European manager of Cloud Media engineering (M/F)

Context

Within Globecast, the Global Engineering Direction is responsible for anticipating, designing and deploying technical solutions for customers and employees of the Globecast group, worldwide.

It is organized around centers of expertise (Cloud Media Services, Networks IT & Security and Infrastructures) and transversal centers (Projects & Integration, Project Management Office).

Within the Global Engineering Direction, the Cloud Media Services department consists of around forty employees, in France and the UK, spread across the teams

• Cloud Media services & Ops
• Cloud Event Media engineering
• Content Management & Integration

Cloud Media brings together so-called “linear” activities: video acquisition (contribution, ingest), processing (encoding, transcoding and packaging), delivery (distribution, OTT), management of the CloudMediaHub, orchestration on the perimeter. On cloud or on- premises solutions.

Cloud Event Media team brings together the French ad-hoc activities (management of live sport events such as football League 1, PMU, AFCON, Olympics Games…) and an integrated adhoc/permanent team in UK.

Content Management & Integration brings together so-called “non-linear” content management activities, as well as the integration of SaaS solutions from our media partners: Production, Media Asset Management, playout, Captive Audience products, Cinema Delivery, Content Exchange.

The 3 teams address all of our customers, contribution and permanent.

The international dimension of the team is intended to extend to the rest of Europe (Italy), as well as to the World teams (Asia, South Africa, US).

Working at Globecast means having the opportunity to address a rapidly evolving market, with strong technological developments. It also means being close to Globecast’s business customers. In this context, Globecast is transforming itself to better support its customers.

I am looking for a motivated manager for the Cloud Event Media Engineering team to lead the transformation internally and with our clients. It is made up of around twenty people, in France and the UK. Its missions are as follows.

Your missions and those of your department:

• Managing teams on a daily basis
• Lead and support the transformation
• Manage the strategy of our media solutions and infrastructures at the global level
• Carry out the technical transformation in a homogeneous manner in all regions, in conjunction with Marketing
• Prioritize projects that create the most value for Globecast
• Simplify, at the global level, infrastructures and technical solutions, linked to Marketing
• Develop automation and orchestration
• Continue migration and up skilling on the cloud
• Implement integrated team operation / DevOps

The activities of your teams:

• Manage the strategy of our Media solutions and infrastructures at the global level
• Map, simplify and standardize technical solutions within its scope
• Participate in the two main areas of activity: permanent or occasional activities (events )
• Design, implement and maintain infrastructures, solutions and tools in operational condition
• Being in contact with our customers on technical subjects, whether during the pre-sales, project or support phases
• Provide 24/7 L2/3 support to the European Service Center teams
• Manage relationships with suppliers and partners: technological monitoring, developments, incident monitoring
• SysOps and FinOps roles within its scope
• Implement orchestration and automation tools in your domain
• Manage major transformation projects : platform migration to cloud or virtualized solutions

Required profile

SKILLS

• Experienced manager, previous experience of international teams, in a context of strong transformation
• Engineering degree or similar experience
• You have experience in the areas of design, deployment of infrastructures and media services
• Knowledge of the ecosystem and technology partners in the media field
• You have knowledge of IT and Cloud technologies
• You are comfortable in a complex technical environment (a skills development phase will be organized)
• Project management
• English level B2 minimum

More :

• You are familiar with or open to Agile/ Devops methods
• Experience in the ad-hoc activity

Know-how

• Demonstrate leadership
• Demonstrate relational intelligence
• Team spirit, ability to work cross-functionally
• Customer orientation and concrete results
• You are pragmatic, rigorous and autonomous
• Be organized, know how to prioritize and make decisions
• Strength of proposal
• Adaptability and responsiveness
• Excellent listening and communication skills
• Strategic vision
• Know how to implement the company’s strategy

Occasional travel may occur given the international dimension of the position.

Eligible for teleworking.