Broadcast IT Engineer, Studios

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.

What You’ll Do:

The Broadcast IT team is responsible for supporting and maintaining IT infrastructure at IMG’s Studios facility, supporting broadcast / television production environments.

As Broadcast IT Engineer, you will focus on supporting the current infrastructure and will be responsible for implementing new systems. You will work closely with the Broadcast IT team, Broadcast Engineering teams, Production Services as well as other SMEs and vendors.

This is a very exciting opportunity to learn and develop skills in a truly world leading company!

PLEASE NOTE: This is a permanent role based at our facility in Stockley Park, Uxbridge and requires working onsite full-time.

The working hours are 12-shifts (8am-8pm) on a 7-day fortnight rotating shift pattern as per below:

Week 1: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday

Week 2: Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday

Key Responsibilities Include But Not Limited To:

• Provide proactive IT support and maintenance services across Broadcast and Engineering technologies in post-production and live studio environments

• Analyse business requirements to develop technical solutions

• Document, test and deploy infrastructure solutions

• Carry out security patching of Windows and Linux systems

• Perform troubleshooting to isolate and diagnose infrastructure issues

• Liaise with external and internal system integrators, vendors, SMEs and stakeholders

• Participate in knowledge transfer, documentation and information sharing

You Will Have The Following Strengths:

• Strong experience working as an IT Engineer with knowledge and experience of Linux and Windows Servers, Cisco networks including firewalls, Nutanix, Active Directory, AWS.

• Demonstrable knowledge of Network IT Security

• Experience with configuring, maintenance and troubleshooting Cisco firewalls, routers and switches

• Experience with CISCO LAN networking, firewall access lists, NAT, PAT, VPN profiles (IPsec and SSL).

We’d Love If You Also Have These (not essential):

• Experience of working as an IT Engineer within a broadcast facility

• Cisco Network qualification such as CCNA

• Knowledge of encoding and content distribution platforms

• Knowledge of broadcast technologies and workflows including Avid, EVS,  Zixi, VizOne, Isilon Storage, Aspera, DAM, tape libraries, scripting, post-production, content delivery and VoD.