Job Description
About the role :
As our Engineering Manager, you will join the Content Delivery Engineering team, reporting into the Global Video Engineering organization at NBCUniversal. The role is based in Prague, Czechia and is focussed on leading the local team of seven engineers providing design, operation and delivery for our UK,EU and Africa based streaming products - SkyShowtime, Showmax and Now/Wow.
The role requires active collaboration with our colleagues in Portugal, the UK and across the US, with management located in New York – excellent spoken and written English is a must.
The wider Content Delivery Engineering team takes care of the CDN infrastructure of all the NBCUniversal/Sky propositions, including Peacock and OneApp in the US. The team is comprised of CDN, Software and Reliability Engineers, working across a mix of vendor provided and company-built solutions to provide exceptional VOD and live experiences to our audiences in the tens of millions.
Responsibilities:
Lead and inspire our CDN, software and reliability engineers, as they create, configure and maintain systems, software and managed services that deliver exceptional experiences to our audiences across the UK, Europe and Africa.
Working with our Product Owners, achieve effective resource management, User Story mapping, sprint planning, review and retrospective meetings for the local team + associated resources across timezones.
Develop productive relationships with the network of 3rd party suppliers & partners and our internal teams across throughout the group that are critical to our progress, bringing a predictive and consistent approach to our efforts.
Employ data from sources such as Jira, Service Now, BigQuery, Snowflake and supplier data to highlight success and identify shortcomings for our teams, resourcing, project progress and product performance.
Enjoy the pressure and take pride with being the centre of attention from our teams, senior & programme management, change, capacity planning, cyber and other key pillars of the business - being able to provide cross-discipline situation/incident briefings and presenting progress to key stakeholders as needed.
Qualifications:
Demonstrable experience (2+ years) in an engineering leadership role.
4+ years of experience in engineering roles with hands-on engineering experience.
A track record in handling projects in a fast-paced work environment.
A flair for communicating in spoken and written English, to a wide variety of nationalities.
Willingness to travel in North America and Europe for work-related activities.
An understanding of Content Delivery Networks, Streaming media delivery and OTT concepts for scaled Live and VOD content distribution is preferable.
Working knowledge of key internet technologies, eg TCP/IP, HTTP/S and DNS protocols.
What can you expect in return?
Working in an international environment on an impactful globally scaled technology in cross-functional team with an agile approach
Open and healthy working culture where we care about people as much as about stability of the code
Work equipment as per your specifications
Annual bonus based on your performance
Hybrid work, combining working from our office to be closer to the team and working from home
Work life balance thanks to flexible working hours
Generous free day scheme providing 25 days of holidays + 5 days of on-demand leave (sick days)
Contribution to Multisport Card or Benefit Card
Meal Allowance
Team building activities
Want to do the best work of your life? With 24 million customers in 7 countries, make your mark at Europe’s leading media and entertainment brand. A workplace where you can proudly be yourself; our people make Sky a truly exciting and inclusive place to work.
With 24 million customers across six countries, Sky is Europe’s leading media and entertainment company and is proud to be part of the Comcast group. Our 32,000 employees help connect our customers to the very best entertainment, sports, news, arts and to our own local, original content. Following the success of Sky originals like Chernobyl, we plan to double our investment in original content by 2024. We’re also developing a new TV and movie studio, Sky Studios Elstree, which is expected to lead to the creation of over 2,000 new jobs and generate an additional £3 billion of production investment in UK creative sector in the first five years alone.
Our technology allows Sky customers to watch what they want, when they want, how they want and connects millions of people to content they love. And our online streaming service, NOW, brings viewers all the enjoyment of Sky with the flexibility of a contract-free service. We also believe that a company of our scale has a responsibility that goes beyond our business, and into the community. We recently announced a series of commitments to help tackle racial injustice and improve diversity and inclusion.
To ensure the commitments are delivered, Sky will invest £10million per year across its markets for each of the next three years. We’re committed to being Europe’s first net zero carbon entertainment company by 2030 – two decades before we have to – and we’re an inclusive employer recognised by The Times and Stonewall for our commitment to diversity.