Sr. Platform Engineer, Media Technology
How You’ll ContributeThe Technology Division creates digital experiences for and delivers information technology services to the National Geographic Society (NGS). From our staff to our constituents, Technology provides the power to amplify NGS’s impact through value-based product delivery, transformational data services, and world-class support and infrastructure services. These services include employee training and technical support, audio/visual production, device management, enterprise architecture, network management, on-premise and cloud computing, information security, identity management, data management and integration, product management, user experience design, software development, systems engineering, and systems administration. Technology comprises five teams: Business Products, Constituent Products, Data Products, Infrastructure & Security, and Technology Support Services.As part of the Media Technology Team, Sr. Platform Engineers are responsible for understanding and enabling media activities at National Geographic. NGS produces multiple petabytes of new media every year and faces diverse challenges around capturing, producing and distributing media around the world, all while maintaining a world-class archive of physical and digital media. This requires NGS’s Media Technology staff to be well versed in the manipulation, automation and management of media and associated metadata.The Sr. Platform engineers provide both day-to-day and project-related technology support for the following functions: video production, digital preservation, library and collections management, media ingest, workflow design and implementation, system engineering and administration.The Sr. Platform Engineers play a key role in continuous improvement by identifying inefficiencies and working with Technology management and teams to devise and implement solutions that improve operational efficiency, delivery predictability, and quality of service.Your Impact Your Impact & ResponsibilitiesArchitecture & Engineering (60%)Manage the design, development, maintenance, and support of digital asset management platform components, including automation routines and system integrations.Develop software components and automated unit tests. Work with DevOps team to maintain and extend build and release pipelines.Oversee the creation and maintenance of architectural and operational documentation according to department standards.Work closely with customers and product managers to identify and translate functional and non-functional requirements into actionable work, focusing closely on technical feasibility and technology investment choices.Works with IT infrastructure and operations teams to ensure that systems are configured and managed with appropriate levels of processing/storage/network capacity, data protection, and security compliance.Operations & Technical Support (20%)Oversee the technical administration duties required to maintain the digita...