Digital, Production & Venue Support Network & Systems Manager

Guildhall School of Music & Drama; Greater London; On-site; GBP 46,000 - 51,000; Full time

Job summary

Guildhall School of Music & Drama is seeking a DPVS Network & Systems Manager to oversee the live production, recording, broadcasting and AV networks across studios, theatres and teaching spaces. The role combines hands-on diagnostics, documentation and long-term system ownership to ensure resilient, scalable workflows for concerts, performances and teaching.

You will work with engineers, academic staff and students to develop production workflows, while maintaining day-to-day operations and

Qualifications

• Substantial experience with professional audio, video or broadcast systems.
• Strong understanding of IP networking in media environments.
• Experience with Dante, NDI and network administration.

Responsibilities

• Take day-to-day operational responsibility for the School’s recording, broadcast and AV networks.
• Collaborate with Recording & AV engineers, venue teams, academic departments and IT colleagues to support productions and teaching.
• Influence how the infrastructure develops over the coming years and build resilient, scalable workflows.

Skills

IP networking

Broadcast/AV systems

Network administration

Dante

NDI

Education

Cisco CCNA certification

Tools

Dante

NDI

Job description

The role

As DPVS Network & Systems Manager, you will take day-to-day operational responsibility for the School’s specialist recording, broadcast and audio-visual systems and networks. That includes a large low-latency audio network, Dante Domain Manager, NDI video distribution, networked recording systems, specialist software, and the increasingly complex infrastructure that connects our studios, concert halls, theatres, teaching rooms and production spaces.

You will be somebody who enjoys getting beneath the surface of a system: diagnosing problems properly, understanding why something behaves the way it does, documenting it, improving it and making it more resilient. Just as importantly, this is not an IT role sitting at a distance from the work. You will be part of a busy, vibrant technical department supporting concerts, theatre productions, recording sessions, broadcasts, teaching, research and student-led work every day. You might spend one morning investigating multicast behaviour or a Dante clocking issue and the afternoon working with engineers, academics or students to develop a completely new production workflow. You will work closely with our Recording & AV engineers, venue teams, academic departments and the School’s central IT colleagues, and will have considerable scope to influence how our infrastructure develops in the coming years.

Who we are looking for

We are deliberately interested in people from a wide range of technical backgrounds.

Perhaps you are currently a systems engineer in broadcast or live production and would like to bring that experience into a role with greater continuity, where you can build, refine and take long-term ownership of the systems you work with. Perhaps you have spent years touring and are looking for a little more routine without losing the technical complexity, live performance environment and sense of occasion that attracted you to the industry in the first place.

You might be a broadcast systems engineer, studio technical manager, media-network specialist, AV systems engineer, or someone working in higher education who wants to operate at a much greater technical scale.

We are less interested in where you learned your skills than in what you can do with them.

You will need substantial experience of professional audio, video or broadcast systems and a strong understanding of IP networking in a media environment. Experience with technologies such as Dante, NDI, and network administration will be particularly valuable, as will an understanding of recording studios, production workflows and integrated AV systems.

Knowledge of emerging media-over-IP technologies including ST 2110 would be very welcome. A networking qualification such as CCNA would be useful, but equivalent professional experience is equally welcome.

You should also be comfortable working with young people.

Closing date: Monday 5 October, 12 noon.

Interviews to be held: Week commencing Monday 12 October 2026

Please note that late applications will not be accepted.Please note that this vacancy may close early if we receive a high volume of applications.

£45,650 to £50,860 per annum (including Inner London Weighting)