Systems Engineer

Job Description

Who We Are:

At IMG, our Studios business use content and technology to power the world's passion for sport, working with global clients including The Premier League, The R&A, DP World Tour, Euroleague Basketball and Major League Soccer. We've built Europe's best-connected broadcast centre at Stockley Park, London, distributing 35,000 hours of content globally and creating some of the world's best sporting coverage. Our facilities include four broadcast studios, fifty edit suites and a multitude of radio, podcast, dubbing and VFX facilities, with specialisms in remote production and carbon reduction thanks to our Green to Screen initiative. Whether it's live coverage, archive, highlights, social media, branded content or feature films, we give the audience a front row seat to the best sport in the world.

Systems Engineer

Hybrid - Spitalfields, London, United Kingdom

The Role

The Systems Engineer at Cingularity is a pivotal role that demands technical expertise and innovative thinking. As a leader in broadcast systems engineering, you will be responsible for designing, building and maintaining the complex infrastructure that powers our mission-critical transmission systems. This role necessitates a profound understanding of systems engineering principles, industry best practices and a proactive approach to problem-solving.

By collaborating with diverse teams across the organization, you will ensure the high availability, scalability and robust security of our systems, guaranteeing seamless content delivery to our clients . Your ability to anticipate and address technical challenges will be essential in maintaining the highest standards of broadcast excellence.

Key Responsibilities
• Administer Linux and Windows environments, including configuration, deployment and management of vario us systems
• Ensure maintenance and patching across diverse Linux and Windows environments by building and maintaining an automated systems .
• Design, develop and implement complex distributed systems, ensuring seamless broadcast transmission across various platforms.
• Lead technical systems projects from concept to deployment, meeting schedules and budget constraints.
• Develop performance and security plans for systems that meet the needs of broadcast engineering .
• Monitor and tune systems to achieve
optimum performance levels and ensure data integrity through backups and archive operations.
• Provide input for technical briefings, project planning and implementation.

Technical Knowledge and Experience

Required
• In-depth e xperience with various Linux environments (CentOS, Debian, Ubuntu)
• Knowledge or experience of automation tooling utilising an array of techniques including scripting and tools such as Ansible, Puppet, Chef etc. for future development.
• Experience with systems like Netbox ,
OpenNMS , Grafana, Graylog , ELK, Influx, Data Miner, or other monitoring, logging, and visualization tools is highly valued.
• Experience with high-availability, scalable systems for critical live content broadcasting.
• Knowledge and experience
of networking technologies, including
of the TCP/IP Stack including switching, routing and multicast .
• Knowledge and experience with system engineering tasks and techniques, including system hardening, security, kernel profiling and tuning and package compilation.
• Experience in the design, construction and operation of complex distributed systems.
• Experience with cloud computing platforms (AWS, Google GCE, Azure)

Advantageous
• Good programming skills (Python, Shell, Bash, Perl, Ruby) are desirable.
• System capacity planning for broadcast transmission infrastructure.
• Solid understanding of systems engineering principles, networking concepts (ISP/WAN) protocols, security, Linux operating systems and related hardware.
• Familiarity with video transmission equipment, including encoders, decoders and video routers, is advantageous .
• Proficient in Windows and Linux Systems
• Experience of video and audio encoding technologies and parameters
• Ideally educated to a degree level or equivalent experience.

Endeavor unites and brings people together in our love of sport, culture, and entertainment. We understand this can only be accomplished when we lead with a lens of diversity, equity, and inclusion in everything we do. As a global company that drives culture, we strive to reflect the world's diverse voices.  

Endeavor is an equal opportunities employer and encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, or religion or belief.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-rbb2vo-216-73-216-71-42 in your application.