SENIOR SPECIALIST - EMERGING TECHNOLOGY ENGINEER

We’re part of Europe’s leading entertainment company with over 23 million customers across seven countries, we make life more fun by entertaining and connecting people. It’s a genuine team effort. That’s why we want talented people, like you, to join us and help make the future happen. This is an excellent opportunity to join our Emerging Technologies team as a Senior Emerging Technology Engineer specialising in one or more of the following areas: Video & Audio compression optimisation Picture quality assessment Format Conversion Stream Processing Content Protection Cloud Hosting of Media Applications Contribution & Distribution of IP based Media You will get to work on state-of-the-art technology to deliver solutions that delight our millions of customers – from the latest movies to our award-winning sports programming – you can make it happen. We’re committed to training and developing you to get you where you want to be. Sky Q / Sky Glass, Mobile & Broadband at discounted staff rates. A generous pension and private health care. Access to over 12,000 LinkedIn Learning courses & on the job training in Cloud Hosting, Compression, IP Networks, Media Workflows & Applications to support your development. And if that’s not enough, our award-winning Osterley campus boasts six subsidised restaurants, a cinema, gym, and much more. The Job As a member of the Emerging Technologies team within Content Technology & Innovation, you will be involved in the design, development, and delivery of systems at the forefront of content processing and distribution across all Sky’s platforms. Take responsibility for the design and definition of comprehensive systems, ensuring these can support the provision of service to required and agreed levels Identify opportunities for optimising the set-up and configuration of systems to improve the level of service provided to the business Oversee the transition to Cloud Hosted Infrastructure Perform compression, transcoding & format conversion investigations Provide advice and support to other internal groups to recommend appropriate technology, standards, and practice for the implementation of systems solutions Define, recommend, maintain, and ensure adherence to technical standards for the systems, and provide technical systems consultancy to projects Undertake research and development activities to determine how emerging technologies can be used to support business objectives Build effective communication across all business areas within Sky and to ensure knowledge and experience are shared for mutual benefit Investigate, implement, and oversee algorithm research and potential technology adoption for media carriage and processing Write engineering white papers, prepare, and conduct technical demonstrations, deliver presentations Champion, promote and present development programs to stakeholders. The Skills You are an inquisitive, motivated, and reliable person who is willing to learn and apply new knowledge on a constant basis. You care about attention to detail, have creative, problem-solving skills and an ability to think outside of the box. You will have excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to present your ideas to technical and non-technical colleagues. Systems Design Experience in designing media systems for Broadcast or OTT involving compression components Understanding of designing systems for high availability Knowledge of key components in content preparation supply chain for Linear, VOD and Content Streaming Video Compression Understanding of MPEG-TS carriage of video codecs, buffer models, PCR/PTS, bitrate Understanding of DVB standards governing Sky broadcast platform Demonstrable experience working with H.264 and MPEG-2 Awareness of industry trends in MPEG (VVC, EVC etc) and other compression schemes like JPEG-XS, JPEG2000 and AV1 Understanding of traditional rate control methods (CBR, VBR, CRF) and compression technology / standard trends, like content aware encoding. Practical experience troubleshooting compression issues is beneficial Experience in running objective video quality assessments is beneficial MPEG-DASH and HLS experience is desirable Practical compression products experience Open-source tools such as FFMpeg, x264, x265 is desirable Commercial products experience is preferred, e.g. AWS Elemental, Harmonic, MediaKind, Synamedia, NTT Data, Ateme, AppearTV, etc Cloud technologies Either a practical experience or the ability to build solutions using at least one cloud services provider is highly desirable, but can be compensated by matching on-premises infrastructure experience Knowledge and experience of serverless compute Linux command line utilities IP Networking fundamentals on a level of Cisco ICND1 Data analysis Descriptive statistics Data engineering tools (e.g. Python, R, MATLAB, Excel, etc) Data visualisation skills, ability to create a simple and visual narrative to explain complex issues and implications Ability to write in Python is desirable Communication Experience of demonstrations to senior executives Excellent writing skills (architecture and design documentation, interface specifications, white papers, reports and presentations) Influencing stakeholders Education Education to a numerate degree level or highly relevant compensating work experience Are you ready to work in a dynamic environment alongside talented people who take pride in delivering awesome results? Apply today. We’re happy to talk flexible working. It’s our people that make us Europe’s leading entertainment company. That’s why we work hard to be an inclusive employer, so everyone at Sky can be their best. We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. Believe in better. #J-18808-Ljbffr