Senior Broadcast Engineer

Christy Media Solutions is working with a leading broadcast services organisation that is looking to appoint a Senior Broadcast Engineer to join its established engineering team in London.

This position offers the opportunity to work across a broad range of broadcast and media technologies, supporting both project delivery and operational services. The role combines hands-on engineering with customer-facing technical support and will play an important part in maintaining and enhancing critical broadcast infrastructure.

Key Responsibilities

• Build, configure, test and implement broadcast, media and IP systems.
• Support contribution, distribution, compression, monitoring and control platforms.
• Deliver engineering projects for both customers and internal stakeholders.
• Act as a senior escalation point for complex technical issues.
• Participate in an engineering on-call rota supporting critical services.
• Work closely with engineering, network, IT, security and operational teams.
• Support technical discussions with customers and stakeholders.
• Produce technical documentation and contribute to service improvements.

Requirements

• Strong background in broadcast and media systems engineering.
• Experience supporting broadcast infrastructure and IP-based media workflows.
• Knowledge of encoding, decoding and compression technologies.
• Experience troubleshooting live broadcast environments.
• Familiarity with resilient media architectures and operational support.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.

Desirable Experience

• Cloud or hybrid media environments.
• Live event delivery experience.
• Exposure to technologies such as Nevion/VideoIPath, Ateme, Techex Edge or TAG Monitoring.)

If you are a broadcast engineer looking for the next step in your career and would like to work within a highly experienced engineering environment supporting critical broadcast services, we would be interested in hearing from you.