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JOB DESCRIPTION / ROLE

Employment: Full Time

Overview

MBC is looking for an experience professional with deep understanding of media and cloud solutions to be responsible for actively monitoring and optimizing various systems and solutions across its TV Platform products. The role requires to work closely with internal and external technical teams and be the go-to person from business side to review, define and monitor KPIs for all systems, integrations and solutions.

Key responsibilities and accountabilities

- Derive functional/technical requirements from the BRD.
- Review system architecture and solutions design for complex requirements.
- Drive POC's and solutions evaluations in coordination with development, infrastructure and security teams.
- Responsible for enabling technical roadmaps, outlining future directions and planned system & solutions advancements.
- Participate in review of system test cases with Engineering teams.
- Conduct profiling, benchmarking and performance tuning activities.
- Identify process inefficacies and recommend improvements/automation.
- Responsible for tech budgets and optimizing infrastructure cost.
- Review/participate in resolution of complex production issues.
- Review/participate in resolution of performance issues.
- Participate in solutioning of business and product requirements.
- Fully and completely understand system interdependencies and limitations.
- Leverage internal and industry knowledge to make informed solutions design decisions.

Requirements:

- Minimum 8+ years of experience building large scalable systems.
- Solid background with hands-on experience as a principal-level software development engineer.
- Expertise in some or all of the following technologies - HTTP Live Streaming (HLS), DASH, RTMP, RTSP, etc.
- Hands on knowledge of media codecs, formats, transports and container protocols, such as MPEG-2, H.264/AVC, AAC, AC3, MP4.
- Knowledge on Cloud Technologies like S3, Net Storage, CloudFront etc.
- Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and designing for performance.
- Ability to provide technical guidance across backend, frontend, and ML technologies.
- Thrive in a highly innovative and fast-paced environment, achieving stretch goals.
- Familiarity with CDN architectures (caches, origin servers, proxies, etc.)

Unfortunately, due to the high number of responses we receive we are unable to provide feedback to all applicants. If you have not been contacted within 5-7 days, please assume that at this stage your application has been unsuccessful.

ABOUT THE COMPANY

MBC GROUP is the largest media company in the Middle East & North Africa region that enriches people’s lives through information, interaction and entertainment. In 2002, nearly a decade after the launch of MBC1 in London, in 1991, MBC GROUP moved its headquarters to Dubai Media City, United Arab Emirates.

Today, MBC GROUP includes over 17 leading TV channels: MBC1 (general family entertainment); MBC2 & MBC MAX (24-hour western movies); MBC3 (children’s edutainment with a mix of both local productions and western acquisitions); MBC4 (entertainment for young families with a female-focus); MBC ACTION (an indigenous adrenaline-packed channel targeting young males with local and homegrown productions); MBC VARIETY (Western films and general entertainment with uninterrupted broadcasting); MBC DRAMA (24/7 Arabic drama) & MBC+ DRAMA (a joint pay-TV channel between MBC and OSN); MBC PERSIA (general family entertainment dubbed and subtitled in Farsi); WANASAH (24-hour Arabic music channel); MBC MASR & MBC MASR2 (general family entertainment geared towards the Egyptian family); MBC BOLLYWOOD (delivering the freshest in Bollywood content geared towards the region via an Arabized interface); MBC USA (on “Dish Network” in the US); MBC IRAQ (a premium channel aimed at the entire Iraqi family), MBC5 (new satellite channel dedicated to the Maghreb); all of them benefit from MBC STUDIOS which produces the region’s most compelling premium content for cinema, television and on-demand platforms. MBC GROUP also includes two FM radio stations: MBC FM (Gulf music) and Panorama FM (contemporary Arabic hit music).

Furthermore, part of MBC GROUP is Shahid and its premium subscription-based service Shahid VIP, the world’s leading Arabic streaming platform, home to highly rated original productions from the Arab world, a wide range of exclusive movies and premieres, as well as the top watched live Arab TV channels.

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