Purpose of Job:
The Media Systems Manager at AEW is responsible for the end-to-end lifecycle of our massive media library. This is not just a "file organizer" role; it is a technical leadership position focused on automation, storage efficiency, and pipeline optimization. You will bridge the gap between Live Production, Post-Production, and Global Distribution, ensuring that every frame of AEW content is searchable, secure, and delivered with minimal manual intervention.
Main Duties & Responsibilities:
- End-to-End Media Lifecycle: Manage the movement of assets from the live production truck through post-production to international distribution, ensuring 100% data integrity and "zero-loss" backup strategies.
- Multi-Tier Storage Architecture: Administer a high-performance, hybrid environment including Avid NEXIS (production), LTO-8/9/10 (on-prem archive), and AWS S3/Glacier (cloud).
- Workflow Automation: Design and maintain "hands-off" ingestion, transcoding, and archival pipelines using API integrations and automated watch folders to eliminate manual "babysitting."
- Metadata & Discovery: Engineering a rigorous, searchable metadata schema that allows creative teams to locate specific matches, talent, or segments instantly.
- Systems Optimization: Audit and consolidate the post-production tech stack to reduce software sprawl, prioritizing the Avid MediaCentral ecosystem to ensure a lean, cost-effective workflow.
- Delivery & QC: Oversee the final technical relay, ensuring all deliverables meet strict schedule requirements and broadcast standards for global distribution channels.
- Other duties as assigned.
Success Factors:
● Zero Data Loss: Maintaining a '3-2-1' backup strategy to ensure maximum data resiliency and 99.99% asset availability.
● Reduced "Click-Tax": Reducing the number of manual steps an editor takes to move a file from Point A to Point B.
● Scalability: Ensuring the library can handle the ingest of multiple weekly shows (Dynamite, Collision, Rampage, etc.) without hitting storage bottlenecks.
Job Requirements:
- Deep Storage Expertise: Mastery of LTO tape libraries, hardware/software storage controllers, and AWS storage classes (Standard, IA, Glacier, Deep Archive).
- Avid Ecosystem Mastery: Expert-level knowledge of Avid MediaCentral | Cloud UX, Interplay/Production Management, and NEXIS administration.
- Asset Management (MAM/PAM): Proven experience configuring MAM databases to handle millions of assets with complex relational metadata.
- Networking & Data Movement: Understanding of accelerated file transfer protocols (Signiant, Aspera) and 10GbE/Fibre Channel networking.
- Cloud Architecture: Familiarity with cloud-based transcoding and proxy workflows to support remote editors.
- Comprehensive knowledge of broadcast and mezzanine codecs (DNxHD/HR, XDCAM, ProRes, H.264/5) and container wrappers.
- You must be local to Nashville or willing to relocate.
Education and Experience:
● 5+ years of experience in Media Asset Management, specifically within a high-volume sports or news environment.
● Proven track record of managing Avid NEXIS and MediaCentral environments at an enterprise scale.
● AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner or equivalent experience managing S3/Glacier storage classes and lifecycle policies.
