Senior Engineer - TX and Distribution

Job Title: Senior Engineer - TX and Distribution

Job Ref: SE-TD-507

Closing Date: 17/08/2026

Summary

The Senior Engineer – Transmission & Distribution Systems is a senior, hands‐on technical role focused on the delivery, reliability, resilience, and continuous improvement of playout, transmission, and IP signal workflows across the Volant Media technology estate.

This role works closely with operations, production, network, and technology teams to ensure content is delivered reliably to audiences, balancing live operational support with long‐term workflow optimisation across on‐prem and cloud‐based distribution environments.

Responsibilities

• Deliver technical support for Transmission & Distribution Systems, including supporting engineers in your areas of expertise to ensure swift service restoration during critical times.
• Respond quickly to playout, transmission, and signal delivery incidents, making calm decisions during live output.
• Own and support end‐to‐end delivery workflows, including playout, contribution, distribution, and signal monitoring for on‐prem and cloud playout platforms.
• Where needed escalate complex workflow issues, collaborating with internal experts and external vendors for resolutions.
• Perform proactive monitoring, maintenance, and health checks across delivery platforms.
• Ensure compliance with business continuity, disaster recovery, and cybersecurity requirements.
• Drive improvements in transmission and delivery systems, identifying inefficiencies and opportunities.
• Support workflow design and implementation for new delivery platforms and services, including cloud‐based playout.
• Ensure workflows are optimised for live, breaking, and scheduled output.
• Support and integrate technologies including IP, satellite contribution, distribution, signal compression, transport, and monitoring systems.
• Media management and playlist workflows as related to TX.
• Act as a trusted technical partner to transmission, network, and operations teams.
• Promote continuous improvement through feedback, documentation, and post‐incident learning.
• Share knowledge through documentation and internal training.
• Work closely with vendors and internal specialists on long‐term improvements and root‐cause fixes.
• Participate in cross functional Working Groups to ensure effective ownership, delivery and continuous improvement of end-to-end workflows and services.
• Other duties as needed.

Requirements

• Demonstrated experience supporting end-to-end playout, transmission and distribution in broadcast or digital environments.
• Strong understanding of signal delivery and playout workflows.
• Hand on experience deploying IP workflows including SRT, Zixi, AWS Media Live, AWS Elemental.
• Proven ability to manage incidents during live broadcast output.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills across technical teams.
• Experience with cloud‐based playout or distribution platforms.
• Familiarity with IP contribution, monitoring, and transport technologies.
• Experience working with third‐party vendors.
• Understanding of resilience, business continuity, and vendor supported broadcast systems.
• Operationally aware and user focused, with an interest in how operations teams, schedulers and media operators work.
• Proactive, adaptable, and improvement driven in a fast changing play, transmission and distribution environment.
• Rostered Monday – Sunday.

This job description is a written statement of the essential characteristics of the job, with its principal accountabilities, incorporating notes of the skills, knowledge and experience required for a satisfactory level of performance. This is not intended to be a complete, detailed account of all aspects of the duties involved.