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Streaming support Engineer

EmployVisionUnited States🇺🇸United StatesPosted Sep 17, 2026

Why This Role Stands Out

This hybrid role offers significant growth potential in a cutting-edge video streaming environment, allowing you to hone your skills in troubleshooting, automation, and Infrastructure as Code. You'll thrive here if you're a proactive, mid-senior engineer eager to take ownership of critical production incidents and collaborate across teams. Apply to join EmployVision and contribute to the stability of their renowned platforms.

Quick Overview

Seniority
Mid Senior
Work mode
Hybrid
Location
United States
Posted
3 days ago
MicroservicesELKCDNGrafanaHelmKibanaKubernetesPrometheusTerraform

Job Description

Senior L2 Production Support Engineer – Video Streaming / OTT

Position Summary

We are seeking a Senior L2 Production Support Engineer to support the stability, availability, and operational performance of 24/7 live video streaming, advertising, player, and real-time delivery platforms.

The engineer will take end-to-end ownership of customer-impacting production incidents escalated from L1 Support. This is a hands-on, customer-facing role involving production troubleshooting, incident management, automation, Infrastructure as Code, and operational improvements. The role will also serve as a key operational bridge between Support, Engineering, DevOps, partners, and customers, particularly during high-impact live events.

Key Responsibilities

Incident & Production Support

  • Own and drive escalated customer issues from L1 Support through resolution.
  • Troubleshoot complex production incidents affecting live streaming, VOD playback, ad insertion, DRM, and WebRTC services.
  • Work directly within production environments to perform approved configuration changes, CDN adjustments, mitigations, and emergency changes when required.
  • Lead or actively participate in live incident bridges involving customers, internal teams, and external partners.
  • Provide clear and timely incident updates, including customer-facing communications.
  • Monitor production systems and respond to critical alerts in accordance with established SLAs.

Infrastructure as Code & Operations

  • Work with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to troubleshoot and safely modify production environments.
  • Utilize technologies and workflows such as Terraform, Helm, Kubernetes manifests, GitOps, CI/CD, and deployment pipelines.
  • Execute infrastructure and configuration changes through safe, auditable, and repeatable processes.
  • Collaborate with Engineering and DevOps teams to improve deployment reliability and operational safety.

AI-Driven Operations & Automation

  • Leverage AI tools and automation to improve operational efficiency and incident response.
  • Support AI-assisted incident triage, classification, alert correlation, and automated runbook execution.
  • Use AI to improve incident communications and accelerate troubleshooting.
  • Identify recurring incident patterns and opportunities for automation and operational scalability.
  • Contribute to automation-first and AI-augmented operational practices.

Pre-Event Readiness

  • Participate in operational readiness activities for critical customer and live-streaming events.
  • Validate runbooks, monitoring coverage, system readiness, and potential operational risks.
  • Develop and rehearse incident response strategies for high-risk scenarios.
  • Coordinate with customers and internal teams to ensure smooth event execution.

24/7 On-Call Operations

  • Participate in a global 24/7 on-call rotation, including nights, weekends, and holidays.
  • Respond to critical alerts related to stream health, player performance, and delivery infrastructure.
  • Ensure effective handoffs between shifts and global support regions.

Root Cause Analysis & Continuous Improvement

  • Perform and contribute to Root Cause Analysis (RCA) for production incidents.
  • Document incident findings, corrective actions, and preventive measures.
  • Identify recurring issues and partner with Engineering and Product teams to address systemic problems.
  • Create and improve operational runbooks, playbooks, and knowledge-base documentation.

Engineering & Cross-Functional Collaboration

  • Partner with Engineering teams to escalate defects, validate fixes, and support production deployments.
  • Provide feedback on observability, monitoring, tooling gaps, and operational risks.
  • Represent operational requirements during post-incident reviews.
  • Collaborate with Support, Engineering, DevOps, Product, and customer-facing teams to improve overall platform reliability.

Required Qualifications & Skills

  • 5+ years of experience in production operations, technical support, operational support, SRE, or a related customer-facing technical role.
  • Proven ability to independently own complex technical issues from investigation through resolution.
  • Strong experience supporting production video streaming, OTT, or live-streaming platforms.
  • Strong troubleshooting experience across distributed systems, APIs, microservices, and cloud infrastructure.
  • Knowledge of HLS, DASH, CMAF, WebRTC, DRM, and CDN architectures.
  • Experience with monitoring, alerting, and log-analysis tools such as:
  • Grafana
  • Prometheus
  • Kibana / ELK
  • Loki
  • Ability to correlate backend streaming metrics, player telemetry, and CDN signals to diagnose customer-impacting issues.
  • Experience making controlled changes within production environments.
  • Working knowledge of incident management, production operations, and on-call support.
  • Strong understanding of Infrastructure as Code and deployment practices, including Terraform, Helm, Kubernetes, GitOps, and CI/CD.

Operational & Communication Skills

  • Strong sense of ownership and accountability for customer outcomes.
  • Ability to remain structured and decisive during high-pressure production incidents.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
  • Comfortable communicating technical issues and status updates directly to customers.
  • Strong collaboration skills across Engineering, DevOps, Support, Product, and other cross-functional teams.
  • Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced 24/7 production environment.

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