Junior Broadcast Engineer

Job Description

Job Description

Our Company

Gravity Media delivers an unparalleled range of media services and solutions to clients worldwide utilizing outside broadcast trucks, fly-packs, and studios spanning the United Kingdom, ROI, Europe, the Middle East, the United States and Australia offering market-leading broadcast, technology, production and post-production solutions across many of the world’s most-watched live events and entertainment programs.

A brief summary

Riot Games’ Remote Broadcast Center (RBC) Powered by AWS represents Riot Games’ innovate approach to creating a centralized global broadcast model through a circuit of strategically placed RBCs around the world. First launched under the codename “Project Stryker”, these RBCs work to provide increased capacity for Riot Games’ esports content and events while also ensuring top-tier quality and consistency across all of Riot Games’ esports productions.

We are looking for a Junior Broadcast Engineer to join our team to help shape and drive the operation and maintenance of the production layer and supporting technologies at Riot Games’ next-generation Remote Broadcast Center in the Greater Seattle Area. The Junior Broadcast Engineer role will report into our Senior Broadcast Engineer Lead and will help support live esport broadcasts, focusing on championships and tournaments from around the world.

What you’ll be responsible for

• Maintain a proactive approach to technical setup and monitoring of complex, medium to large scale live broadcasts.
• Comfortably problem-solving broadcast critical issues which require time sensitive resolutions.
• Act as first line support for technical issues which may arise through the course of a live broadcast.
• Assist in the maintenance and upgrades of facility wide systems.
• Possession of good judgment and ability to understand when an issue needs to be escalated and then correct escalation path.
• Maintain detailed technical documentation to be used by technical teams for a broad range of purposes including, SOPs, Technical Show set up requirements, Resource allocation management, system upgrades, and workflow documentation.
• Work with both technical and non-technical teams (Production, Graphics, Replay, IT, etc.) with the goal of issue resolution, always ensuring active communication.
• Excellent resource and time management, showing an ability to prioritize production related tasks based on urgency and perceived importance.

This role is for you if

Required Qualifications