Sr Engineer Job

Posting Job Title:Sr Engineer
Requisition #: 153832BR
Posting Location: Broomfield, CO, US
Area of Interest:Information Technology Services
Position Type: Full Time

Posting Job Description

Company:

Time Warner Cable is the second-largest cable operator in the U.S., with technologically advanced, well-clustered systems located mainly in five geographic areas - New York State (including New York City), the Carolinas, Ohio, southern California (including Los Angeles) and Texas. Time Warner Cable serves more than 14 million customers who subscribe to one or more of its video, high-speed data and voice services. Time Warner Cable Business Class offers a suite of phone, Internet, Ethernet and cable television services to businesses of all sizes. Time Warner Cable Media Sales, the advertising arm of Time Warner Cable, offers national, regional and local companies innovative advertising solutions that are targeted and affordable. More information about the services of Time Warner Cable is available at www.timewarnercable.com, www.twctv.com and www.twcmediasales.com.

The Opportunity:

In keeping with Time Warner Cable ' s mission to connect people and businesses with information, entertainment and each other in ways that are simple and easy, we are moving quickly towards providing our customers ' any content, any time, on any device, anywhere ' .

The Senior Engineer for our Content Operations Department will be responsible for providing operational support of Time Warner Cable ' s video acquisition, encoding, management, delivery and advertisement systems in support of traditional and IP based video delivery. This position offers the unique and highly visible opportunity to operate exciting and innovative new capabilities for Time Warner Cable.

Time Warner Cable - " bring you the future of amazing "

Essential Job Functions:

1. Perform ongoing testing, monitoring, design and complex problem resolution of the acquisition, encoding, storage, management, delivery, advertisement systems, and players associated with classic services and the next generation IP video delivery services

2. Document problem resolutions and communicate to internal and external customers

3. Perform software upgrades in a lab environment, test and document configuration changes and methods of operation.

4. Work with internal and external vendors and support organizations

5. Provide escalation support to customer support groups and if needed manage additional escalations internally and externally

Job Requirements:

Broad experience is preferred but extensive experience in several areas is acceptable

1. Strong team player with the ability to work individually when needed

2. Experience working with caching and streaming delivery platforms

3. Understanding of HTML, HTTP, HTTPS, and DNS

4. Understanding of video delivery and players associated with Apple HLS, Microsoft Smooth Streaming, and Adobe FMS

5. Experience with large scale storage platforms

6. Experience with content and video management systems and associated metadata

7. Knowledge of video capture, transport and encoding technologies including satellite capture, HD-SDI, MPEG2, MPEG4, MPEG2 Transport Streams, JPEG, and PIFF containers

8. Experience with hardware and software used for doing adaptive HTTP video encoding from vendors like Digital Rapids, Cisco, Elemental, Harmonic, RGB, Microsoft, Adobe, or others

9. Experience with Advanced Advertising specifications SCTE-30/35, SCTE-130, ESAM, ESNI, VAST, VMAP

10.Familiarity with content encryption and modern DRM systems

11.Experience supporting data networks including Sonet/SDH transport, Ethernet, MPLS, and interior and exterior IP routing protocols

12.Understanding of firewalls and proxy servers

13.Experience with multiple operating systems including variants of Windows, Unix, and Linux.

14.Experience with C#, Silverlight, JavaScript, Ruby, Python, HTML/CSS, and shell scripting

15.Excellent verbal and written customer support skills

16.Strong analytic problem solving and troubleshooting skills

17.Flexibility to work extra hours and holidays if needed

18.Availability to be contacted after hours including weekends and holidays via a pager or cell phone

19.Experience conducting network performance reviews, trend analysis, and chronic issue identification

20.Ability to manage changing priorities and pressure levels

Preferred Qualifications:

The ideal candidate will have 4+ years supporting Classic QAM based distribution systems, Content Delivery Networks, IP based video acquisition and encoding for over-the-top video delivery, large scale data storage platforms, content and video management systems, Internet video players, Unix/Linux systems, large scale IP networks or a combination of these areas.

Education and Experience:

Bachelor ' s degree (B.A. or B.S.) from four-year college or university; or equivalent training, education and experience.

Supervisory/Managerial Responsibilities:

Lead: Assigns, trains, schedules or oversees work of others.

Travel Requirements:

Travel 10 %

We are proud to offer a robust benefits package including medical, dental, vision, pension, a matched 401(k) plan, tuition reimbursement, and discounted services for employees who reside in a Time Warner Cable service area. Qualified candidates should apply online at www.timewarnercable.com.

FCC Unit_TWC: HQ452
Controlling Establishment ID: 00332 - Broomfield Airport Way

More on TWC:
Time Warner Cable reaffirms its commitment to providing equal opportunities for employment and advancement to qualified employees and applicants. Individuals will be considered for positions for which they meet the minimum qualifications and are able to perform without regard to race, color, gender, age, religion, disability, national origin, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, current unemployment status, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local laws.

Time Warner Cable is an Equal Opportunity Employer - Minority/Female/Disability/Veteran/Current Unemployment Status