Content Security Architect

Why Join DAZN?

Joining DAZN as a Content Security Architect means playing a critical role in safeguarding the future of live sports streaming. With DAZN broadcasting premium global rights across football, boxing, basketball, and more, protecting our content against piracy and unauthorized access is essential to our success. In this role, you’ll be at the cutting edge of streaming technology and cybersecurity, implementing innovative security solutions that keep millions of fans connected to the action. This is your opportunity to work in a fast-paced environment where technology, sport, and security intersect. You’ll collaborate with world-class teams across engineering, product, and legal, ensuring our platform remains safe, compliant, and resilient. If you’re motivated by big challenges and want to protect the most valuable sports content in the world, this is the place to do it.

The Role

As Content Security Architect, you will lead the design, implementation, and evolution of DAZN’s streaming security architecture. Your expertise will help us maintain world-class content protection standards, ensuring fans enjoy seamless access while rights holders have confidence in our platform. You’ll be responsible for integrating DRM systems, securing media protocols, deploying anti-piracy measures, and shaping DAZN’s approach to video security. This role demands a balance of strategic vision and hands-on technical skills, as you’ll be expected to both define long-term frameworks and respond quickly to emerging threats. Working closely with cross-functional teams, you’ll embed security into every stage of the development lifecycle, from design through to delivery. Your leadership in this space will be pivotal in ensuring DAZN continues to set the benchmark for safe, secure, and reliable sports streaming worldwide.

Department

61-681 - Technology Operations - Delivery & Strategic Programmes : 300000110044785

Employment Type

Permanent

Location

UK - London

Workplace type

Fully remote

What You'll Be Doing:

• Implement and manage DRM systems (e.g., Widevine, FairPlay, PlayReady) across web, mobile, smart TV, and connected devices.
• Design and monitor secure media delivery using protocols such as HLS, MPEG-DASH, RTMP, and CMAF.
• Deploy watermarking, token-based authentication, and forensic tracking tools to combat piracy.
• Ensure robust encryption, access control, and secure key management for all streaming assets.
• Monitor streaming environments for anomalies, leading incident response and coordinating with internal and external teams.
• Ensure compliance with industry standards and regulations (GDPR, SOC 2, ISO 27001, studio requirements).
• Collaborate with engineering, product, DevOps, and legal to integrate security best practices.
• Build automation tools for monitoring, penetration testing, and vulnerability assessments.

What You'll Bring:

• Previous experience in video streaming security or content protection.
• Expertise in DRM systems and secure video delivery at scale.
• Strong knowledge of encryption, tokenization, secure key exchange, and TLS.
• Familiarity with CDNs, media servers, and edge security techniques.
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and media services (MediaConvert, CloudFront).
• Proficiency with security tools (Burp Suite, Wireshark, Snyk) and scripting languages (Python, Bash).
• Certifications such as CISSP, CEH, or CCSP are desirable.
• Experience working with studios, OTT platforms, or live sports streaming.
• Knowledge of watermarking vendors (e.g., NAGRA, Verimatrix) and anti-piracy ecosystems.
• Familiarity with microservices security and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).

Benefits

Benefits include access to DAZN, 25 days’ annual leave (increasing by 3 days after 3 years), private medical insurance, life assurance, pension contributions up to 5%, family friendly community including enhanced parental leave, electric vehicle benefit option, free access for you and one other to our workplace mental health platform app (Unmind), learning and development resources, opportunity for flexible working, and access to our internal speaker series and events.

About DAZN

At DAZN, we bring ambition to life. We are innovators, game-changers and pioneers. So, if you want to push boundaries and make an impact, DAZN is the place to be. 

As part of our team, you'll have the opportunity to make your mark and the power to make change happen. We're doing things no-one has done before, giving fans and customers access to sport anytime, anywhere. We're using world-class technology to transform sports and revolutionise the industry and we're not going to stop. 

DAZN VALUES – THE ‘HOW’ IN WHAT WE DO:  

Agility and creativity fuel growth and innovation, to Make It Happen. 

Prioritising what matters drives progress and positive outcomes, Focusing On Impact. 

Collective ambition builds optimism and success, in order to Win As One. 

At DAZN, we are committed to fostering an inclusive environment that values equality and diversity, where everyone can contribute and have their voices heard. This means hiring and developing talent across all races, ethnicities, religions, age groups, sexual orientations, gender identities and abilities. 

Everyone has the opportunity to make change and impact our DEI journey by joining our ERGs: Proud@DAZN, Women@DAZN, Disability@DAZN and ParentZone.

If you’d like to include a cover letter with your application, please feel free to. Please do not feel you need to apply with a photo or disclose any other information that is not related to your professional experience.

Our aim is to make our hiring processes as accessible for everyone as possible, including providing adjustments for interviews where we can.

We look forward to hearing from you.