Senior Video Engineer

The Role

The role

The successful candidate will work within a cross functional team(s) within our Video domain to deliver software that meets the needs of ITV's streaming business. The ideal candidate will be a smart, kind person with a keen enthusiasm for Video Streaming technology. They should be able to display the aptitude and experience appropriate for a senior level video engineer.

Main responsibilities

• Stay updated with the latest video streaming trends, emerging technologies, and best practices
• Be an exceptional leader who will help evolve video playback of our streaming platform
• Be great communicator who is able to articulate complex concepts to a wide variety of audiences with differing levels of technical understanding
• Be a highly effective collaborator, an effective listener, positive contributor and respectful of differing opinions
• Take ownership and accountability of projects and see them through to their conclusion
• High level of attention to detail to ensure high quality deliverables
• Ensuring work is suitably tested
• Ensuring work is suitably reviewed
• Helping to break down high level designs into manageable pieces of work
• Collaborating effectively
• Working towards a warm, welcoming, and inclusive team environment
• Sharing plans and working towards shared understanding
• Keeping your team accountable
• Discussing how your community works
• Helping shape community policy, e.g. testing policies, development practices, on-boarding approaches
• Helping with initiatives, e.g. the graduate programme
• Knowledge sharing
• Participating in office-hours support work
• Participating in out-of-hours support
• Thinking holistically about the software your community maintains

Skills you'll need (minimum criteria)

• Extensive experience as a Video Engineer, preferably with experience at a senior level
• In-depth knowledge of streaming protocols (HLS, MPEG-DASH, DVB-DASH) and adaptive streaming techniques
• A thorough knowledge of Packaging - both static and Just In Time
• Familiarity with Server-Side Ad Insertion (SSAI) and Client-side Ad Insertion (CSAI)
• Previous experiences of using VAST (Video Ad Serving Template) and beaconing
• Deep understanding of various DRM technologies PlayReady, Widevine and Fairplay and their associated different levels L1/3 SL2000/3000
• Understands the basics of video codecs (H.264, H.265, VP9, AV1)
• Good understanding of CDN configuration and can independently resolve issues
• General AWS experience (Lamba, EKS etc)

Other things we're looking for (key criteria)

• Continuous delivery / deployment principles and practices
• Unix command line and basic systems administration
• Experience of QoS monitoring tools
• Experience with data querying at scale to identify issues and performance, e.g. Athena, Splunk, Grafana.
• Experience of agile delivery and collaborative team working
• Understanding of monitoring and performance concerns
• Understanding and application of software design and architectural patterns