At a Glance
- Tasks: Support live broadcasts and tackle technical challenges in a fast-paced environment.
- Company: Join a leading broadcast company with a focus on innovation and teamwork.
- Benefits: Enjoy a performance bonus, private healthcare, pension scheme, and discounts at retailers.
- Other info: Flexible 24/7 rota with opportunities for career growth in a dynamic industry.
- Why this job: Be part of exciting changes in broadcasting technology and make a real impact.
- Qualifications: Experience in broadcast systems and a passion for problem-solving.
The predicted salary is between 30000 - 40000 £ per year.
Benefits
We offer additional benefits such as an annual performance-related bonus up to 20%, private healthcare, a company pension scheme, life assurance, holiday buy, discounts at many High St and online retailers, and a comprehensive Wellbeing programme.
Job Overview
Working with us you’ll get a chance to use skills in traditional broadcast support, as well as a mix of broadcast IT including graphics systems, Windows and Linux servers and Cisco networking.
We also have a mix of IP streaming systems, from contribution (Ateme, Titan) and distribution (Zixi, Dolby, Techex).
You will also undertake system modifications and small projects.
You’ll work as a Broadcast Support Engineer in our busy Milton Keynes broadcast facility, providing 24/7, 365 support.
SIS produce TV channels and live streams for customers in the betting industry.
We support a number of galleries with automated production, self-op sound booths, Simply Live replay, two small TV studios, and contribution and distribution systems using satellite and IP.
We also support our e Sports (OBS, Elgato) and lottery products.
The coming year has some exciting changes to get involved with as we finalise our migration of our remaining baseband video channels to IP-based systems (GV AMPP, NDI, SMPTE 2110).
The support team works a 24/7 rota in a six-week pattern (which includes a week off), with additional nights payments.
Key Responsibilities
- Accountability
- To keep the Support Supervisor/Production Staff appraised of the status of any issues, as appropriate.
- To log all faults and irregularities and pass information between shifts using Service Now.
- To carry out first and second line support to all broadcast areas including MCR, Production Galleries and Studios.
- To assist with in-house broadcast project and installation work.
- Ensure system documentation is up to date.
- Maintain good working knowledge of industry best practice and remain up to date with the relevant technical standards.
- Technical
- Ability and competence to evaluate technical problems using appropriate broadcast test and measurement equipment.
- Imaginative approach to problem solving.
- Good understanding of video and audio broadcast systems.
- Excellent organisational skills and the ability to prioritise and manage time and tasks.
- Flexible and adaptable.
- Good Health & Safety awareness.
Skills and Experience
- A good understanding of the ‘live’ transmission chain in a broadcast environment.
- Good understanding of broadcast systems and standards.
- Some experience of IT and networking infrastructure.
- Some experience of video streaming systems
- Knowledge and experience of vision, sound, routing, communication and computer systems as they relate to a television studio or broadcast environment.
- Broadcast Engineering background and/or a degree or equivalent in Broadcast Engineering/Electronic Engineering.
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