Principal Software Engineer
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Director of Media Services
Feld Entertainment
full-time
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Origin: • 🇺🇸 United States • Florida
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Lead
Tech Stack
AWSCloudTerraform
About the role
- Stakeholder & Portfolio Leadership - Engage Broadcast, Creative, Digital Marketing, Consumer Products, and Production to intake priorities, co-develop quarterly roadmaps, and align workflows and standards.
- Platform & Roadmap Ownership - Lead MAM strategy and phased cutover (6–12 months) from OTMM; run vendor RFI/RFP/bake-offs (e.g., IPV Curator, Viz One, Iconik); manage budgets and SOWs.
- Cloud Architecture & Delivery - Design AWS media architecture (S3 with lifecycle/replication, CloudFront with signed URLs/DRM, Lambda/Step Functions/EventBridge) for global scalability and performance.
- Metadata, Taxonomy & Rights - Define IPTC/XMP standards, controlled vocabularies, approval states, rights/embargo/expiry policies, and provenance.
- Security & Privacy - Implement SSO/SCIM, IAM least-privilege, KMS encryption, VPC endpoints; enable CloudTrail/GuardDuty/Macie; establish retention and privacy workflows (GDPR/CCPA).
- Live & Remote Ingest - Standardize SRT/Zixi/NDI/RIST ingest, growing files, timecode/SCTE markers, captions/transcripts; support venue and remote contribution.
- Editorial & Proxy Workflows - Deliver low-latency proxy editorial, check-in/out, and conform for Adobe/Avid/Resolve; enable rapid turnaround packages and highlights.
- Integrations & Automation - Integrate Adobe CC/Avid/Resolve panels, Workfront/Jira, Aspera/Signiant, downstream distribution; drive APIs/webhooks and IaC (Terraform/CloudFormation) for repeatable pipelines.
- Archive, Lifecycle & FinOps — Pilot/scale archive digitization; manage S3 tiering/replication, restore approaches, egress strategy, and cost management.
- Operations & Team Leadership - Establish operational readiness, monitoring/alerting, incident/change management, runbooks, and on-call for live events; hire, coach, and manage vendor performance.
Requirements
- Requires 8+ years in media operations
- 5+ years in cloud media architecture
- 2+ enterprise MAM deployments
- Deep AWS experience: S3 (versioning/lifecycle/replication), CloudFront, KMS/IAM, Lambda/Step Functions, MediaConvert; familiarity with MediaPackage/MediaConnect/MediaLive
- Proven delivery of live/broadcast ingest (SRT/Zixi/NDI/RIST), captions, timecode, and growing-file editorial
- Security/privacy background (SSO/SCIM, RBAC/ABAC, encryption, GDPR/CCPA retention)
- Vendor management (RFPs, bake-offs, SOWs) and budget ownership; strong cross-functional communication
- Adobe CC/Avid/Resolve integrations; Workfront/Jira; Aspera/Signiant; DRM (Widevine/FairPlay/PlayReady)
- Experience supporting international agencies/partners and regional content requirements
- Hands-on with one or more MAMs (IPV Curator, Viz One, Iconik, Dalet, etc.); experience replacing OTMM is a plus
- Live events, sports, or entertainment background preferred
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