Manager, Production Network Platform (network Engineering Team)

Manager, Production Network Platform

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Your New Role

The Manager, Production Network Platform is responsible for leading the network engineering team across strategic, tactical, and continuous improvement efforts for mission-critical network platforms. This role is vital to ensuring the reliability, performance, and scalability of network infrastructure supporting live media production, broadcast operations, and content delivery across studio, remote, and event-based environments.

The ideal candidate will bring deep experience in broadcast/media network architectures, strong operational discipline, and a forward-thinking approach to emerging technologies in both live production and campus-scale fabric networking.

Lead and mentor a team of engineers supporting high-availability, high-performance network platforms critical to live and recorded media production workflows

Manage large-scale, multi-site campus fabric networks, utilizing technologies such as EVPN-VXLAN, spine-leaf topologies, and segment routing to support dynamic, high-bandwidth media workflows

Ensure real-time monitoring and rapid incident response for live event networking, including redundant pathing, failover, QoS, and multicast traffic management

Work closely with media infrastructure and cloud teams to support hybrid workflows, including IP-based contribution/distribution, remote production (REMI), and cloud-based playout or editing systems

Participate in a management on-call rotation, providing after-hours support for production-critical systems and live event coverage, ensuring rapid response to incidents that could impact broadcast operations

Lead or contribute to major incident response efforts, coordinating cross-functional teams during outages or performance degradations to ensure timely resolution and communication

Qualifications & Experiences:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Information Systems or similar
• Minimum of 8 years of experience in network administration in an enterprise production environment
• Strong skills with network protocols, standards and policies
• Strong skills with at least two of the following networks platforms: Juniper, Cisco, Arista and Palo Alto
• Understanding of load balancing, remote access, DNS, DHCP and IPAM platforms
• 5 years of media industry experience preferred
• Experience with live 24x7 news/sports production
• Video distribution/contribution networking knowledge
• Process oriented leader with strong execution and follow-through skills
• Able to perform multiple tasks simultaneously and prioritize self and team
• Strong and consistent customer service and communication skills
• Willingness to work a flexible schedule
• Strong leader with self-motivation and desire to improve the infrastructure
• Excellent troubleshooting, analytical and problem-solving skills
• Minimal travel anticipated for this position
• Must have the legal right to work in the US.

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