At a Glance
- Tasks: Support post-production and live editorial operations in a dynamic entertainment environment.
- Company: Leading global entertainment and streaming organisation with a focus on innovation.
- Benefits: Competitive pay, hybrid work model, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: Fast-paced environment with opportunities to learn and grow in media technology.
- Why this job: Join a cutting-edge team and make an impact on high-profile content.
- Qualifications: 3+ years in post-production support and strong technical troubleshooting skills.
The predicted salary is between 69360 - 76080 £ per year.
Senior Media Engineer – Post-Production Support
Location
London – Hybrid
Contract
12 months
Pay rate
£352 per day PAYE
Working pattern
Full-time, with occasional evening, weekend and out-of-hours support
The Role
We are recruiting an experienced
Senior Media Engineer to support the post-production and live editorial operations of a leading global entertainment and streaming organisation.
This role will sit within a specialist Post Production Services team responsible for supporting advanced editorial environments, media workflows, file-transfer processes and production technology used across film, television and live content.
The successful candidate will combine strong post-production knowledge with hands‑on technical troubleshooting, excellent stakeholder support and the ability to remain calm in fast-moving production environments.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide high-quality technical and operational support to production, editorial and post-production users.
- Troubleshoot issues affecting media workflows, file transfers, editorial tools and post-production services.
- Monitor automated file transfers, production systems and workflow health through central operational dashboards.
- Proactively identify and resolve technical issues before they impact productions.
- Support footage ingest and automated ingest workflows.
- Provide specialist support for media library, dailies, VFX pulls, conform pulls and review and approval processes.
- Investigate failed or delayed media transfers and coordinate remediation.
- Support live editorial and remote production environments.
- Maintain clear documentation covering incidents, recurring issues, fixes and operational procedures.
- Collect feedback from production users and identify opportunities to improve tools and workflows.
- Partner with Product and Engineering teams to prioritise bug fixes, troubleshooting tools and service improvements.
- Support the testing, deployment and adoption of new production technology.
- Collaborate with regional Production Technology teams and provide local workflow knowledge and production context.
- Escalate complex issues appropriately and manage them through to resolution.
Essential Experience
- At least three years’ experience in post-production support, media engineering, studio or network support, or process management within a post-production vendor.
- Strong understanding of content creation, on-set production and post-production processes.
- Experience supporting editorial or media production environments.
- Knowledge of dailies, media ingest, VFX pulls, conform processes and review and approval workflows.
- Experience troubleshooting complex media, file‑transfer or production technology issues.
- Strong stakeholder communication and client‑service skills.
- Ability to work independently and make decisions in high‑pressure environments.
- Strong organisational, prioritisation and incident‑management skills.
- Willingness to support productions outside standard office hours when required.
- Technical Skills
- Experience with a selection of the following tools and technologies is highly desirable:
- Avid Media Composer
- Adobe Premiere Pro
- Film Light Baselight
- Colorfront OSD
- Autodesk PIX
- Flow Capture
- Aspera
- Remote editorial and PCo IP technologies
- Live streaming and live editorial workflows
- Command-line tools
- APIs and basic API interaction
Candidates should also have an understanding of
- JSON, XML and CSV data formats
- ALE, EDL, FDL and MHL/ASC‑MHL standards
- Colour science within editorial and post‑production workflows
- Local storage, shared storage, SAN and cloud‑storage environments
- Automated media‑transfer and content‑management workflows
About You
You will be
- Calm and solutions‑focused under pressure
- Proactive in identifying and preventing production issues
- Comfortable supporting demanding creative and technical stakeholders
- Able to explain complex technical issues clearly
- Highly responsive and service‑oriented
- Adaptable and quick to learn new tools and workflows
- Comfortable working independently and as part of a global team
- Available for occasional night, weekend and out‑of‑hours support
This is an excellent opportunity for a media engineering or post‑production technology specialist to support high‑profile content within a technically advanced global production environment.
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