Senior Broadcast Systems Engineer

Why Join DAZN?

Joining DAZN means becoming part of a global sports media pioneer that’s redefining how fans watch the games they love. From Serie A in Italy to the Bundesliga in Germany and world-class boxing events across the globe, we bring the biggest sports to the biggest markets. Available in over 150 countries, DAZN has grown at incredible speed since its launch in 2016 — and we’re only getting started. As part of our broadcast technology team in Leeds, you’ll work on systems that deliver thousands of live events to millions of viewers worldwide. This is a rare opportunity to combine cutting-edge broadcast engineering, sports passion, and problem-solving to help shape the future of global sports streaming.

The Role

 As Senior Broadcast Systems Engineer, you will be DAZN’s subject matter expert in the design, deployment, and optimisation of the broadcast systems that power our global operations. You’ll play a key role in both on-premises infrastructure at our Leeds broadcast centre and in cloud-based deployments, ensuring seamless integration, scalability, and performance. With DAZN’s rapid expansion, you’ll lead the evolution and automation of our systems to meet growing demands without scaling linearly, ensuring efficiency and resilience at every stage. You’ll collaborate closely with engineering, operations, and product teams to orchestrate public cloud workflows, optimise system efficiency, and future-proof our broadcast technology. This is a role for an innovative engineer who combines technical expertise with strategic vision for the future of broadcasting.

Department

61-155 - Broadcast - Broadcast Engineering

Employment Type

Permanent

Location

UK - Leeds

Workplace type

Hybrid

What You'll Be Doing:

• Design and configuration of the systems that underpin the DAZN broadcast workflows and meet project requirements. 
• Work with other teams to test solutions and agree workflows 
• Lead system acceptance test planning and execution. 
• Lead documentation and wargaming on systems you create. 
• Act as our subject matter expert in our migration to cloud and hybrid cloud environments and system automation. 
• Shape the software products we use, adding features our teams need

What You'll Bring:

• Proven track record in broadcast engineering within a modern, live sports environment.
• Strong expertise in both on-premises and cloud-based broadcast systems.
• Ability to design and implement scalable, efficient workflows.
• Familiarity with orchestration, automation, and optimisation of media systems.
• Excellent problem-solving and collaboration skills.
• Experience of working with AWS would be great

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.