Senior Systems Engineer - EXTEND

JOB BAND: D
CONTRACT TYPE: Permanent, Full-time
DEPARTMENT: BBC Archives Technology & Services, BBC Technology & Media Operations
LOCATION: London - Broadcast Centre - Engineers are expected to be on-site at least 3 days a week
PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: Up to £60,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.

BBC EXTEND

This role is advertised as part of our BBC Extend programme for disabled people. To apply for this role you should identify as deaf, disabled or neurodivergent and must meet either the definition of disability in the Equality Act (2010) , or the definition of disability in the Disability Discrimination Act (1995) if applying in Northern Ireland. You’re broadly defined as disabled under both acts if you have a physical or mental impairment that has a substantial and long-term negative or adverse effect on your ability to do normal daily activities. This definition includes both apparent and non-apparent conditions and impairments, and medical conditions such as Cancer, HIV or Multiple Sclerosis.

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PURPOSE OF THE ROLE

We are seeking an experienced Senior Systems Engineer with a strong background in broadcast and archive engineering to join our Operations & Software Engineering Team.

This role is pivotal in ensuring the reliability, scalability, and innovation of our Content Digitisation systems in Library & Curatorial Services (L&CS), media asset management platforms, and long-term content archives.

The ideal candidate will be both a hands-on technical expert and a collaborative partner across Operations, project work and working with our Architecture, Product & Development Teams.

WHY JOIN THE TEAM

Archives Technology & Services is responsible for managing the BBC’s vast and varied content catalogue, with a hundred years of heritage and hundreds of hours of new content every day. We build and operate systems and services to store and manage one of the world’s largest media archives, and to make it easy to find and reuse our content in new programmes. We have great people, world class content and cutting-edge technology.

This is an exciting opportunity to be a part of one of the world great media archives at a time when we are aiming to transform our platform and operations.

YOUR KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND IMPACT:

• Design, integrate, and maintain broadcast, storage, and archive systems to meet operational and strategic needs.

• Ensure interoperability between production, post-production, and archive environments.

• Take part in agile ceremonies, such as stand-ups, retros and backlog reviews to ensure work streams are carefully monitored and delivery needs met.

• Collaborate effectively with vendors, development teams, product managers and stakeholders to meet the business’ technical requirements.

• Provide engineering support for broadcast and archive systems, diagnosing and resolving complex technical issues, monitoring system performance, availability and data integrity across broadcast and archival workflows.

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

ESSENTIAL CRITERIA:

• Proven experience in Linux systems engineering, in the form of a recognised qualification (to BEng or MSc level) or equivalent experience.

• Have a proven understanding of Systems Engineering ideally with experience of broadcast and supporting on-prem and cloud systems.

• Networking (IP, multicast, VLANs) and server/storage architectures (SAN, NAS, LTO, object storage).

• Configure and deploy infrastructure, scripts, orchestration & monitoring to ensure the stability and visibility of systems and services.

• Experience translating project, user and product requirements into technical solutions.

DESIRED:

• Experience with cloud-based storage and archive solutions (AWS, Azure, GCP) desirable.

• Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to manage and prioritise workloads in line with fast-moving business and operational priorities.

• Strong documentation, communication, and stakeholder management skills.

• Experience providing cover in an on-call rota

Disclaimer

This 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.

Please note: If you were to be offered this role, the BBC will conduct Employment screening checks which include Reference checks; Eligibility to work checks; and if applicable to the role, Safeguarding and Adverse media/Social media checks. Any offer made is conditional on these checks being satisfactory.

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