Job Summary:It’s the magic of immersing yourself in a motion picture masterpiece, or a new track from your favorite band, or the spectacle of a live Broadway show. It’s hard to define and even harder to create, but that’s what we do at The Walt Disney Studios. Ours is a culture of innovation, collaboration and creativity. We raise the bar, then step over it, blazing trails through the production and distribution of world-class entertainment around the globe. If you want to help tell compelling, enduring stories through movies, music or stage plays, then we want to hear from you.
The Walt Disney Studios encompasses the creation, production, promotion, sales, acquisition and domestic and international distribution of live-action and animated motion pictures, home entertainment releases, live stage plays, and music and soundtrack recordings. From movie concept to film production, and global premieres to direct to consumer mobile applications, Studio Technology innovates and delivers solutions that support a studio whose content is legendary and transcends generations. As part of the Studio’s Technology team you’ll be joining a group of passionate, dedicated technologists solving a range of interesting problems in innovative ways in an exciting and dynamic industry. We are looking for high-performing, motivated individuals who are generalists and proficient in many technologies and languages. Our team embraces disruptive thinkers who can drive innovation.
The DMC Engineering team is part of Studio Technology that supports The Walt Disney Studio. The position will support all of media mastering and servicing activities supported by Disney Studio Operations. This is a high-level frontline, tier-0, support. Will design, deploy, and support systems for Digital Media Center suites. Collaborate with teams in Studio Technology to ensure request and actives are fulfilled in a timely manner. Be a technical liaison with Production and 3rd party vendors.
This position is covered under a collective bargaining agreement- IATSE Local 700
Responsibilities:

• High-level technical support for all post-production edit suites.
• Support media systems (e.g. Clipsters, Transkoder, Adobe CC, Apple Final Cut Pro, Nuke, Maya, Baton QC, Vantage).
• Develop and support file-based workflows for Mastering, QC, and Digital Distribution.
• Create and publish team SOPs.
• Maintain equipment inventory and spares.
• Setup/support executive reviews - local and remote - monitor calibration, SDI and KVM routing, video over IP, Clearview Flex.

Basic Qualifications:

• Expert knowledge of operating system administration (e.g. Windows/XP and Macintosh OS).
• Experience with digital video signal chain, distribution systems and components.
• Knowledge in video/audio engineering; signal flow, color science, common video and audio codecs/formats.
• Expertise in Mastering and Digital Distribution workflows.
• Expertise in digital video signal chain (e.g. HD/SDI, DA’s, video converters and extenders, AES, and analog audio).
• General knowledge of IP networking infrastructure.
• General knowledge of monitor and display technologies (i.e. LCD, OLED, 2D/3D, etc.).
• Ability to provide Project Planning; subtasks, bill-of-materials, time/labor, able to re-prioritize when needed.
• Understanding and ability to use Script-based tools (e.g. bash, perl, Python, etc.).
• Knowledge of storage (e.g. SAN, NFS, SMB, AFP, DFS, NTFS).
• General knowledge of data transport tools (e.g. Signiant, Faspex, Aspera).
• Knowledge in configuring and supporting distributed KVM systems

Preferred Qualifications:

• Strong communication, analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Experience at a post-production facility with front-end user support, for live-action, visual effects, or animation.
• Ability to multitask in a highly complex, diverse post production environment
• Ability to quickly prioritize decisions given, oftentimes with incomplete and conflicting knowledge
• Motivated and highly self-directed; manage and (re)prioritize the multiple concurrent and competing challenges.
• Ability to assist in prioritization & communication across a talented team of Y-4 Engineers.
• Experience in creation & updating of technical line drawings and supported documentation used across Studio Technology engineering teams.
• Experience calibrating display systems.
• Understanding of contemporary and emerging sound technologies (e.g. Dolby Digital, Dolby Atmos, DTS-X).
• Experience with setting up remote review transport stream multiplexing/switching session over IP.

Additional Information:

• This position is covered under a collective bargaining agreement- IATSE Local 700