Live Production Media Operator and Panel

  • Dublin
  • RtÉ
Live Production Media Operator and Panel, RTÉRTÉ is Ireland’s national public-service media organisation.  A leader in Irish media, RTÉ provides comprehensive, cost-effective, free-to-air multi-media services to the public in Ireland and interested audiences internationally.RTÉ is seeking to recruit an experienced Live Production Media Operator in its Operations division.This competition will also result in the formation of a single panel with qualified candidates of varied experience. Thus, while we have some immediate needs to resource from the panel, we are also interested in hearing from candidates who may not have the full range of experience outlined below.Reporting to the Live Media Supervisor, the Live Media team provide services to all RTÉ Live and Production output.The role involves a wide range of duties and requires multiple skills as follows:Live Ingest - Schedule, assign record ports and ingest all incoming live feeds to relevant content management systems following standard procedures, monitoring for accuracy, quality and availability and ensuring technical and metadata standards are adhered to. Tasks such as video routing and audio shuffling.EVS and Telestration operations - Route and ingest feeds, compile and playback analysis, highlights, and VTs for RTE output. Create sport VTs using Telestration tools/ applications such as PIERO for relevant studio and OB productions.  Studio Operations - Ingest studio output to content management systems. Studio VT playback. Ingest/Edit/Fast Turnaround content for studio output.  Media Operations - Ingest /Import incoming files/media to relevant systems adhering to agreed standards. Develop workflows to convert/transcode media. Save/consolidate media to relevant storage and location adhering to agreed standards. Export/move/deliver media files to required destinations.Media Management - Content Management system governance.The successful candidate will be: Highly experienced in both studio and outside broadcast production environments and workflows, with relevant operational skills, technical knowledge and personality traits to work in live production. They will be clear and decisive under pressure, with an ability to give and take direction and work in a fast-paced environment where resilience is often required. They must be passionate about broadcasting and public service media and have an interest in all RTÉ outputHighly experienced in record/ edit /play server systems (such as EVS), Graphic Telestration tools (such as PIERO) and other playback systems with sufficient technical understanding to troubleshoot and resolve issuesExtremely knowledgeable in broadcast and production formats, EBU standards and regulations and the underlying principles of video and audio signals, familiar with various camera resolutions, formats, codecs and wrappersExperienced in content management systems and storage -working knowledge of MAM systems DALET and AVID and understanding of NAS, enterprise and cloud storage solutions advantageousExperienced in craft editing and graphical applications and knowledgeable about post-production workflows – experience in AVID Media Composer advantageousExperienced designing and building efficient automated transcode and file ingest workflows – knowledge of Telestream, Signiant or Aspera an advantageAware of industry trends and familiar with IP video and audio standards such as SMPTE 2110 and video streaming technologies such as Live U and SRTAn experienced user across the Microsoft Office suiteCapable of assisting the Live Media Supervisor in maintaining equipment, documenting workflows, carrying out critical operational tasks, contributing to media management related projects, and assisting in reaching department sustainability goals