Associate Solutions Architect - Media & Entertainment

Job description

DESCRIPTION

Are you the sort of person who can learn, develop and hone your skills to ultimately help our customers implement simple video workflows that solve their business challenges? Would you like to do this using the latest encoding and cloud computing technologies?

At AWS Elemental, we build and develop cloud-based and on-premises video encoding, origin, packaging, and management solutions for Live and Video-On-Demand workflows for customers worldwide. These solutions are integrated into larger AWS or other workflows. In this role, we are looking for a smart and ambitious individual to join us as an Associate Solutions Architect and assist our customers, partners, and AWS account teams with developing workflows to best fit the application and use case.

The AWS Elemental Associate SA will work closely with other SA's in our team to develop the required technical and soft skills to help our Media & Entertainment customers transition to AWS cloud services. The expected outcome for the individual we hire would be to help define, demonstrate and build cloud-based solutions for business challenges each Media & Entertainment (M&E) customer is facing.

Here are some other qualities we are looking for:

At AWS, we have a credo of “Work hard. Have fun. Make history.” In this role, you will love what you do, be a great teammate and instinctively know how to make work fun. You will be dynamic and creative, and willing to take on any challenge and make a big impact.

You need to have a passion for educating, training, designing, and building new cloud solutions for video workflows for a variety of different markets. You should be ready to embrace the challenge and have fun doing it.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

· A BA (Hons) degree in digital media / television production or similar.

Desired profile

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

· A passion for the media & entertainment industry
· Demonstrable aptitude to learn new skills quickly
· Strong communication skills
· Knowledge of Broadcast or Internet-based video workflows
· Working knowledge with video compression and packaging, especially H.264, HEVC, HLS and MPEG DASH