Friday, January 08, 2010

Starz Entertainment - Systems Engineer, Business Intelligence Architect

Our very competitive benefits package includes medical, dental, vision, paid vacations and holidays, 401 (k) with generous company match, cable discount and tuition reimbursement.

Starz Entertainment, LLC, is a premium movie service provider operating in the United States. It offers 16 movie channels including the flagship Starz® and Encore® brands with approximately 17.3 million and 30.7 million subscribers respectively. Starz Entertainment airs more than 1,000 movies per month across its pay TV channels and offers advanced services including Starz HD, Encore HD, Starz On Demand, Encore On Demand, MoviePlex On Demand, Starz HD On Demand, Encore HD On Demand, MoviePlex HD On Demand, and Starz Play.

Starz Entertainment (www.starz.com) is an operating unit of Starz, LLC, which is a controlled subsidiary of Liberty Media Corporation, and is attributed to Liberty Entertainment Group, a tracking stock group of Liberty Media Corporation.

Primary Responsibility: The System Engineer is responsible for the engineering, design, daily administration, documentation, and compliance of all servers in the infrastructure.

Primary Responsibility: The System Engineer is responsible for the engineering, design, daily administration, documentation, and compliance of all servers in the infrastructure.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

· Design, support and maintain the Starz server environment including Windows, UNIX, Linux, and Macintosh platforms.

· Support other departments with solution design, architecture and engineering as well as supporting remote infrastructure.

· Maintain service levels with customers through servicing of trouble tickets.

· Write and maintain documentation, policies, and procedures.

· Responsible for the engineering, design, daily administration, documentation, and compliance of all servers in the infrastructure.

· Perform the daily administration of server environments including monitoring and auditing.

· Ensure compliance of server environment management in accordance with applicable policies and procedures, including Sarbanes-Oxley.

Education, Knowledge, and Experience:

· Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field; Minimum seven years IT experience with a minimum of five years in a systems environment; Technical certifications preferred; and/or combination of education and experience. Three years experience providing on-call technical support and shift work support and performing troubleshooting activities in an enterprise environment. Experience creating and setting processes in place for corporate infrastructure. Experience managing a highly virtual environment, preferably with VMWare; Experience supporting operational processes and procedures to maximize the availability and efficiency of enterprise server environments. Server engineering experience including specifying and designing highly resilient infrastructure to support enterprise services.

· Experience with ITIL best practices.

· Excellent analytical and strategic thinking skills.

· Strong judgment and problem analysis techniques.

· Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and handle multiple projects.

· Strong organizational skills and proficient in establishing priorities and the ability to develop clear and precise documentation.

· Experience in a Broadcast environment desirable but not required.

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Business Intelligence Architect/Analyst

COMPANY INFORMATION:

Our very competitive benefits package includes medical, dental, vision, paid vacations and holidays, 401 (k) with generous company match, cable discount and tuition reimbursement.

Starz Entertainment, LLC, is a premium movie service provider operating in the United States. It offers 16 movie channels including the flagship Starz® and Encore® brands with approximately 17.3 million and 30.7 million subscribers respectively. Starz Entertainment airs more than 1,000 movies per month across its pay TV channels and offers advanced services including Starz HD, Encore HD, Starz On Demand, Encore On Demand, MoviePlex On Demand, Starz HD On Demand, Encore HD On Demand, MoviePlex HD On Demand, and Starz Play.

Starz Entertainment (www.starz.com) is an operating unit of Starz, LLC, which is a controlled subsidiary of Liberty Media Corporation, and is attributed to Liberty Entertainment Group, a tracking stock group of Liberty Media Corporation.

Primary Responsibility: Responsible for developing, customizing, maintaining troubleshooting and implementing reports for third party in-house applications for Starz Entertainment and Liberty Media.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

· Develop reporting data models and efficient SQL statements to access data from Sybase ASE, Sybase IQ, and MS SQL databases and develop reports in Cognos BI to meet business requirements.

· Develop customer relationships with internal customers to determine reporting requirements stemming from possible upgrades, integration, and general support.

· Analyze and provide requirements to transform data into a variety of contexts.

· Manage Cognos, cube generation, and report publishing.

· Demonstrate a full understanding of the Fact/Dimension data warehouse design model, including star and snowflake design methods.

· Responsible for ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) processes to bring data from multiple sources into a single warehouse environment.

· Analyze data from multiple data sources and develop a process to integrate the data into a single but consistent view.

· Quickly analyze complex data patterns in order to establish technical solutions to resolve data issues.

· Coordinate the efforts of many technical resources to ensure the solution is implemented timely and precisely.

· Develop standards and processes to ensure the successful operational support required to ensure daily reporting information is timely and accurate, so that day-day-business decisions can be made by the executive staff.

· Responsible for fully documenting the data warehouse environment and operational components.

Education, Knowledge, and Experience:

· Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field is preferred, minimum of 4 years related IT experience, minimum of 2 years reports development experience; or equivalent combination of education and experience.

· Cognos experience required.

· Sybase ASE, Sybase IQ and/or Microsoft SQL Server experience required.

· Knowledge of Microsoft Operating Systems and Web-based architecture preferred.