service delivery networks – HFC, IP Networking, DOCSIS, Transport, infrastructure monitoring solutions (ELK, Splunk, Nagios), Aspera based content distribution, storage solutions (EMC, HP, NetApp, Hitachi), virtualization solutions (VMware, Citrix), computing hardware (Cisco UCS), MPEG, VOD protocols like Cable Labs, ISA, DSM-CC, LSCP, RTSP etc.

Skills/Abilities and Knowledge
Ability to read, write and speak the English language to communicate with employees, customers, suppliers, in person, on the phone, and by written communications in a clear, straight-forward, and professional manner
Basic knowledge of related industry specifications and standards IEEE, ANSI, Fiber (Multimode, Single mode, UTP, etc, Bridging, Switching, Routing, Ethernet and Transport technologies and protocols
Knowledge in TCP/IP, OSI Model, network design, architecture, topology, protocols, switching, routing, security and load balancing.
Ability to perform duties in a very fast pace environment and ability to learn new technology quickly

Education
Masters or Bachelor''s Degree in Engineering or Computer Science or related field or related work experience

Related Work Experience Number of Years
Engineering work experience 10-15
Project management work experience 5-10


Client : Charter Communications

             

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