Description

Come build the future of entertainment with us. Are you interested in shaping the future of live events and television? Do you want to define the next generation of how and what Amazon customers are watching?

Prime Video is a premium streaming service that offers customers a vast collection of TV shows and movies - all with the ease of finding what they love to watch in one place. We offer customers thousands of popular movies and TV shows including Amazon Originals and exclusive licensed content to exciting live sports events. We also offer our members the opportunity to subscribe to add-on channels which they can cancel at anytime and to rent or buy new release movies and TV box sets on the Prime Video Store. Prime Video is a fast-paced, growth business - available in over 200 countries and territories worldwide. The team works in a dynamic environment where innovating on behalf of our customers is at the heart of everything we do. If this sounds exciting to you, please read on.

Key job responsibilities

• Deliver live sports and music events to a high standard globally

• Work with internal and external partners to perform pre-event checks and triage any audio/video or OTT issues.

• Own support activities for services and regularly work with development teams to establish and improve service support.

• Operate with limited guidance from management and aggressively drive issues to resolution.

• Aid in the development and testing of operational tools that improve efficiency through automation

• Contribute to the creation and improvement of support documentation.

• Assist in the training and development of new staff

• Create and interpret metrics that measure support success and service performance.

• You have a strong aptitude for trouble shooting and problem solving.

A day in the life

A typical day in the Amazon Video Operations Center (AVOC) begins with prepping and testing incoming feeds for live events that day - Events such as; Premier League football, Rugby, Music Concerts and much more!

During the event(s), playback is continuously monitored using cutting edge automated alerts along with more traditional forms of broadcast monitoring! Should an issue arise Amazon has a highly skilled global team of engineers and developers whom our support engineers work with to quickly mitigate and resolve any issues, to prevent disruption to customers.

Post event, support engineers collate any relevant data points and communicate these out to stakeholders.

About the team

Our primary goal is to deliver a stellar viewing experience for our customers by broadcasting ‘disruption-free’ live events. When issues arise, we bias on the side of mitigation so that the customer experience can be restored quickly. These are live events…and speed matters!

In addition to executing live events on a daily basis, we also keep an eye on the future.

Execution - We are always looking ahead five quarters to ensure we have trained teams ready to operate all committed events. We regularly review our operations to identify opportunities to improve operator efficiency and performance.

Scale - Our vision involves transitioning to a “manage-by-exception” model which will increase capacity and operational excellence. We will rely on automation to reduce the number of manual tasks. Human intervention will only be required to address anomalies that cannot automatically be addressed.

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

London, GBR

Basic Qualifications

• Experience troubleshooting and debugging technical systems

• Experience in development or technical support

• Experience scripting in modern programming languages

• knowledge of common streaming protocols and live OTT video delivery

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of web services, distributed systems, and web application development

• Experience troubleshooting & maintaining hardware & software RAID

• Experience working with device technologies under development, familiarity with flashing firmware, basic device debugging and familiarity with reading/pulling device logs

• Experience of a live streaming or live production environment with exposure to video encoding, signal acquisition.

Amazon is an equal opportunities employer. We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success. We make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills. We value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build. Protecting your privacy and the security of your data is a longstanding top priority for Amazon. Please consult our Privacy Notice (https://www.amazon.jobs/en/privacy_page) to know more about how we collect, use and transfer the personal data of our candidates.

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