Y4 Media Engineer (Disney Television Animation)

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Job Posting Title:
Y4 Media Engineer (Disney Television Animation)

Req ID:
10082158

Job Description:
About the Role & Team:

The Walt Disney Company is a world-class entertainment and technology leader. Walt's passion was to continuously envision new ways to move audiences around the world-a passion that remains our touchstone in an enterprise that stretches from: animation, theme parks, resorts, and a cruise line to sports, news, movies, and a variety of other businesses. Uniting each endeavor is a commitment to creating and delivering unforgettable experiences - and we're constantly looking for new ways to enhance these exciting experiences. Part of the Disney General Entertainment, Disney Television Animation (DTVA) is a high-volume digital animation production studio. DTVA's strong use of commercial and custom software technologies to create its animation products makes its use of technology, engineering, development techniques, and software critical to its production operations and workflows. DTVA Technology innovates and delivers solutions supporting our animation studio, whose legendary content transcends generations. As part of the Technology team, you'll be joining a group of passionate, dedicated technologists solving a variety of exciting problems in innovative ways in a dynamic industry. We are looking for hard-working, motivated individuals who are generalists and proficient in many technologies and languages. Our team embraces disruptive thinkers who can drive innovation.

What You Will Do:

• Serves as the principal technical liaison and service delivery resource for all audio and video editors and playback operators, as well as editorial, design, and mix users.
• Participates in the research, design, documenting, testing, deployment, and support of all editorial and sound editing and mix systems, their peripherals, and the physical configuration of our editorial suites.
• Participates in inventory management programs.
• Monitors and handles support requests, assuring all requests get resolved per Service Level Agreements.
• Knowledge of media technologies and data-driven workflows that support a high-volume digital animation production studio.
• Ability to collaborate with key project stakeholders, editorial users and third-party vendors.
• Partners closely with Technology and Engineering partners across the DTVA team.
• Ability to physically lift 40lbs

Required Qualifications & Skills:

Knowledge, experience and expertise with:

• Avid Media Composer
• Avid Pro Tools

• Networked attached and local data storage systems:
• Avid Nexis file systems
• Other file systems
• Interconnected clients over variety of protocols: NFS, SMB, DFS, NTFS.

• Casting, Music, Editorial, and Post-production engineering & front-end operators.
• Audio / Video file codecs.
• Audio & Video routing systems.
• Audio / Video engineering & signal flow troubleshooting (HDMI, HD/SDI, AES, analog audio & video) directly connect and over Fiber Optics - with and without TCP/IP transport.
• Waveform monitors, scopes, video/audio signal analyzers & generators, and sync measurement devices.
• Monitor and Display technologies: Color calibration and color science.
• IP-based interconnected equipment.
• Experience working in an animation post-production setting, preferably in a studio or post-production facility.

• Ability to create and maintain:

• Project Planning inclusive of subtasks, bill-of-materials, time/labor components, etc.
• Diagramming and Documentation of procedures, processes and systems inclusive of written processes (orders of execution), technical line drawings and logic charts.

• Excellent customer-service orientation & client rapport with a full understanding of the nuances of supporting a fast-paced post-production environment.

• Excellent time management skills:

• Ability to multitask in a complex, diverse production environment.
• Ability to quickly prioritize the execution of tasks based on decisions given.

• Motivated and self-directed.
• Excellent organization, logical/analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Script-based tools understanding (at an authoring level) a plus:

• Bash, Perl, Python, etc.

• Interplay/ Media Central & Cloud UX

• Experience working with hosted file systems and permission structures:

• Avid ACSR Certification or equivalent experience for Media Composer & Nexis Elite, Pro Tools is a plus.
• Editorial, Digital Distribution workflows.

Additional Information:

• This position is covered under a collective bargaining agreement- IATSE Local 700

The pay rate for this role in (location) is $53.63 to $67.45 per hour, which follows the pay scale agreed upon in the Collective Bargaining Agreement. The base pay actually offered may vary depending on the candidate's geographic region, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience, among other factors. Select benefits may be provided as part of the compensation package, such as medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the level and position offered. To learn more about our benefits visit:

Job Posting Segment:
Disney Branded Television

Job Posting Primary Business:
TVA IT

Primary Job Posting Category:
Sound Engineering

Employment Type:
Full time

Primary City, State, Region, Postal Code:
Glendale, CA, USA

Alternate City, State, Region, Postal Code:

Date Posted:
2024-03-01