Description

Do you like to build? Are you passionate about Live Production and Broadcast and other specialties in the Media and Entertainment, Games, and Sports industries? Are you excited by all things that make content flow, grow, and excite viewers? Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking a Solutions Architect (SA) who will be responsible for the technology strategy and senior level relationships with our enterprise media customers, as well as thought leadership in the Media & Entertainment (M&E) industry. The AWS Solutions Architect (SA) is responsible for educating customers, partners, systems integrators, and strategic consultancies on emerging technologies and solutions that are transforming the M&E industry, particularly in Live Production and Broadcast solution areas. They help with hands-on architecture for real-life customer projects involving AWS services, Independent Software Vendor (ISV)/partner solutions. They also work with cross Amazon teams to design outcome based holistic solutions for our strategic M&E opportunities. The SA builds and publishes content and collateral, and presents to customers in 1:1 and 1:many settings. They work with customers remotely and in person.

Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we’re building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects based on what will help each team member develop into a better-rounded professional and enable them to take on more complex tasks in the future.

Here at AWS, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have ten employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings, and we host annual and ongoing learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences. Amazon’s culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 16 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.

Our team also puts a high value on work-life balance. Striking a healthy balance between your personal and professional life is crucial to your happiness and success here, which is why we aren’t focused on how many hours you spend at work or online. Instead, we’re happy to offer a flexible schedule so you can have a more productive and well-balanced life—both in and outside of work.

Key job responsibilities

This Solutions Architect will work deep in the M&E, Games, and Sports industries with live cloud production, live cloud broadcast, cloud channel playout origination, distribution monitoring, post production and other associated technologies. This role will see around corners and identify applications of emerging technologies to reduce friction, eliminate waste, and re-invent customer workflows with industry/cloud-based tools and architectures. The SA delivers written and spoken communications to establish AWS as the public cloud of choice for media organizations looking to accelerate revenue growth and improve return on assets.

This position will work with:

• Live event production on the AWS cloud

• Live Camera to cloud

• Multichannel audio production and delivery for live

• Channel playout origination

• Master Control rooms

• Production Control rooms

• Advertising signaling and insertion

• Cloud signals routing

• Multicamera Switching

• Live graphics

• Distribution and monitoring

• Post production

The Solutions Architect will also work with modern live production and broadcast systems including:

• Partner solutions used widely in the M&E industry

• Serverless compute platforms and architecture patterns

• Storage and architectural patterns around distributed systems

• Big Data Analytics

About the team

You will be part of a team of worldwide AWS Media and Entertainment Specialist Solutions Architects engaging customers locally and sharing knowledge globally. We all learn from a diverse pool of expertise coupled with on the ground practical knowledge gained from Working Backwards from our customer needs.

Internal job description

If you are passionate and practiced in M&E, talk to us. Maybe your specialty is not perfectly aligned but let's talk to be sure.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Seoul, KOR

Basic Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in technology architecture roles within large enterprise media organizations or partners with a focus on live production and broadcast.

• 5+ years of experience working with integrated content ingest, library, enhancement, and delivery workflows including knowledge of content production, direct-to-consumer, analytics, MAM, content lakes, and content metadata

• 5+ years of experience designing and measuring the effectiveness of complex live production and broadcast workflows.

• Experience in architecting complex distributed use cases leveraging AWS services and multi-vendor environments

Preferred Qualifications

• Breadth of experience across IT and/or practical M&E industry experience in multiple of the following areas:

• Software design or development; Infrastructure architecture; Distributed systems; Content/Data Security; Data Center Operations; Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning and Big Data Analytics

• Prior Hands-on AWS experience and deep knowledge of cloud architectures

• Expert level technical acumen, including the ability to understand the customer and partner landscape, identify opportunities and overcome technical obstacles, ultimately influencing the adoption of AWS services.

• Expert level ability to understand the business domain of the customer or partner and the business problems the customer or partner is facing, with the intent to solve the business problems.

• Expert level ability to interact with senior leadership (e.g. CxO’s) within a customer or partner organization.