OVERVIEW OF THE COMPANY
Fox Corporation
Under the FOX banner, we produce and distribute content through some of the world’s leading and most valued brands, including: FOX News Media, FOX Sports, FOX Entertainment, FOX Television Stations and Tubi Media Group. We empower a diverse range of creators to imagine and develop culturally significant content, while building an organization that thrives on creative ideas, operational expertise and strategic thinking.
JOB DESCRIPTION
FOX Corporation is seeking a high-impact Vice President, Media Technology Engineering to lead the engineering, implementation, and operational reliability of the technology environment supporting FOX News Media and Fox Television Stations.
This leader will oversee the teams responsible for operating and continuously improving the critical infrastructure that supports news gathering, live broadcast, production, post-production, playout, master control, transmission, and digital media distribution.
The role will lead a high-performing engineering organization responsible for network, compute, storage, virtualization, cloud infrastructure, broadcast systems, disaster recovery, and platform resiliency. The successful candidate will have deep experience operating highly available media environments and implementing complex broadcast technology transformations, including SMPTE ST 2110 video-over-IP systems.
Reporting to the SVP, Media Technology & Engineering, this role will partner closely with the VP, Media Technology Architecture and other technology leaders. The VP of Architecture will establish future-state architecture, standards, and technical direction. This role will own engineering execution, implementation, operational readiness, reliability, lifecycle management, and incident response.
Role Scope
The major areas of responsibility include:
- Broadcast technology engineering and operations
- SMPTE ST 2110 implementation and operational reliability
- Network, compute, storage, and virtualization engineering
- Hybrid cloud infrastructure operations
- Station automation and delivery platforms
- OTT, streaming, and OTA technology support
- News and local production support
- Media technology and transmission
- Disaster recovery and platform resiliency
- 24/7 technical operations and incident response
Responsibilities
Engineering Operations and Reliability
- Lead the day-to-day engineering and operational support of mission-critical broadcast and media technology environments.
- Ensure 24/7/365 availability, reliability, and operational readiness across broadcast, production, distribution, and transmission platforms.
- Establish operating procedures, escalation paths, service expectations, and incident response practices.
- Partner with Critical Response and Operations teams to manage major incidents, root-cause analysis, and corrective actions.
- Monitor system health and ensure timely resolution of reliability, performance, and availability issues.
Broadcast Systems Implementation and Support
- Lead the engineering implementation, integration, testing, deployment, and lifecycle management of broadcast technology platforms.
- Support live news gathering, contribution, production, post-production, playout, master control, station automation, and transmission workflows.
- Implement and operate SMPTE ST 2110 video-over-IP environments, including routing, timing, packet integrity, latency, and system interoperability.
- Support the transition from SDI-based workflows to synchronized, software-defined IP media facilities in partnership with the Media Architecture team.
- Maintain operational compatibility across existing systems while implementing new technology platforms.
Network and Infrastructure Engineering
- Lead engineering execution across WAN, LAN, contribution networks, routing, switching, QoS, multicast, and high-capacity media connectivity.
- Operate and optimize on-premise data centers, hybrid cloud infrastructure, enterprise virtualization, containerized environments, compute, storage, and related platforms.
- Manage infrastructure lifecycle activities, including upgrades, capacity planning, patching, migrations, integrations, and technology refreshes.
- Implement approved architecture and security standards in partnership with Media Architecture, Network Engineering, and Information Security.
- Ensure infrastructure supports high-throughput, low-latency media workflows and enterprise data distribution.
Resiliency and Disaster Recovery
- Implement and maintain disaster recovery, business continuity, redundancy, failover, and resiliency capabilities.
- Conduct readiness testing and ensure recovery procedures are documented, current, and operationally viable.
- Identify single points of failure and lead remediation efforts.
- Partner with architecture and security teams to ensure resiliency requirements are incorporated into new implementations and major upgrades.
Project and Program Delivery
- Partner with the PMO and Critical Response teams to deliver technology upgrades, expansions, migrations, integrations, and operational improvements.
- Translate approved architecture and technical requirements into executable engineering plans.
- Manage dependencies, technical risks, resource requirements, milestones, and operational readiness.
- Ensure projects are delivered on time, within budget, and with appropriate testing, documentation, training, and support plans.
- Coordinate production cutovers and post-implementation support.
Performance Management and Optimization
- Establish operational KPIs and service-level measures for availability, reliability, capacity, latency, incident response, and recovery.
- Optimize monitoring, alerting, and alarming systems to reduce noise and improve response effectiveness.
- Use performance data and operational trends to identify risks, capacity needs, and improvement opportunities.
- Drive continuous improvement across engineering processes, tools, and support models.
Vendor and Service Management
- Manage operational relationships with key technology vendors and service providers.
- Monitor vendor performance against service-level expectations.
- Coordinate escalations, technical support, maintenance, and issue resolution.
- Partner with Architecture and Procurement teams to validate technical requirements and support vendor evaluations.
Documentation and Compliance
- Maintain accurate documentation for network, infrastructure, broadcast, transmission, security, and recovery environments.
- Ensure engineering procedures align with applicable industry standards, regulatory requirements, security policies, and internal controls.
- Maintain current system diagrams, runbooks, asset information, configuration records, recovery procedures, and support documentation.
- Support operational audits, compliance reviews, and risk assessments.
Leadership and Talent Development
- Lead and develop a high-performing engineering organization supporting complex, highly available media environments.
- Establish clear team structures, accountabilities, operating rhythms, and performance expectations.
- Mentor engineering leaders and technical talent.
- Build a culture of operational excellence, accountability, collaboration, learning, and continuous improvement.
- Partner with cross-functional teams to define requirements, manage expectations, and deliver reliable solutions.
Cross-Functional Partnership
- Partner closely with the VP, Media Technology Architecture to execute approved technical strategies and standards.
- Collaborate with Network Engineering, Information Security, Broadcast Operations, Media Services, Digital Platforms, News, Local Production, and Transmission teams.
- Provide engineering input into architecture decisions based on operational requirements, reliability, supportability, and total cost of ownership.
- Serve as the engineering voice during technology planning, implementation, and operational readiness reviews.
Continuous Improvement and Innovation
- Evaluate emerging technologies for operational value, reliability, supportability, and compatibility with the FOX media environment.
- Drive adoption of tools, frameworks, and methodologies that improve engineering effectiveness and standardize deployment procedures.
- Maintain backward compatibility while modernizing technology platforms and operating practices.
- Identify opportunities to improve automation, observability, resiliency, and engineering productivity.
What You Will Need
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Telecommunications, or a related field, or equivalent executive experience.
- 15+ years of progressive experience in media technology, broadcast engineering, enterprise infrastructure, or related environments.
- At least 5 years of senior leadership experience managing engineering or technology operations teams.
- Proven experience leading engineering implementation and operational support for large-scale broadcast or media technology environments.
- Demonstrated experience implementing and operating SMPTE ST 2110 uncompressed IP video production systems.
- Deep expertise in enterprise networking, including routing, switching, QoS, multicast, WAN, LAN, and contribution networks.
- Strong experience with on-premise data centers, hybrid cloud infrastructure, virtualization, compute, storage, and containerized environments.
- Experience leading disaster recovery, resiliency, high availability, incident response, and business continuity programs.
- Experience supporting news gathering, live production, post-production, playout, master control, station automation, transmission, OTT, streaming, or OTA delivery environments.
- Strong project and program management skills focused on implementation, operational readiness, and reliability.
- Experience managing technology vendors, service providers, escalations, and service-level performance.
- Knowledge of DCIM, CMDB, IPAM, monitoring, observability, and infrastructure management systems.
- Executive presence and the ability to communicate complex technical matters clearly to senior stakeholders.
- Demonstrated ability to lead teams through complex technical transformations while maintaining operational stability.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced, 24/7 media environment.
- Occasional domestic travel, up to 25%.
We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with applicable law.
Pursuant to state and local pay disclosure requirements, the pay rate/range for this role, with final offer amount dependent on education, skills, experience, and location is $247,000.00-288,000.00 annually. This role is also eligible for an annual discretionary bonus, various benefits, including medical/dental/vision, insurance, a 401(k) plan, paid time off, and other benefits in accordance with applicable plan documents. Benefits for Union represented employees will be in accordance with the applicable collective bargaining agreement.
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