News Operations Centre; NOC) Trainee - News

Join our dynamic Osterley-based team and gain practical experience in the fast-moving world of live news and sports news broadcasting. This entry-level role offers a structured training pathway, giving you hands-on experience operating, supporting, and maintaining broadcast equipment and streaming technology used to deliver live content across Sky platforms.

You will help support the daily delivery of news and sports news coverage, special projects, and live events, working both collaboratively and independently. The role is designed to support your career development and progression.

This is not a content creation role. The focus is on the technology, broadcast systems, and engineering that support media content delivery. While in-house training is provided, a basic understanding of broadcast technical fundamentals is expected from day one.

Sky News is a world-class news service with a spirit of innovation and a fresh approach to story-telling. Our aim is to be the best and most trusted place for news, reflecting the diversity of our audience. Made by people who dare to challenge. Made for people who want clarity in an uncertain world.

• Become a member of the Sky News Operations Centre (NOC) team who play a pivotal role in the delivery of live and non-live content for Sky News and Sky Sports News. You will be working as part of a team and at times independently.
• You will follow in-house structured training, working alongside various Sky teams to deliver breaking news around the clock. Learning how to operate, maintain and modify the latest innovative technology to deliver news content to our customers.
• Through your training you will have the opportunity to gain a good understanding of a variety of broadcasting and IT systems. Learning to deliver video and audio via a broad range of options including IP, 4G/5G cellular bonding devices, cloud, satellite and fibre options.
• Sky News requires cutting edge thinking to ensure ever changing technology delivers the best customer experience possible. This will require working calmly and professionally in a diverse, fast paced, exciting environment often to tight deadlines.
• An ability or willingness to logically break down at times complex workflows, dive into error logs and system documentation to figure out or escape a problem that you may not have seen before.
• This is a shift-based role within a 24/7 operation, involving some night work. You will need to be comfortable with the flexible and dynamic nature of a 24-hour news environment, including occasional opportunities to work off-site to support outside broadcasts.

• Bring a proactive, hands-on approach to configuring, supporting, maintaining and routing broadcast equipment and streaming devices, helping ensure daily news coverage, projects, and special events are delivered reliably. You will be able to work effectively as part of a team while also taking ownership of tasks independently when needed.
• During training, you will provide technical support to news and sports news teams, including those working in challenging environments, using clear and appropriate communication.
• Diagnose and resolve issues by working logically through problems, identifying root causes, and understanding why something has not worked as expected.
• A good level of computer literacy (Microsoft, MacOS) and a basic understanding of networking and internet streaming protocols.
• Prior educational or work experience in broadcast technology, sound production environment or related industry would be advantageous but not a requirement.
• Although a technical role, a demonstrable interest in news and current affairs is expected.

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