Website MultiChoice
MultiChoice Group is a leading entertainment company and we’re home to some of the most recognised brands on the continent. Our entertainment platforms – DStv, GOtv, Showmax and DStv Now – are a hub for more than 19 million people across 50 countries. Through Irdeto, we‘re a world leader in content security, management and delivery for pay-media companies.
Key Performance Objectives
- Platform Monitoring & Incident Response
- Monitor platform health using observability tools (e.g., Truewatch, Amplitude, Bidmovin).
- Detect and respond to anomalies, service degradation, or outages in real-time.
- Escalate critical incidents to engineering or DevOps teams with detailed diagnostics.
- Checking of Live TV and VOD streams for errors, buffering, etc.
- Provide technical support during live streaming events, including pre-event checks, real-time monitoring, and post-event analysis.
- Coordinate with content, operations, and engineering teams to ensure smooth execution of scheduled events.
- Troubleshoot and resolve issues related to streaming platforms.
- Initiation of War Rooms for high priority issues.
- Completion of Technical Root Cause Analyses documents for high priority issues.
- Updates, follow ups and resolution of incident tickets.
Collaboration & Communication
- Participate in on-call rotations and provide after-hours support for critical events or incidents.
- Working closely with all teams, to understand new developments and requirements, and implementation of new solutions, features and new integrations.
- Updating Mission Control group during management of escalations.
- Maintaining communications to stakeholders during management of escalations.
Root Cause Analysis & Reporting
- Conduct root cause analysis (RCA) for major incidents and recurring issues.
- Document findings and contribute to knowledge base articles.
- Recommend preventive measures and improvements to reduce incident recurrence.
System Integration & Component Support
- Support integrations with third-party services (e.g., CDNs, payment gateways, DRM providers).
- Capacity planning with third parties for High Profile Events(Irdeto, Invidi, etc)
- Assist in onboarding and testing of new platform features or partner integrations.
Customer Issue Resolution
- Investigate and resolve customer-reported issues related to playback, access, subscriptions, or content availability.
- Reproduce issues in production environment and provide detailed bug reports to development teams.
- Maintain high-quality communication with customers and customer care teams, ensuring timely updates and resolutions.
Qualifications
- National Diploma IT required.
- Degree in IT/Computer Science Advantageous
- Certification in IT Service Management (ISM) Advantageous.
Experience
- 2+ years of experience in system support.
- Exposure within a 24/7 platform monitoring environment.
- Experience with event management of a platform.
- Experience with management of integrative components (advantageous).
- Incident and Problem Management experience (advantageous).
- Understanding of API’s and Cloud.
- Understanding of the technical landscape within Streaming Technology (advantageous