At a Glance
- Tasks: Design and maintain media processing platforms while automating workflows in a dynamic environment.
- Company: Join a leading media and broadcast organisation in West London.
- Benefits: Competitive pay, hands-on experience, and the chance to work with cutting-edge technology.
- Other info: Exciting contract role with opportunities for professional growth in a specialised field.
- Why this job: Be at the forefront of media technology and make a real impact on content delivery.
- Qualifications: Experience with MAM/PAM platforms, video processing, and cloud technologies is essential.
The predicted salary is between 60000 - 80000 £ per year.
We're supporting a major media and broadcast organisation looking for an experienced Platform Integration Engineer to join a specialist team responsible for media asset management, content processing and video delivery platforms. This is a hands-on engineering role focused on integrating, automating and supporting complex broadcast and media workflows across both on-premise and AWS environments.
What you'll be doing:
- Designing, building and maintaining deployment pipelines for media processing platforms
- Automating infrastructure and application deployments using Infrastructure as Code
- Integrating MAM/PAM platforms with internal and third-party systems via APIs
- Supporting video processing, transcoding, streaming and content delivery workflows
- Building and maintaining cloud-native and hybrid broadcast platforms
- Producing technical documentation, architecture diagrams and operational runbooks
- Working closely with engineering, operations and product teams to improve platform reliability and scalability
Essential experience:
- Strong experience working with MAM/PAM platforms and broadcast media workflows
- Good understanding of video processing, content management and streaming technologies
- Infrastructure as Code experience using Terraform and Ansible
- CI/CD experience using Jenkins, Concourse or GitHub Actions
- Experience building API integrations between enterprise systems
- Strong scripting or software development skills in Python, Java/Groovy, JavaScript or Node.js
- Experience working with AWS services and cloud-based media platforms
Desirable experience:
- Experience with serverless architectures including AWS Lambda and AWS Batch
- Understanding of modern media supply chains and content distribution workflows
- Experience supporting large-scale video platforms in broadcast, streaming or media organisations
- Knowledge of containerisation and cloud-native architectures
This is a highly specialised contract and is likely to appeal to engineers from broadcast, streaming, media technology, post-production or content platform environments who enjoy solving complex integration and automation challenges.
To discuss the opportunity, please send your latest CV together with your availability and target day rate.
Platform Engineer in Slough employer: Xcede
Join a leading media and broadcast organisation in West London as a Platform Integration Engineer, where you'll be part of a dynamic team dedicated to advancing media asset management and video delivery systems. With a strong focus on innovation, the company fosters a collaborative work culture that encourages professional growth through hands-on experience with cutting-edge technologies and complex workflows. Enjoy the unique advantage of working onsite in a vibrant location, surrounded by industry experts, while contributing to impactful projects in the fast-paced world of media.
