Audio / Video Engineer - Full-time / Part-time

Audio / Video Engineer

Employer:

Blackstone

Firm Overview:

Blackstone

Blackstone is one of the world s leading investment firms. We seek to create positive economic impact and long-term value for our investors, the companies we invest in, and the communities in which we work. We do this by using extraordinary people and flexible capital to help companies solve problems. Our asset management businesses, with over $370 billion in assets under management, include investment vehicles focused on private equity, real estate, public debt and equity, non-investment grade credit, real assets and secondary funds, all on a global basis. Further information is available at . Follow Blackstone on Twitter .

Business Unit:

Innovations and Infrastructure

Job Title:

Audio/Video Engineer

Job Description:

This individual will be responding for evaluating, implementing and re-architecture of the firm s global unified / video communications strategy. Blackstone s video infrastructure spans across 30+ corporate sites and data center facilities.

• Responsible for migrating from legacy architecture to a world class unified / video communications, which includes chat/IM, content sharing, video and voice technologies.
• Ability to conduct short-and long-term planning to meet current and future collaborative requirements.
• Responsible for working closely with other members of the voice and video team to deliver, enhance and support the global video environment.
• Partner with the firm s Facilities Dept. to design collaboration spaces.
• Identify the effectiveness and efficiencies of existing systems. Develop and implement strategies for improving the efficiency, reliability and performance of these systems and/or replace where necessary.
• Define standard operating procedures and diagrams for the video ecosystem. Establish system administration standards and procedures as it relates to any new deployment or changes to existing infrastructure.
• Manage escalations of collaboration/video issues and working in conjunction with the firm s service desk ticket process.
• Contribute to workflow across change requests, documentation, ticketing, design sessions and meeting participation.
• Help contribute to the course for the team through annual roadmap planning and fluidly handle reprioritization.
• Coordinate vendor escalations by acting as a bridge between the vendor s engineering resources and Blackstone.
• Ensuring a consistent and reliable UC/video collaboration environment, with careful regard to availability, connectivity, performance, and security.
• Contribute to and drive the development of workflow for collaborative-related processes.
• Responsible for asset lifecycle management across the firm.

Qualifications:

Core Technical Skills Required:

• Experience with UC / video technologies such as: Cisco, Acano (CMS), MS LYNC, as well as a variety of end points.
• Technical background on the integration of conferencing environments with AV components containing AMX, and ClearOne.
• A deep understanding of current and future uc/video conferencing protocol standards: SIP, H.323 and QOS.
• A background understanding of network switching and routing as related to a real time communications.
• Experience implementing and maintaining video solutions on a global and within a very secure environment.
• Must possess a high degree of accountability, and commitment to meeting firm wide expectations.
• Must be capable of working independently, while at the same time demonstrating a collaborative and team work style.
• Responsible for possessing technical awareness in the collaboration technology arena, while having a vendor agnostic approach relating to the technologies.

An ideal candidate should have at least 7-8 years in a video conferencing role, having worked extensively with a range of video infrastructure and heavily involved in design and implementation of global deployments. The candidate must be team oriented, flexible and have the ability to adapt to a fast paced and changing environment, making the right personality as important as technical skills.

The candidate should display the following:

• Ability to work with a wide array of stakeholders, including senior management, vendors, technical staff and end users.
• Ability to effectively articulate and present ideas.
• Identify and effectively design around firm use cases.
• A positive team player with excellent communication skills.
• Great interpersonal skills and passion to build relationships within and across teams
• Organized and reliable.
• Accountable to deadlines.
• Entrepreneurial attitude.
• Excellent problem-solving skills.
• Thrives under pressure.
• Able to respond quickly to changing business needs.
• Innovative and resourceful.

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