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Support Engineer

Full Time
  • Full Time
  • Gauteng

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

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