Versant Media — Broadcast Engineer (Englewood Cliffs, NJ)
Salary: $111-120K | Score: 8/10
Hiring team message: I:/My Drive/Business/Michael Pentz/Resume/Cover Letters/Versant Media/2026.04.12 Broadcast Engineer Englewood Cliffs NJ/
Strengths
- SMPTE ST 2110, AES67, Dante Level 1 cert
- VLAN segmentation, QoS, IGMP snooping, TCP/IP, multicast routing
- Docker, Linux, VMs/containers
- Real-time troubleshooting, incident response, Jira-tracked RCA
- AutoCAD experience
Gaps
- Soft: No Evertz products (Magnum, EXE, SDVN, VUE, VIP) (preferred, not required)
- Soft: No master control or uplink/compression experience
- Soft: No SONY switcher or VizRT/Ross/Chyron graphics
- Soft: No SDI-specific troubleshooting (resume is IP-forward)
Interview Prep
Versant is the NBCU cable spinoff (USA, CNBC, MSNBC, E!, SYFY). Posting explicitly calls for “IP 2110 environments” as core requirement. All gaps are soft/preferred. Role covers remote production sites in DC, LA, SF. Overnight/weekend/holiday shifts with little notice is a real consideration. Research Evertz Magnum control system basics. Newly public company (spun off from Comcast), benefits may still mirror NBCU legacy.