Engineer - Audio & Video Processing

Engineer - Audio & Video Processing

Location:

Crawley Court (Winchester), Emley Moor (Huddersfield), Newman Street Chalfont – London

We operate a flexible, hybrid working environment – requirement to travel to either our Winchester or London office up to twice a week.

• Up to £54,000 base salary
• Generous pension scheme starting at 6% rising to 10%
• 25 days annual leave
• Private Medical
• A unique wellbeing programme that looks after the whole you
• Access to multiple learning platforms to support your individual development
• Active and diverse networks that build community, support wellbeing and advocate for change
• A comprehensive set of benefits including discounts on big brands, gymflex memberships and paid volunteering leave - see our full list of benefits here.

Responsible for the design, development, implementation, operation, and troubleshooting of cloud-based and traditional Media platforms, with a particular focus on VOD, Cloud Playout, workflow automation, metadata-driven services, and AWS-hosted media solutions.

The role is accountable for supporting, configuring, and optimising media workflows across production and non-production environments, ensuring reliable content delivery, operational excellence, and the successful integration of new services, partners, and technologies.

The successful candidate will combine strong Media Engineering expertise with a solid understanding of cloud infrastructure, software-enabled workflows, automation, and modern deployment practices, enabling them to work effectively alongside Software, Platform, and Product Engineering teams.

• Design, configure, test, and support Media workflows and solutions to achieve maximum performance, reliability, and availability across VOD and Cloud Playout platforms.
• Provide technical expertise for the deployment, operation, and optimisation of Media services, ensuring efficient workflow execution and continual service improvement.
• Design and drive processes to facilitate the onboarding of new services, partners, channels, and content delivery workflows.
• Develop, analyse, troubleshoot, and modify Media systems, workflows, and configurations, ensuring compliance with operational, regulatory, and industry standards.
• Support the integration and operation of third-party Media products and vendor platforms hosted within AWS environments.
• Configure and maintain metadata-driven workflows, XML-based configurations, subtitle services, content delivery processes, and media processing pipelines.
• Support deployment and promotion activities through Git-based configuration management and CI/CD workflows.
• Troubleshoot issues across distributed cloud services, media workflows, and partner integrations, applying a structured and methodical approach to root‑cause analysis and resolution.
• Support engagement with suppliers, vendors, contractors, and customers to ensure service delivery requirements are met and issues are effectively managed through to resolution.
• Standardise workflow configurations and engineering practices to improve maintainability, minimise disruption, and simplify integration with existing platforms and infrastructure.
• Document Media engineering principles, workflows, operational procedures, and platform configurations in line with industry best practices.
• Apply engineering, security, compliance, and operational standards across all aspects of Media platform design and support.
• Apply engineering best practices to deliver solutions that are reliable, scalable, maintainable, and supportable throughout their lifecycle.
• Act as a Design Authority (DA) within Media Engineering to ensure successful delivery of end-to-end solutions and support projects as Lead Design Authority (LDA) where required.
• Work closely with Product, Platform, Software Engineering, Architecture, Operations, and Network teams to deploy, optimise, and support Media solutions.
• Support AWS-based Media services including Lambda, Step Functions, S3, Event Bridge, IAM, and related cloud‑native technologies.
• Assist in the integration and migration of legacy Media systems into modern cloud‑based architectures and workflows.
• Contribute to automation initiatives,…