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Welcome to Warner Bros. Discovery… the stuff dreams are made of.
Who We Are…
When we say, “the stuff dreams are made of,” we’re not just referring to the world of wizards, dragons and superheroes, or even to the wonders of Planet Earth. Behind WBD’s vast portfolio of iconic content and beloved brands, are the storytellers bringing our characters to life, the creators bringing them to your living rooms and the dreamers creating what’s next…
From brilliant creatives, to technology trailblazers, across the globe, WBD offers career defining opportunities, thoughtfully curated benefits, and the tools to explore and grow into your best selves. Here you are supported, here you are celebrated, here you can thrive.
Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) Sports Europe represents WBD’s portfolio of sports brands, channels, and platforms in Europe. It collectively engages 130 million people every month, reaching fans and broad audiences in more than 200 markets and in 20 languages across all platforms where consumers are spending time: free-to-air TV, pay-TV, streaming, online and social. WBD Sports Europe includes the much-loved consumer brands Eurosport and TNT Sports in the UK and Ireland, as well sports programming and content on WBD’s free-to-air TV networks and streaming on HBO Max. They connect audiences with the greatest sporting events in the world. This includes being the Home of the Olympics Games in Europe; tennis’ Grand Slams; cycling’s Grand Tours, more than 1,000 live cycling broadcasts per year, the WHOOP UCI Mountain Bike World Series; the PGA TOUR year-round in some markets; the FIM Endurance World Championship; The Ocean Race; the FIM Speedway GP and every major winter sports World Championship and World Cup event.
Your new role...
As Warner Bros. Discovery Inc’s portfolio continues to grow – around the world and across platforms – the Global Technology & Operations team is building media technology and IT systems that meet the world class standard for which Discovery is known. GT&O builds, implements and maintains the business systems and technology that are critical for delivering Warner Bros. Discovery’s products, while articulating the long-term technology strategy that will enable Warner Bros. Discovery’s growing pay-tv, digital terrestrial, free-to-air and online services to reach more audiences on more platforms.
From Amsterdam to Singapore and from satellite and broadcast operations to SAP, we are driving Discovery forward on the leading edge of technology.
You will mainly be involved on WBD Sports. The channels moved in a technology transformation for all his equipment home of all countries in Europe based on a hybrid architecture on premise and cloud.
London and Paris team manage the engineering and support of this new group surrounded by two playout center and all the markets in Europe from Eurosport.
If you’re not afraid by the new technologies and you want to be part of a dynamic and international team, join us in the heart of the channel sport broadcast in 22 languages.
Your role accountabilities...
As part of the M2P Engineering team, this role provides Tier 2 support and engineering expertise for MAM and post-production platforms within a virtualized hybrid on-premises and cloud environment.
Support:
Tier 2 support
Manage tickets escalated from Level 0 and Level 1 support teams
Coordinate incident and problem follow-up with internal and external teams
Follow up update on platform day to day with the support Tier 1
Plan maintenance activities
Upgrade phases and reboot action coordination
Monitor and maintain the overall health and performance of the platform
Engineering:
Manage short-term engineering project
Collaborate with tier3 engineering team
Gather workflow requirements from WBD Sports, TNT Sports and Eurosport offices
Produce workflow, project and engineering documentation
Design centralized workflows across MAM and Post-Production platforms
Support users through change management and new projects implementation
Qualifications & Experiences..
Degree in Technology, Engineering, Broadcast, or a related field
Fluent written and spoken English
French language skills are desirable
Strong communication skills
Adaptability to work in a fast-paced and continuously changing environment
Ability to perform effectively under pressure, particularly when supporting production teams during live events
Self-motivated and collaborative team player with a strong commitment to delivering high-quality customer service
Excellent troubleshooting, analytical and problem-solving skills
Minimum of 3 years of experience in Broadcast Technology in a support or engineering role
Experience in Sports, News, Production and Documentary environments
Experience with MAM and Post-Production tools
Extensive Broadcast technical background (IP video 2110, AES 67, NMOS, video and audio formats and codec…)
Good understanding of IT technologies and the associated challenge (network, virtualization, storage, cloud services, security…)
Monitor emerging technologies and industry trends to ensure systems remain efficient, scalable, and aligned with business growth
Nice to have
Basic scripting and development skills
Knowledge of AWS services
Knowledge of microservices architecture
General
Work on shift (evening and weekend)
Night work may be required depending on live events
On-call rotation
Based in London, UK
Minimal travel expected
Permanent contract
Hybrid Working - This role is advertised as a Hybrid work model, that combines remote and in-office work, following our current company policy and to be agreed with your Line Manager. Subject to any applicable laws, WBD / your Line Manager reserves the right to change this working agreement where this is essential to business needs and upon reasonable notice to you.
How We Get Things Done…
This last bit is probably the most important! Here at WBD, our guiding principles are the core values by which we operate and are central to how we get things done. You can find them at www.wbd.com/guiding-principles/ along with some insights from the team on what they mean and how they show up in their day to day. We hope they resonate with you and look forward to discussing them during your interview.
Championing Inclusion at WBD
Warner Bros. Discovery embraces the opportunity to build a workforce that reflects a wide array of perspectives, backgrounds and experiences. Being an equal opportunity employer means that we take seriously our responsibility to consider qualified candidates on the basis of merit, regardless of sex, gender identity, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marital status, pregnancy, parenthood, disability or any other category protected by law.
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