Broadcast Playout Engineer
Job Type : Contract, Full Time
Salary : £400 – £600/day Inside IR35
Principal Broadcast Engineer – Playout services 12-month contract – West London / Manchester Inside IR35
Description:
We are looking for a Principal Broadcast Engineer to join our client connect the world's media content to audiences everywhere.
Principal Engineers are responsible for the technical infrastructure used to provide Playout and Media Management services, this includes some 3rd line technical support, technical design and project implementation. The Principal Engineer should be knowledgeable of all known issues, planned work and proposed changes in their operational area, safeguarding the live operation by thoroughly reviewing planned work to ensure successful implementation and acceptance into the support operation.
Principal Engineers should assist the Operational support staff, promoting good working relationships and practices within the team. They should also form good relationships with clients, stakeholders, suppliers and project teams as it will be necessary to ensure good communications concerning ongoing problems and project transition into support.
Job requirements:
Incident Management acting as 3rd line support
Identify recurring problems and track trends through observation of the live environment, discussions with technical and operational staff and analysis of incident data. Ensuring all is correctly recorded on the problem management tool.
Have a thorough understanding of the assigned technical platforms and systems, maintaining a roadmap of problem fixes, future developments, training technical staff and refresh plans for assigned technologies.
Project manage small technical projects, project implementation tasks and contribute to the design of new systems.
Ensure any changes to live systems are carried out as per the change management process, this includes project work and problem fixes.
Being a single point of contact to suppliers and conducting routine reviews to ensure that required standards are being met.Skills requirements:
Well-developed leadership and interpersonal skills with the ability to organise and prioritise work and to motivate others to ensure that deadlines are met.
Experience with IT systems as they relate to the Broadcast environment ideally c#/Python/SQL.
Experience in live configuration and SQL/Database upgrades
Experience with MAM automation and playout systems (Morpheus and ICE)
Confident with a range of OS, servers, PC hardware and software.Additional Requirements, Region/Local Specifications:
Role is UK office based in White City, London, with travel to client sites as required.
Ability to work within a team spread across different locations.Everybody is welcome
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