Media Networking Engineer

Media Networking Engineer for Culver City, CA for a 12-month Contract with possible extensions.

Base pay range: $61.00/hr - $71.00/hr

NOTE: If selected for this position, you are required to perform ALL work onsite, based on the client’s specified hybrid work schedule (currently onsite 3 days a week: Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday).

• Relationship Management: Build and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders across Media teams, GNS, and Security, fostering a collaborative and trust‑based environment.
• Workflow Analysis & Optimization:
  Collaborate with media production teams to document their specific network requirements, pain points, and desired outcomes. Translate these requirements into clear and actionable recommendations for Networking team implementation.
• Solution Design & Architecture: Assist in the architectural design of end‑to‑end networking solutions for M&E workflows, ensuring scalability, reliability, and security. Solutions should be designed to support a variety of media formats and workflows, including baseband video, compressed video, and audio over IP.
• Networking Team Collaboration & Advocacy: Act as a key liaison between Media teams and GNS, building strong working relationships to champion the unique networking requirements of media teams and ensure that their needs are met. This includes effectively communicating documented requirements, proactively resolving conflicts, and fostering a spirit of partnership.
• Solution Implementation & Oversight: Oversee the implementation of network solutions, working with our networking team and other teams as needed. This includes diagnosing and resolving performance issues such as latency, jitter, and packet loss. This may involve some direct, on‑site support to diagnose and resolve critical issues.
• Security Compliance & Hardening: Ensure that all network solutions comply with our security policies and best practices. Implement security controls to protect sensitive media assets.
• Troubleshooting & Triage: Provide expert‑level troubleshooting and triage for network‑related issues affecting media workflows. This may involve some direct, on‑site support to diagnose and resolve critical issues.
• Documentation & Training: Develop and maintain clear and concise documentation of network configurations and procedures. Provide training to media teams on best practices for network usage and security.
• Vendor Management: Work with vendors of media‑specific hardware and software to ensure compatibility with our network infrastructure.
• Proactive Monitoring & Tuning: Identify opportunities to implement proactive monitoring and alerting systems to identify and resolve network issues before they impact media workflows. Continuously tune network configurations to optimize performance.
• Automation & Orchestration: Identify opportunities to automate network configuration and management tasks to improve efficiency and reduce manual effort.

• 8+ years of experience in network engineering, with a focus on supporting media and entertainment workflows.
• Experience with in a media/entertainment company.
• Deep understanding of networking protocols (TCP/IP, UDP, DNS, DHCP, etc.), routing principles (OSPF, BGP), and Layer 2/Layer 3 networking concepts (VLANs, QinQ, MLAG, LACP).
• Experience with network security technologies (firewalls, intrusion detection systems, VPNs), preference for experience with Palo Alto Networks firewalls.
• Strong knowledge of media protocols (SRT, RIST, NDI, Dante, AVB) and SMPTE ST 2110 standards for professional media over IP networks.
• Strong understanding of service uptime, redundancy, and failover mechanisms in a broadcast environment.
• Experience with high‑performance storage solutions (Qumulo, Isilon, etc.).
• Experience with cloud computing platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Experience with Software Defined Networking (SDN) concepts and technologies such as Open Flow, or similar.
• Experience working with broadcast video equipment, such as routers, switchers, encoders, and decoders.
• Experience with timing and synchronization technologies, including Precision Time Protocol (PTP).
• Proven experience designing, implementing, and…