Job Opportunity in Qatar: Senior Engineer MCR at Al Jazeera Media Network
By: Al Jazeera Media InstituteLast update:
Applicant criteria
Nationality
No specific nationality requiredSpeciality
EngineeringAge
- No specific age required
Years of Experience
- 5+
Gender
- Both
Opportunity criteria
Job Type
- Freelance
Job Fields
Engineering and Architecture JobsOpportunity Field
Media and Journalism, Engineering and ArchitectureJob location
Qatar (Doha)Needed documents
CV, Cover Letter, PortfolioOpportunity description
Al Jazeera Media Network in Qatar offers ajobopportunity for the position of senior engineer MCR, with a freelance contract for 12 months. At the core of the station’s technical facilities, the senior MCR Engineer is responsible for acquiring live and recorded media via Satellite, Fibre, and IP Technology. He/She manages the loading of multiple traffic strands on the AJMN fibre and satellite network and ensures the technical operational stability for the delivery of both News and Programmes incoming to the station.
Duties & responsibilities
You will be responsible for:
- Provide 1st level support for various MCR sub-systems to maintain services ON AIR.
- Ensures healthy operating conditions of MCR systems and services identifying service-impacting anomalies and alerting appropriate personnel as needed.
- Analyze and diagnose systems faults/alarms occurrences, analyze service incidents, and report to broadcast engineering and services providers as applicable and follow up on rectification progress.
- Communicate with the Facilities Section to coordinate the flow of incoming News or Programs.
- Operate the core technical facilities for acquiring live news via satellite, fiber, or IP Technology.
- Undertake Quality Control and transcoding of all incoming streams or package transfers to Media Servers.
- Coordinate effectively with operators in the field to support remote operations via satellite, fibre, and IP networks.
- Identify faults and take immediate preventative action to restore traffic.
- Undertakes routine testing, and preventative and corrective maintenance of transmission systems and ancillary equipment.
- Provide technical operational and engineering support to other technical areas within the broadcast center.
- Ensure the monitoring and adjustment of incoming video streams according to the AJMN Broadcasting Technical Standards.
- Perform other duties as assigned from time to time by his/her superiors/DLM.
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Eligibility criteria
You must have:
- Bachelor’s degree in Electronics/Telecommunication/Broadcast Engineering.
- A minimum of 5 years experience in a 24-hour news MCR environment.
- Or working in a Media Technical department.
About Al Jazeera Media Network:
Al Jazeera Media Network (AJMN) is a Qatari state-funded global media conglomerate headquartered in Doha, Qatar. It is the parent company of Al Jazeera and its related networks. The chairman is Sheikh Hamad bin Thamer Al Thani. The network's news operation currently has a total of 70 bureaux around the world that are shared between the network's channels and operations, the second-largest amount of bureaux of any media company in the world after the BBC.
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