Broadcast Engineer

Job Title: Broadcast Engineer

Position Type: Contract / freelance

Location: Central London - on site 5 days per week (tech role)

Level/Salary Range: £250-350

Start Date: ASAP

You must have the full right to work in the UK to apply for this role.

Job Description

A fantastic opportunity has arisen for a Broadcast Engineer to join a brilliant technical team and a world leading brand. In this role, you will support the maintenance, operation, and continuous improvement of advanced broadcast systems. You will be instrumental in ensuring the technical reliability of the broadcast infrastructure-responding to alerts, resolving issues, and carrying out essential software and hardware maintenance. You will also be required to support the business in relation to documentation.

You will also contribute to the planning and testing of business continuity strategies, support system upgrades and workflow implementations, and help document technical processes. The position involves assisting with immersive audio workflows and ensuring compliance with broadcast standards. As part of the operational coverage team, you will participate in an on-call rotation to maintain uninterrupted service.

This is an exciting opportunity to work at the forefront of media technology in a collaborative, innovative, and fast-paced environment.

Skills, Knowledge & Experience

Essential Experience

• Ideally 3+ years supporting and developing solutions in a 24/7 media production, broadcast, or immersive technology environment.

• Proficient in Windows and macOS systems administration for servers and workstations.

• Solid understanding of media workflows, real-time content pipelines, rendering systems, and file delivery mechanisms.

• Strong fault diagnosis and problem-solving skills in complex broadcast engineering systems.

• Familiarity with media-related networks, hardware, and software platforms.

• Skilled in using monitoring and diagnostic tools to detect and resolve issues proactively.

• Ability to collaborate effectively with external vendors and internal partners.

• Excellent organizational and communication skills with high attention to detail.

• Ability to prioritize tasks based on service impact and operate effectively under pressure.

Desirable Skills & Experience

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in broadcast engineering, media technology, or a related field.

• Experience with broadcast and routing systems (e.g., Evertz).

• Knowledge of Dell EMC PowerScale (Isilon) storage infrastructure.

• Experience with Dante audio-over-IP systems and signal routing.

• Familiarity with real-time engines such as Unreal Engine and Unity.

• Ability to script or automate tasks using tools such as PowerShell or Python.

Key Responsibilities

Broadcast Infrastructure

• Support, maintain, configure, and upgrade the broadcast engineering environment to ensure system reliability.

• Provide 1st and 2nd line support for broadcast engineering systems.

• Administer and maintain Windows and macOS-based servers and engines, ensuring updates, patches, and configurations are current.

• Maintain a proactive software upgrade and maintenance schedule, managing licenses and application updates across all broadcast technology systems.

• Troubleshoot and resolve complex issues using a range of broadcast and production monitoring tools.

• Monitor system health and performance; initiate incident responses and implement preventative measures to reduce downtime.

• Support all broadcast and control systems (e.g., video processors, control surfaces, audio networks, real-time engines).

• Collaborate with third-party vendors and internal teams to escalate and resolve infrastructure or software issues promptly.

Stakeholder Collaboration

Monitoring & Process Improvement

Compliance & Documentation

Culture- Actively promote and uphold the organization's values and commitment to a collaborative, inclusive, and high-performing culture.

If this sounds like you, and you would be interested in this contract role, please do share your CV with us asap. You must have the full right to work in the UK to apply for this role.

Sphere Digital Recruitment is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.