Engineer, Live Pres & Playout (Contract)

WHY JOIN US?

• We practice a vibrant & energetic office culture.
• We provide opportunities for career advancement within the company.
• Good performance is always rewarded accordingly.

“ It's our people that make Astro Malaysia’s leading entertainment company. We are an inclusive employer, to enable everyone at Astro to be their best. We embrace differences – we celebrate it, we support it, and we thrive on it for the benefit of our employees, our products/services and our community. We also understand and appreciate that diversity is a driver of creativity and innovation, which will make our business more competitive, compelling and profitable. ”

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

• Accountable for the 99.9% of all Local as well as Regional Playout channels service availability with minimal operational error throughout the 12 hours shift duty.
• Monitor and perform Live/ Playout service recovery and BCP whenever required not limited to system related downtime but also during planned / unplanned maintenance activities which impacts the operation.
• Ensure playlists are received without discrepancy from all Playout channels schedulers / planners for current day as well as future transmission.
• Execution of secondary events (graphic animation, crawler etc)
• Provide shift operation related data and information for daily operations as well as periodic data analysis report.
• Assist Senior Engineer to supervise and organize shift operations activities during the absent of Senior Engineer.
• To conceptual, plan and coordinate presentation for smooth live events.
• To ensure incoming live feed AV quality meet ASTRO technical specifications and able to operate presentation/broadcast equipment’s.
• To operate presentation equipment such as Vision Mixer, Audio Mixer, graphics and automation system.
• Liaise with Studio Operations, Master Control Room, Quality & Compliance, Content & Presentation and also Outside Broadcast for live events and transmission for ASTRO & Regional channels.
• Ensure smooth live presentation on air and adhere to the guidelines as stipulated by the relevant authorities’ .i.e. Broadcast Laws, Regulatory Framework & Environment.
• Ensuring all recording / ingest for broadcast requirement executed and delivered
• Managing all transmission aggregation across all relevant units.
• To follow up with source provider and escalation on pending feed related issues.
• Manage all feed contribution and configuration for all incoming feed.
• To produce detail Live transmission, Feed aggregation and Playout reports.

REQUIREMENTS

• Dip/Degree in IT/Computer/ Electronic/Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Mass Comm or equivalent.
• Good oral/written communication skills in English and Bahasa Malaysia.