Experience: 12+ years
Location: Hyderabad
The Opportunity:
Come Build the Next Gen Video Convergence Platform
Background:
In the United States, a new TV broadcasting standard has recently been ratified by the US Government's Federal Communications Commission referred to as ATSC 3.0, this new technology literally doubles the broadcaster bandwidth pipes for the same amount of spectrum utilization apart from providing the ability to deliver broadcast TV signals to mobile devices. Coinciding with the widespread network build out and adoption of 5G technologies by US Telecom operators, the new standard, is poised to revolutionize TV services, significantly alter the IoT landscape, and is also poised to impact the connected car/autonomous car automotive industry. The broadcast industry and the telecom industry are expected to unprecedented levels of cooperation and synergies across all dimensions of offering digital communications and content services to consumers.
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Gaian Solutions is working with some of the industry’s' largest broadcasting groups to operate a Openstack based Cloud Content Delivery Platform that leverages the best of AI, ML and Data Science technologies in monetizing content delivery services for the 3.0 ecosystem.
About the position:
As the Video Solutions Architect at Gaian Solutions, you have the technical responsibility for the company’s market leading cloud based video delivery platform.
As a hands-on creator of the product, from design to development for our evolving features and solution, you will not only be involved in planning the solutions but also responsible for the coding and development along with other allocated personnel for every project.
You will have great influence on our OTT platform architecture strategy as well as technology selection and feature roadmap. We seek an experienced candidate with drive and passion that seeks to work with leading edge products and globally renowned customers.
Key Responsibilities
- Participate in hands on creation, including coding, and execution of the platform improvement strategy
- Continuously develop the OTT video platform deployed on Openstack, AWS and/or Azure
- Manage and execute projects in the field of video capture, encoding and transcoding, storage, delivery and content protection
- Work closely with the technology vendors and build good working relationships
- Continuous improvement of system automation and monitoring
- Participate in annual HW and SW budgeting
- Work closely with Product Management and Marketing in defining product definitions and product roadmap.
Skills and Experience
- Strong technical knowledge of high scale OTT TV systems and architectures
- Strong technical background on video encoding (H.264, HEVC/H.265)
- Good understanding of video packaging and OTT streaming (HLS, DASH, HDS, HSS)
- Good understanding of DRM solutions and offerings (Google Widevine, MS PlayReady, Verimatrix, Adobe Primetime, Apple FairPlay)
- Experience from satellite reception head-ends (IP receivers, conditional access solutions)
- Working knowledge from high scale physical and virtual environments (kvm) is beneficial
- Working knowledge of relevant networking technologies is appreciated (i.e. multicasting, routing, streaming protocols)
- Hands on experience with working on various encoding and origin server software platforms such as Varnish and Wowza
- Programming skills in Java, Python or similar
Nice to have Skills:
- Expertise in UML diagrams in support of HLD & LLD process.
- Author high quality design documentation.
- Mentor teams as a leader if not a manager.
- Deep understanding & respect for the Agile process.
- Experience in working with the culture prevalent in product development organizations.
- Passion to create high quality software product.
- Highly ambitious for success & growth.
- DRM vendor certifications (i.e. Google Widevine)
- ITIL certifications
- Analytical and structured
- Flexible and willing to learn
- Good presentation and customer service skills
- Thrives being on the leading edge of technology
About Gaian Solutions:
Gaian Solutions is a 13-year-old product organization and a leading edge provider of products and solutions to the media and entertainment industry.
Headquarters: San Francisco/Silicon Valley, USA
R&D development centers: India and China
Gaian’s products and solutions are deployed across the globe—US, APAC, Mexico, Maldives, & India. Today, the company serves businesses as diverse as billion dollar enterprises with corporate communication needs, federal emergency warning centers with real-time alert dissemination requirements, public transport networks broadcasting live streams of information, retail chains looking for sales closures from impactful content experiences as well as entertainment service providers with a constant need to delight consumers.
Gaian is all about our people, our values and our way of doing things—intangibles that can't be measured or modeled in business terms but that truly make the difference. With close to 250 experienced software architects, consultants, project managers, software, broadcast and media engineers located worldwide our purpose is honored each time we exceed our client’s expectations, each time an employee reaches his/her goals, and each time we contribute to the society positively and make it a better place.
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