Sr. Solutions Architect - Video Services

Location: US Remote

This position requires up to 25% travel

Salary - Up to $180k Base + 25% OTE

Our client is the worldwide market leader in video delivery solutions. They enable media companies and service providers to stream and broadcast services at ultra-high-quality to consumers globally by using innovative SaaS platforms and software-based appliances.

Role Description

• As a member of the Sales team, the successful candidate will be a technical evangelist for their OTT, broadcast contribution solutions

• Your primary customers are content owners and aggregators (Satellite, Terrestrial, Telco, OTT - Mobile and Internet), broadcast television networks, TV and movie studios

• You will work closely with account executives and partners to position and further the company's solutions through every aspect of the sales cycle

• Technical lead on proposals providing necessary support to hit sales goals.

• Configure and try out hardware and/or software products, including third party equipment such as network routers, blade servers, and storage systems for customer demos and proof of concepts.

What you should have

• More than 3 years of relevant experience in cloud technologies and 5 years of total video experience. Recent college graduates in EE or CS are considered if they have associated experience.

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent

• Strong verbal, written and interpersonal communications skills. Fluency in English is required, other languages are a plus.

• Technical leadership skills in system integration projects. Good personal relationship skills, organized, with team-building skills

• Solid background in Virtualization & Cloud solution in the context of IaaS, SaaS, PaaS, DevOps

• Broad software and systems knowledge required especially within cloud deployment, virtualization, networking, stream processing, video compression, servers & storage products, and video related applications.

• Cloud and container environments: Microsoft Azure, Kubernetes, AWS, Google Cloud, Mesos, Docker/Containers, and hybrid clouds. Understanding on OpenStack and distro variants

• Operating systems: Unix administration, Linux distros (RedHat, CentOS, Ubuntu), Windows 2012/2008

• Data Center technologies: Hyper-V multi-tenant data center infrastructure and VMware vSphere, including Software-as-a-Service, Infrastructure-as-a-Service and Platform-as-a-Service.

• Networking: SDN, IP routing (RIP, OSPF, BGP), QoS (DiffServ, queuing), and switching. CCNA/CCNP is a plus, IP multicast (ASM, SSM, PIM, IGMPv1/2/3)

• Tools: Ansible, Python scripting, shell scripting, etc.

• MPEG-2/MPEG-4/HEVC video compression and encoding standards, OTT HLS and MPEG-DASH formats, stream processing.