At a Glance
- Tasks: Design and build resilient network infrastructure for global live broadcast services.
- Company: Join IMG, a leading global sports marketing agency with exciting projects.
- Benefits: Enjoy a competitive salary, hybrid work, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: Work in a collaborative team with excellent career advancement potential.
- Why this job: Be at the forefront of innovative media solutions in a dynamic environment.
- Qualifications: Strong network engineering skills and experience in large-scale environments required.
The predicted salary is between 59400 - 72600 £ per year.
Who We Are:
IMG is a leading global sports marketing agency, specializing in media rights management and sales, multi-channel content production and distribution, brand partnerships, strategic consulting, digital services, and event management. It powers growth of revenues, fanbases and IP for more than 250 federations, associations, events, and teams, including the National Football League, English Premier League, International Olympic Committee, National Hockey League, Major League Soccer, ATP and WTA Tours, the AELTC (Wimbledon), Euroleague Basketball, CONMEBOL, World Rugby, DP World Tour, and The R&A, as well as UFC, WWE, and PBR.
This role is being hired into Cingularity, a division of IMG Studios who are specialists in bespoke live video networking and production solutions. Cingularity operates at each stage of the remote production workflow, delivering quality network designs and primary distribution services to premium broadcast networks and sports rights holders globally.
Working Conditions:
- Permanent, London, Spitalfields, London, United Kingdom
- Hybrid
- Mon-Fri, 9am-5pm
What You'll Do:
The Opportunity: Cingularity is seeking a Senior Network Engineer to design, build and evolve the network infrastructure that underpins the delivery of mission-critical live broadcast and media services globally. This is a hands-on technical role combining network architecture, carrier connectivity, automation, and operational support. You will play a key role in designing highly available network solutions, delivering infrastructure projects, automating network operations, and supporting a global backbone carrying premium live video content.
The successful candidate will bring strong network engineering fundamentals, experience operating large-scale production or carrier-grade environments, and a passion for improving reliability through automation and modern NetOps practices.
Key Responsibilities:
- Network Architecture & Design: Design and implement resilient network infrastructure supporting global broadcast and media workflows. Produce High Level Designs (HLDs), Low Level Designs (LLDs) and technical documentation. Design highly available network solutions with appropriate failover and redundancy mechanisms. Lead technical infrastructure projects from design through implementation and operational handover. Contribute to the ongoing evolution of Cingularity's global network architecture.
- Network Operations & Engineering: Support and troubleshoot complex routing, switching and transport network issues. Participate in major incident investigations and root-cause analysis. Perform capacity planning and network optimisation. Maintain network standards, design principles and engineering best practices. Collaborate with Operations teams to improve service reliability and operational efficiency.
- Automation & NetOps: Develop and maintain network automation solutions using Python and modern automation tooling. Support NetOps initiatives and Infrastructure as Code methodologies. Integrate automation into network provisioning, change management and operational processes. Leverage NetBox as a source of truth for network infrastructure management. Contribute to CI/CD and GitOps-driven infrastructure workflows where appropriate.
- Transport & Carrier Management: Procure and manage carrier connectivity including: Wavelength services, Dark fibre, Managed Ethernet services, Data centre interconnects. Manage relationships with carriers and connectivity providers. Validate path diversity and network resilience using physical and logical network analysis. Manage optical network connectivity and link budget considerations across the global backbone.
- Security & Firewalling: Design and support network security solutions. Administer and support firewall platforms including: Palo Alto, Fortinet, Cisco. Support VPN technologies, segmentation and security policy implementation. Work closely with Security teams to improve overall infrastructure security posture.
- Multicast & Media Network Support: Design and support multicast routing solutions within broadcast and media environments. Support delivery of high-volume real-time video traffic. Troubleshoot multicast-related network issues and optimise traffic delivery.
Essential Experience:
- Extensive experience as a Senior Network Engineer, Network Architect, NetOps Engineer or similar.
- Strong network architecture and design experience.
- Experience designing highly available and resilient network infrastructures.
- Strong understanding of routing, switching and IP networking.
- Experience with multicast networking technologies.
- Experience managing and supporting firewall platforms.
- Experience working with carrier and transport services.
- Practical experience implementing network automation.
- Experience with Python or similar scripting languages.
- Cloud networking experience within Azure, AWS or similar environments.
- Experience producing technical design documentation and implementation plans.
- Experience managing network projects through their full lifecycle.
Desirable Experience:
- Experience with NetBox or similar IPAM/DCIM platforms.
- Experience using automation tools such as Ansible.
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC) experience.
- Experience within telecoms, ISP, media or broadcast environments.
- Experience with GitOps, CI/CD pipelines and source control workflows.
Technologies & Platforms:
- Experience with some of the following is desirable: Networking (Cisco, Juniper, Arista), BGP, OSPF, Multicast Routing, MPLS, EVPN/VXLAN.
- Security (Fortinet, Palo Alto, Cisco Firepower).
- Automation & NetOps (Python, NetBox, Ansible, Git, APIs, Infrastructure as Code).
- Cloud (AWS, Azure, Cloud Networking Services).
- Transport Technologies (Dark Fibre, Wavelength Services, Managed Ethernet, Carrier Interconnects, Optical Transport Networks).
We are particularly interested in candidates from:
- Telecommunications Providers
- Internet Service Providers (ISPs)
- Network Service Providers
- Managed Network Operators
- Carrier Networks
- Broadcast Connectivity Providers
TKO EEO Statement: TKO is an Equal Opportunity Employer and complies with all applicable federal, state, and local laws regarding non-discrimination in employment. TKO makes employment decisions based on merit and qualifications, without considering an employee’s or applicant’s race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, marital status, veteran status, or any other basis prohibited under federal, state or local laws governing non-discrimination in employment in every location in which the Company has facilities.
Summary Location: London - Hanbury St Type: Full time
Senior Network Engineer, Cingularity in London employer: iMG world
IMG, a leading global sports marketing agency, offers an exceptional work environment for the Senior Network Engineer role in London. With a strong focus on innovation and collaboration, employees benefit from a hybrid work model, competitive compensation, and opportunities for professional growth within a dynamic team that supports major sports events worldwide. The culture at IMG fosters creativity and excellence, making it an ideal place for those looking to make a meaningful impact in the sports and entertainment industry.
