Job Description

WHY JOIN US?

• We practice a vibrant & energetic office culture.

• We provide opportunities for career advancement within the company.

• Good performance is always rewarded accordingly.

“It's our people that make Astro Malaysia’s leading entertainment company. We are an inclusive employer, to enable everyone at Astro to be their best. We embrace differences – we celebrate it, we support it, and we thrive on it for the benefit of our employees, our products/services and our community. We also understand and appreciate that diversity is a driver of creativity and innovation, which will make our business more competitive, compelling and profitable.”

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Accountable for the 99.9% of all Local as well as Regional Playout channels service availability with minimal operational error throughout the 12 hours shift duty.
• Monitor and perform Live/ Playout service recovery and BCP whenever required not limited to system related downtime but also during planned / unplanned maintenance activities which impacts the operation.
• Ensure playlists are received without discrepancy from all Playout channels schedulers / planners for current day as well as future transmission.
• Execution of secondary events (graphic animation, crawler etc)
• Provide shift operation related data and information for daily operations as well as periodic data analysis report.
• Assist Senior Engineer to supervise and organize shift operations activities during the absent of Senior Engineer.
• To conceptual, plan and coordinate presentation for smooth live events.
• To ensure incoming live feed AV quality meet ASTRO technical specifications and able to operate presentation/broadcast equipment’s.
• To operate presentation equipment such as Vision Mixer, Audio Mixer, graphics and automation system.
• Liaise with Studio Operations, Master Control Room, Quality & Compliance, Content & Presentation and also Outside Broadcast for live events and transmission for ASTRO & Regional channels.
• Ensure smooth live presentation on air and adhere to the guidelines as stipulated by the relevant authorities’ .i.e. Broadcast Laws, Regulatory Framework & Environment.
• Ensuring all recording / ingest for broadcast requirement executed and delivered
• Managing all transmission aggregation across all relevant units.
• To follow up with source provider and escalation on pending feed related issues.
• Manage all feed contribution and configuration for all incoming feed.
• To produce detail Live transmission, Feed aggregation and Playout reports.

REQUIREMENTS:

• Dip/Degree in IT/Computer/ Electronic/Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Mass Comm or equivalent.
• Good oral/written communication skills in English and Bahasa Malaysia.