Systems Enginer - London, United Kingdom - BBC

BBC

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London, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Technology Systems & Delivery- Permanent - Full Time- London, GB, W12 7TP- BBC PUBLIC SERVICE B'CAST- Job Closing Date: 14/04/2024
THE ROLE:
Package Description:

Band:
C

Contract type:
permanent

Location:
London (Hybrid)

Salary:
£43,000 -£48,000 + London weighting

Our comprehensive benefits package includes:

An employer pension contribution of up to 10%
26 days' annual leave (based on full time hours) + bank holidays and the option to buy/sell additional days
Contributory lifestyle benefit options including discounts at hundreds of retailers, cycle to work scheme, discounted gym memberships and healthcare schemes
Employee assistance and wellbeing programmes
Learning and development tailored to your role this could include industry recognised qualifications, coaching and mentoring
An inclusive and diverse environment with opportunities to join staff networks including: Women's Network, National Disability Networks and many more.
Family friendly flexible working arrangements, such as hybrid working, job sharing, flexitime and compressed hours can be requested.

Job Introduction:

We are looking for a systems engineer with a specialism in digital audio and video encoding and distribution.

This role sits in Media Services, which is part of Digital Distribution. We provide the engine that drives all the BBC's encoding, packaging, and playback for online.

We deal with over 1 billion play requests per month and encode thousands of hours of content every week covering all the BBC video and audio online output.

We are a cross functional, collaborative, and dynamic team.

We value our staff, offering regular training and development opportunities as well as "innovation time" allowing dedicated time for self-improvement, learning and innovation.

We take the time to reflect and improve on how we are working through team retrospectives and individual mentoring.

We are a hard-working team who are supportive and promote a healthy work-life balance. We offer opportunities for flexible working and a friendly working environment.

Main Responsibilities:

You will have a key role helping us deliver landmark events online, such as Glastonbury, Wimbledon and the European and World football championships.
You'll work on the latest video and audio streaming technologies with key vendors and internal teams to help us improve the quality of our audio and video services for ever increasing audiences.
You'll spend time working with 3rd parties, evaluating and testing their digital media products and services for use by the BBC. You'll work with our technical architects and R&D teams to help integrate new products and processes.
You'll liaise with our test teams to make sure improvements work across the board on a huge range of consumer devices.
You'll help us manage the day to day running and configuration of live and ondemand services for the whole of the BBC. You'll be involved in the development and roll out of new products and services for BBC online.
You will have practical experience of audio and video encoding and streaming.
You will have an understanding of what factors affect the quality of online video and audio and will be able to demonstrate how these can be optimised for any given situation.
Experience of deploying solutions using cloud services is desirable.
Some experience of scripting and or programming would be useful, though not essential.
You will be able to work with diverse and varied stakeholders with the ability to prioritise between different projects.
You'll be up to date with developments in the streaming industry and the products and systems in use by broadcasters and streamers.
You'll be good at documenting systems and testing to share with others in a clear and concise way.

About the BBC:

We don't focus simply on what we do - we also care how we do it. Our values and the way we behave are important to us. Please make sure you've read about our values and behaviours here.

Diversity matters at the BBC.

We have a working environment where we value and respect every individual's unique contribution, enabling all of our employees to thrive and achieve their full potential.

We want to attract the broadest range of talented people to be part of the BBC - whether that's to contribute to our programming or our wide range of non-production roles.

The more diverse our workforce, the better able we are to respond to and reflect our audiences in all their diversity.

To find out more about Diversity and Inclusion at the BBC, please click here.

DISCLAIMER:

This job description is a written statement of the essential characteristics of the job, with its principal accountabilities, incorporating a note 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.