Job Description
Senior Travel Broadcast Engineer role at Riot Games requires leading broadcast engineers and driving production layer and supporting technologies for esports broadcasts worldwide.
Riot Games is doubling down on its investment in esports and fan experience with industry-leading innovations like Project Stryker. As a Senior Travel Broadcast Engineer, you will help lead our broadcast engineers and drive the planning, execution, and maintenance of the production layer and supporting technologies that power Riot's esports broadcasts around the world.
This role requires international travel, up to 40% per year, to support global events working inside and outside the European Union. You will occasionally be required to lift 50 lbs and push/pull road cases.
Responsibilities:
- Lead teams supporting production and technical infrastructures at global events, including production equipment, network management tools, communications systems, graphics, video systems, processing, and transcoding.
- Experience and level of comfort supporting teams tasked with solving complex and diverse problems that require evaluating multiple variables.
- Maintain control, efficiency, and visibility over broadcast technology used to support global events, including its maintenance before and after use.
- Serve as a point of escalation for the on-site Field Ops team to analyze, troubleshoot, and solve technical problems.
- Design and iterate on premise and cloud resources.
- Coordinate production activities with other technical teams.
- Work with Esports engineering and IT teams to create better in-house systems for event support and management of shows, including monitoring streams and enhancing quality of service metrics.
- Support long-term planning, equipment preparation, and remote support of other live events and road shows.
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor's or Technical degree in an applicable field.
- Five years' experience working in a video ecosystem, with strong fundamentals in live video content production workflows and related production technologies.
- 6+ years experience in an IC, supervisory, or management role.
- Proven experience working in a dynamic environment that requires a steady volume of high-level details, the challenge of identifying and tracking critical paths, complex dependencies, and executing deliverables successfully.
- Deep understanding of SMPTE standards, various video processing codecs, and formats.
- Experience working with video and audio infrastructure - SDI, SMPTE 2110, Dante, NDI.
- Knowledge of media processing and quality control tools.
- Ability to work on productivity software (Google, Word, Excel).
- Valid driver's license, passport, and ability to travel internationally.
Desired Qualifications:
- Certifications from Cisco or AWS.
- Experience in a live event production operation, preferably sports, within a broadcast team environment, working under strict time deadlines.
- Ability to implement and sustain orchestrated automated workflows.
- Deep understanding of streaming and OTT technologies, protocols, and practices, monitoring, and compliance preferred.
- Knowledge to manage enterprise switches and routers.
- Knowledge and/or experience of metadata concepts and feed formats (XML, JSON).
Riot Games fosters a player and workplace experience that values teamwork embodied by the Summoner's Code and Community Code. Our culture embraces differences as a strength, and our values are the guiding principles for how we approach work. We are committed to putting diversity and inclusion at the center of everything we do and promoting a fair and collaborative culture where Rioters treat one another with dignity and respect.
We offer medical and dental plans that cover you, your spouse/domestic partner, and children. Life insurance, parental leave, plus short-term and long-term disability coverage are also available. Riot will support your retirement benefits with a company match, and double down on your donations of time and money to non-profit charitable organizations. Balance between work and personal life is encouraged with open paid time off, and flexible benefits fund.