Engineer Media

Description

Engineer - Media- 12 months FTC

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..

Total Package

• 12 months FTC
• Up to 54000 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.

Purpose - 12 months FTC

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.

Accountabilities

• 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 operational tooling and workflow orchestration to improve efficiency and reduce manual intervention.
• Provide technical leadership and mentoring to junior engineers promoting engineering excellence knowledge sharing and continuous improvement.
• Stay current with emerging Media technologies cloud platforms video transport protocols and industry best practices.
• Identify opportunities to improve engineering processes platform performance service resilience and operational efficiency.

Skills

• Media Engineering Strong understanding of VOD broadcast playout OTT content delivery metadata management subtitle workflows scheduling and media processing technologies.
• Cloud Platforms & Operations Practical understanding of AWS services including Lambda Step Functions S3 Event Bridge IAM and cloud-native operational support.
• Configuration & Workflow Management Experience working with XML…