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Every great story has a new beginning, and yours starts here.

Welcome to *** Discovery... the stuff dreams are made of.

Who We Are...

When we say, "the stuff dreams are made of," we're not just referring to the world of wizards, dragons and superheroes, or even to the wonders of Planet Earth. Behind WBD's vast portfolio of iconic content and beloved brands, are the storytellers bringing our characters to life, the creators bringing them to your living rooms and the dreamers creating what's next...

From brilliant creatives, to technology trailblazers, across the globe, WBD offers career defining opportunities, thoughtfully curated benefits, and the tools to explore and grow into your best selves. Here you are supported, here you are celebrated, here you can thrive.

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How We Get Things Done...

This last bit is probably the most important! Here at WBD, our guiding principles are the core values by which we operate and are central to how we get things done. You can find them at www.wbd.com/guiding-principles/ along with some insights from the team on what they mean and how they show up in their day to day. We hope they resonate with you and look forward to discussing them during your interview.

The Legal Bits...
In compliance with local law, we are disclosing the compensation, or a range thereof, for roles in locations where legally required. Actual salaries will vary based on several factors, including but not limited to external market data, internal equity, location, skill set, experience, and/or performance. Base pay is just one component of *** Discovery's total compensation package for employees. Pay Range: $98,910.00 - $183,690.00 salary per year. Other rewards may include annual bonuses, short- and long-term incentives, and program-specific awards. In addition, *** Discovery provides a variety of benefits to employees, including health insurance coverage, an employee wellness program, life and disability insurance, a retirement savings plan, paid holidays and sick time and vacation.

*** Discovery embraces the opportunity to build a workforce that reflects the diversity of our society and the world around us. Being an equal opportunity employer means that we take seriously our responsibility to consider qualified candidates on the basis of merit, without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, mental or physical disability, and genetic information, marital status, citizenship status, military status, protected veteran status or any other category protected by law.

If you're a qualified candidate and you require adjustments or accommodations to search for a job opening or apply for a position, please contact us at [Please reply using Staff Me Up].

Every great story has a new beginning, and yours starts here.

Welcome to *** Discovery... the stuff dreams are made of.

Who We Are...

When we say, "the stuff dreams are made of," we're not just referring to the world of wizards, dragons and superheroes, or even to the wonders of Planet Earth. Behind WBD's vast portfolio of iconic content and beloved brands, are the storytellers bringing our characters to life, the creators bringing them to your living rooms and the dreamers creating what's next...

From brilliant creatives, to technology trailblazers, across the globe, WBD offers career defining opportunities, thoughtfully curated benefits, and the tools to explore and grow into your best selves. Here you are supported, here you are celebrated, here you can thrive.

Position Summary:

The Production Technology Design & Integration team is a group of Engineers and Project Managers responsible for, but not limited to, the design, planning, purchasing and configuration of production equipment and systems in *** Discovery's Production and Broadcast facilities. The Manager- Production Technology Design & Integration position is intended to oversee this team in daily tasks, manage the team in their assignments and to provide guidance and direction and reporting on new *** project initiatives in the advancement of WBD's *** and production infrastructure.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide direct technical and managerial oversight to lead an expanding project management and engineering team.
• Provide Traditional *** Project Management Including Facility Infrastructure Change Management
• Build, Test and Workflow Creation of Cloud-Based *** Systems (Transcode, Edit, Rendering, Delivery)
• *** Systems Purchasing and Budget Management
• Capital budget Planning and tracking.
• Assist the team in the design and planning of new and upgraded production systems at WBD, including facility changes, equipment purchases, budget tracking and scheduling.
• Create and/ or maintain templates for managing projects such as Master Equipment Lists (MELs), project scope documents and project schedule tracking.
• Write and maintain engineering SOP's pertaining to the operations and maintenance of broadcast and production systems including but not limited to plant routing systems, sync and reference systems, distribution and standards conversion hardware, fiber and satellite transmit/receive systems, VOD production systems, and other production related equipment.
• Create, keep and maintain current technical documentation of facility, including CAD drawings, SOP's and User manuals. Also, to include templates for managing projects such as Master Equipment Lists (MELs), project scope documents and project schedule tracking.
• Assist team in tracking incoming equipment against purchase orders to confirm receipt and correctness.
• Evaluate new technology and make recommendations regarding equipment selection, software selection and testing with the Operations Department.
• Assist in the resolution of support requests and in performing infrastructure maintenance.
• Assist with setting up demos and training for new or potential equipment and software.
• Interface with vendors and clients and internal management teams.
• Provide support to production staff as needed.
• Ability to share knowledge and maintain relationships with other technical teams and facilities.
• The ability to use monitoring tools (Ser *** Now, Asset DB entry, Solarwinds, Splunk, SNMP, Ivanti Heat) working knowledge of NDIs and support ticket data entry and tracking.
• Provide status updates, reports, and presentation to executive team for individual task and projects.
• Other job duties, responsibilities, and project assignments as assigned.

Requirements:

• Ability to manage technical personnel, provide technical and personal guidance and manage communications *** ween engineering groups, operations groups and management.
• College Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science or Television Production preferred but not required. Or equivalent professional experience required.
• 5+ Years Broadcast Project Engineering, Broadcast/ Production system design, or Broadcast/ Production Project management.
• Experience with a majority of the following: AutoCad 2018 or above, Microsoft Windows and Office, Microsoft Sharepoint, Lucid Charts or Microsoft Visio, non-linear editing applications (Avid, Adobe, DaVinci Resolve), *** management systems, and new *** encoding systems.
• understanding or managing of a ticketing system such as Ser *** Now
• Thorough understanding of SD, HD, and UHD digital Video standards, as well as Digital Audio standards.
• Thorough understanding of Digital video encoding and decoding transport streams such as SRT, NDI, J2K and other streaming & compression protocols and standards.
• Understanding of Software Defined Video Networking and ST-2110 routing.
• Understanding of Cloud-based technologies and platforms such as AWS and AZURE.
• Organization and attention to detail.
• Ability to follow through on support and project requests in a timely manner, escalating to other members of the team when appropriate.
• Ability to prioritize and address multiple tasks and projects in a dynamic work environment.
• Ability to perform well in a high-pressure environment.
• Ability to work independently and with other members of a team.
• Proven oral and written communication skills.
• Ability to create, read, and decipher system schematic drawings.
• Ability to lift heavy equipment as needed (50 lbs.).
• Must have the legal right to work in the United States

How We Get Things Done...

This last bit is probably the most important! Here at WBD, our guiding principles are the core values by which we operate and are central to how we get things done. You can find them at www.wbd.com/guiding-principles/ along with some insights from the team on what they mean and how they show up in their day to day. We hope they resonate with you and look forward to discussing them during your interview.

The Legal Bits...
In compliance with local law, we are disclosing the compensation, or a range thereof, for roles in locations where legally required. Actual salaries will vary based on several factors, including but not limited to external market data, internal equity, location, skill set, experience, and/or performance. Base pay is just one component of *** Discovery's total compensation package for employees. Pay Range: $98,910.00 - $183,690.00 salary per year. Other rewards may include annual bonuses, short- and long-term incentives, and program-specific awards. In addition, *** Discovery provides a variety of benefits to employees, including health insurance coverage, an employee wellness program, life and disability insurance, a retirement savings plan, paid holidays and sick time and vacation.

*** Discovery embraces the opportunity to build a workforce that reflects the diversity of our society and the world around us. Being an equal opportunity employer means that we take seriously our responsibility to consider qualified candidates on the basis of merit, without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, mental or physical disability, and genetic information, marital status, citizenship status, military status, protected veteran status or any other category protected by law.

If you're a qualified candidate and you require adjustments or accommodations to search for a job opening or apply for a position, please contact us at [Please reply using Staff Me Up].

Every great story has a new beginning, and yours starts here.

Welcome to *** Discovery... the stuff dreams are made of.

Who We Are...

When we say, "the stuff dreams are made of," we're not just referring to the world of wizards, dragons and superheroes, or even to the wonders of Planet Earth. Behind WBD's vast portfolio of iconic content and beloved brands, are the storytellers bringing our characters to life, the creators bringing them to your living rooms and the dreamers creating what's next...

From brilliant creatives, to technology trailblazers, across the globe, WBD offers career defining opportunities, thoughtfully curated benefits, and the tools to explore and grow into your best selves. Here you are supported, here you are celebrated, here you can thrive.

Your New Job:

Automation & Reliability Engineering (ARE) combines software and systems engineering to build and run large-scale, distributed, fault-tolerant systems. ARE ensures that Discovery's services-both our internally critical and our externally-visible systems-have reliability, uptime appropriate to user's needs and a fast rate of improvement. Additionally, OEs will keep a watchful eye on our systems capacity and performance. Much of our engineering focuses on optimizing existing systems, building infrastructure and eliminating work through automation. An OE is a practitioner and advocate of good monitoring practices and configuration management within GT&O, and so should be a great communicator and enthusiastic champion of Technology Operations. The core purpose of the role is to ensure that our applications, platforms, and infrastructure are effectively monitored for availability, performance, and functionality, and that alerts driven by our monitoring systems are accurate and actionable.

On the ARE team, you'll have the opportunity to manage the complex challenges of scale which are unique to Discovery, while using your expertise in observability, monitoring, and system design.

Your Role Accountabilities:

• Design, roadmap, and administers tools used in discovering and monitoring Discovery's applications, services, platforms, and infrastructure.
  
• Build monitoring systems that assist in infrastructure and application event detection and alert re *** tion.
  
• Ensure all relevant infrastructure and services are properly covered within our monitoring and alerting systems in a manner consistent with our standards; collect the right metrics at the right frequency and ensure the data is readily available for effective alerting, reporting, and analysis
  
• Define business and operations success metrics, establish a departmental process model for benchmarking, standardization, and process improvements.
  
• Collaborate with a cross-functional team of Dev, Ops, Engineers, and architects to understand complex application architectures to implement an effective top-down monitoring strategy of holistic ser *** visibility.
  
• Participate in strategy and future implementation discussions for the redesign and implementation of monitoring environments to modernize with latest technology trends.
  
• Leveraging performance counters to diagnose and troubleshoot infrastructure problems.
  
• Create/maintain documentation for monitoring requirements, processes, and implementation.
  
• Assist in the deployment, organization, and management of standard operating procedures.
  
• Perform other duties as needed.
  

Qualifications & Experiences:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
  
• 5+ years of experience in systems engineering and/or administration in an enterprise production environment.
  
• Experience installing, configuring, and maintaining monitoring tools with SolarWinds
  
• Experience with large-scale distributed systems and architecture knowledge (Linux/UNIX and Windows operating systems, networking, storage) in a cloud computing or traditional IT infrastructure environment.
  
• Experience in the use of network management protocols (e.g. SNMP, WMI, Syslog, ICMP, NetFlow, etc.).
  
• Experience managing a SolarWinds environment including main application server, additional polling engines, additional web servers, and database required.
  
• Experience working with SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor, Network Traffic Analyzer, Network Configuration Monitor, Server & Application Monitor, Storage Resource Monitor, Web Performance Monitor, and das *** ards required.
  
• Experience with scripting and automation using one or more of the following: Python, PowerShell, BASH.
  
• Experience with configuration management and Infrastructure as Code tools such as: Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, or Chef.
  

*This is a hybrid position, in which reporting onsite 2-3 times per week is required.

How We Get Things Done...

This last bit is probably the most important! Here at WBD, our guiding principles are the core values by which we operate and are central to how we get things done. You can find them at www.wbd.com/guiding-principles/ along with some insights from the team on what they mean and how they show up in their day to day. We hope they resonate with you and look forward to discussing them during your interview.

The Legal Bits...

*** Discovery embraces the opportunity to build a workforce that reflects the diversity of our society and the world around us. Being an equal opportunity employer means that we take seriously our responsibility to consider qualified candidates on the basis of merit, without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, mental or physical disability, and genetic information, marital status, citizenship status, military status, protected veteran status or any other category protected by law.

If you're a qualified candidate with a disability and you need a reasonable accommodation in order to apply for this position, please contact us at [Please reply using Staff Me Up].

Every great story has a new beginning, and yours starts here.

Welcome to *** Discovery... the stuff dreams are made of.

Who We Are...

When we say, "the stuff dreams are made of," we're not just referring to the world of wizards, dragons and superheroes, or even to the wonders of Planet Earth. Behind WBD's vast portfolio of iconic content and beloved brands, are the storytellers bringing our characters to life, the creators bringing them to your living rooms and the dreamers creating what's next...

From brilliant creatives, to technology trailblazers, across the globe, WBD offers career defining opportunities, thoughtfully curated benefits, and the tools to explore and grow into your best selves. Here you are supported, here you are celebrated, here you can thrive.

Affiliate Support Specialist

Our Team
The US Affiliate Team is responsible for distributing WBD's entire US network portfolio, including Discovery Channel, *** , *** , *** , *** , HGTV, TLC, and Food Network. The group is also responsible for partner relationships in Canada and works with global teams as necessary.

The Role
Selected candidate will have primary responsibility for supporting the Operations, Distribution and Marketing teams in maintaining accurate customer lifecycle data, providing affiliate technical support, and fulfilling standard and ad hoc data requests.

Responsibilities:

1. Process new launches and signal authorization. This includes but is not limited to working with customers and internal teams to verify and input accurate information for new and existing affiliate network services.
2. Generate analytical reports from internal and external data sources including SNL Kagan. Deliverables include but are not limited to sales reports, subscriber market distribution analysis and signal distribution.
3. Complete month end close tasks by due date with a high level of accuracy, to support reconciliation of subscriber launch, billing and signal data.
4. Research and complete affiliate change requests from Sales Compliance related to acquisition and divestiture, ser *** levels, launch data, etc.
5. Special projects - support special projects such as network satellite realignments.
6. Manage group email account and handle affiliate calls and technical inquiries daily.
7. Maintain data integrity by identifying and correcting customer information discrepancies.

Requirements:

* This person must have the savvy, drive, energy and commitment to drive new revenue

* Strong analytical, written and verbal skills are required.
* 2 + years professional experience with data analysis required.
* Candidate must be articulate, extremely detail-oriented, strong organizational skills, and have the ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously under tight deadlines.
* Strong interpersonal, communication and customer ser *** skills required.
* Proficient in Excel required - formulas, pivot tables, etc.
* Must possess a high level of self-motivation, commitment, and resourcefulness.
* Bachelor's Degree in a related field or equivalent work experience.
* Previous experience with reporting tool desirable (e.g. Microstrategy BI, Power BI, etc).
* Cable industry experience a plus but not required
* Must have the legal right to work in the United States.

How We Get Things Done...

This last bit is probably the most important! Here at WBD, our guiding principles are the core values by which we operate and are central to how we get things done. You can find them at www.wbd.com/guiding-principles/ along with some insights from the team on what they mean and how they show up in their day to day. We hope they resonate with you and look forward to discussing them during your interview.

The Legal Bits...

*** Discovery embraces the opportunity to build a workforce that reflects the diversity of our society and the world around us. Being an equal opportunity employer means that we take seriously our responsibility to consider qualified candidates on the basis of merit, without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, mental or physical disability, and genetic information, marital status, citizenship status, military status, protected veteran status or any other category protected by law.

If you're a qualified candidate with a disability and you need a reasonable accommodation in order to apply for this position, please contact us at [Please reply using Staff Me Up].