Senior Broadcast Systems Engineer

DAZN; City Of London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A global sports streaming service is seeking a Senior Broadcast Systems Engineer to design and optimize their broadcast systems. This role involves on-premises infrastructure and cloud deployments. The ideal candidate has a strong broadcast engineering background in live sports, excellent problem-solving skills, and experience with cloud-based systems. Benefits include private medical insurance, 25 days of leave, and flexible working options.

Benefits

Private medical insurance

25 days annual leave

Pension contributions up to 5%

Flexible working options

Qualifications

• 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.

Responsibilities

• Design and configuration of the broadcast systems.
• Test solutions and agree workflows with teams.
• Lead documentation and wargaming on systems.

Skills

Broadcast engineering

Cloud-based systems

Problem-solving

Collaboration skills

AWS experience

Job description

Overview

Department: 61-155 - Broadcast - Broadcast Engineering

Employment Type: Permanent

Location: UK - London

Reporting To: David Christmas

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.

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.