Broadcast Automation Engineer

Red Bull GmbH; Wales; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A major media company is seeking a Broadcast Automation Engineer to automate and maintain broadcast infrastructure. You will work closely with partners to enhance service operations while ensuring high production quality. Ideal candidates have experience in automation, software engineering, and a background in broadcast standards. This role offers an above-minimum salary and promotes diversity and inclusion.

Qualifications

• 3-5 years’ experience building & maintaining automations in media.
• Experience with public clouds and infrastructure automation.
• Hands-on experience in automating tasks with software engineering.

Responsibilities

• Implement automation for repetitive workflows in studios.
• Manage service operations for broadcast services with partners.
• Ensure high-quality delivery of productions in collaboration.

Skills

Automation solutions

Collaboration

Software engineering fundamentals

Agile principles

Broadcast standards knowledge

Tools

Skyline Data Miner

CI/CD pipelines

Infrastructure as code

Job description

Broadcast Automation Engineer

Wals, Österreich, Vollzeit

Are you ready to automate the future of broadcast? Then this role is for you !

By joining us as an Automation Engineer, in the area of broadcast, you’ll ensure RedBull Media House’s broadcast infrastructure—and the automation powering it—are designed, built, operated, and maintained to meet very high Service Level Objectives and can be easily and effectively used by our internal stakeholders to deliver flawless, high‑value productions, for example the FIFA World cup, Formula 1 or the Wings for life world run ...

In this role, you’ll be accountable for delivering (infrastructure) automation solutions—whether buying or building—that address evolving broadcast demands (SDI today; software‑defined/IP and cloud tomorrow) while maintaining exceptional reliability. You’ll continuously improve our technology services by strengthening observability, driving standardization, and adopting a platform approach that turns common broadcast capabilities into reusable, governed services—raising SLOs and reducing unit costs.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Areas that play to your strengths

All the responsibilities we'll trust you with:

AUTOMATION

In this role, you'll be responsible for implementing automation for repetitive workflows in our studios, master control room, production control rooms, and playout setup. While doing so, you'll ensure that the overall Service Level Objectives, in our case few errors on-air, are improved.

WORKING WITH PARTNERS

As part of our dedicated broadcast team you’ll manage service operations for broadcast services . This includes coordination and collaboration with our external service providers and operations partners as well as software engineering, continuous service improvement, problem management, monitoring and KPI reporting, management of demands, request fulfilments and change requests. You’ll create and maintain service documentation and SOPs. In addition, you’ll also be fulfilling 2nd or 3rd level support when needed, also participating in an on-duty rotation (business hours) shared across the broadcast team members.

CROSS-FUNCTIONAL BROADCAST TEAM

This role is part of a self-organized, cross department broadcast services team within RedBull Media House. As a part of the team, you'll be accountable for the entire lifecycle of all broadcast services and continuously strive to deliver high class productions, live events, linear channels and more to the World of RedBull and ServusTV.

EXPERIENCE

Your areas of knowledge and expertise

that matter most for this role:

• 3-5 years’ experience building & maintaining automations and integrations between services/systemspreferably in the media industry (f.e. Skyline Data Miner or equivalent)
• Experience with public clouds, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, infrastructure automation in a traditional on-premises environment
• Hands-on experience in automating tasks, covering software engineering fundamentals (like version control, merge requests, clean code, testing, and so on)
• Understanding of service levels (SLIs/SLOs) and KPIs, and how to tie them to operational outcomes.
• Open minded (growth mind-set) & entrepreneurial thinking, passionate about the Media World
• Ability to work in a highly collaborative environment and to communicate effectively with internal and external partners. Self-organized (we have an agile setup)
• Ability to recognize complex relationships and present them understandably.
• Approachable (helping others where help is needed) & hands-on.
• You are aware of broadcast standards like SMPTE ST 2110, ST 2059/PTP, AMWA NMOSAct as a Product Owner by creating user stories, defining spring goals etc.
• Don’t be scared to try AI

Travel 0-10%

JOIN THE TEAM

Got what it takes?

In your application we want to see your personal style - what makes you tick and why you think your next opportunity is here with us.

Due to legal reasons, we are obliged to disclose the minimum salary according to the collective agreement for this position, which is € 2446 gross per month. However, our attractive compensation package is based on market-oriented salaries and is therefore significantly above the stated minimum salary. As an employer, we value diversity and support people in developing their potential and strengths, realizing their ideas and seizing opportunities. We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success. We welcome applications from all members of society irrespective of age, skin colour, religion, gender, sexual orientation or origin.