Broadcast Engineer

Volant Media UK Ltd; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Volant Media UK Ltd in Washington, DC is seeking a Broadcast Engineer responsible for building and maintaining broadcast network infrastructure. The role includes analyzing system performance and conducting tests to enhance facility architecture.

The ideal candidate has deep knowledge of broadcast technologies, IP-based systems, and excellent problem-solving skills with over 5 years of experience in the broadcast environment. Strong communication and teamwork skills are essential.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in a broadcast environment.
• Strong knowledge of IP-based systems and broadcast technologies.
• Ability to work in a fast-moving environment.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain broadcast network infrastructure.
• Conduct performance and system tests.
• Collaborate with engineering teams for strategy development.

Skills

Broadcast technologies

Packet/protocol analysis

IT skills

Problem solving

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Science, Communications, Electronic Engineering or related field

Cisco Certifications (CCNA/CCNP)

Tools

VMware

AWS

Azure

Google Cloud

Cloudflare

Job description

Reach Media is a media broadcast service provider based in Washington, DC, delivering international news content across television, digital, and social media platforms. Operating within a fast-paced, automated newsroom environment, we support live news production and real-time editorial content for global clients.

As we continue to expand, we are seeking talented professionals who thrive in dynamic newsroom settings and are passionate about live production, journalism, and broadcast technology.

Broadcast Engineer

Summary

The Broadcast Engineer will be responsible for building and maintaining state of the art contribution, distribution, and routing platforms for the international news studios in Washington, DC.

The individual must have deep knowledge of network principles and Broadcast technologies, Television standards, systems, and all aspects of LAN, WAN and WLAN networks and Network services.

Essential Job Junctions

• Build and maintain state of the art contribution and distribution platforms for the broadcaster.
• Build and maintain cutting edge broadcast network infrastructure for the facility.
• Conduct performance and system tests to continuously evolve facility architecture and infrastructure.
• Analyze dashboards and constantly optimize system traffic, security and identify bugs in the facility.
• Collaborate with vendor product development teams, operational teams, engineering teams to develop long term strategy and implement roadmaps.
• Work with broadcast switches and routers for effective signal distribution throughout all operational areas.
• Work with IP-based network technologies, WAN interconnects, virtual machines, AD domain services, group policy deployment and database administration.

Minimum Qualifications

• Must have knowledge of broadcast technologies, television standards, systems and theories along with strong IT skills and installation of IP based systems.
• Understand SMPTE standards and implements quality control on broadcast center equipment
• In-depth experience and talent in using packet/protocol analyzers, TCP dump to find and remedy application and network performance issues.
• Ability to work alone as an individual contributor, as a technical lead (when required) and as a participant in a team environment.
• Work on on‑prem and cloud‑based storage and compute infrastructure platforms. Ensure technology on site complies with company’s business continuity and disaster recovery plans.
• Lawo audio consoles and broadcast audio systems Lawo VSM
• NDI workflows and IP-based broadcast infrastructure
• Broadcast audio mixing and troubleshooting
• Live production and studio operations
• Other duties, as assigned
• Strong documentation skills, including maintaining signal flow diagrams, system configurations, and technical documentation.
• Providing implementation services related to the specifications, installation, configuration, administration, testing, training and support of high availability network infrastructure.
• Designing IP scheme and network diagram for multi-server environments.
• Create and maintain comprehensive documentation for all implemented.
• Maintenance and problem resolution, operating system patches and software upgrades, and routine hardware configuration.
• Responds to emergency situations as needed for the purpose of resolving immediate concerns.
• Good knowledge of broadcast engineering and IT technologies. VMware system administration for medium sized business with multiple offices.
• Experience with AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Cloudflare and other cloud services providers is a major plus.
• Self‑starter, ideally with business start‑up experience
• Teamwork focused attitude geared toward knowledge transfer within a multi-skilled team.
• Excellent problem‑solving skills
• Excellent people management and communication skills
• Ability to work in fast moving environment.

Education & Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree in Science, Communications, Electronic Engineering or related field preferred; or Technical school training with electronics training and related experience.
• Cisco Certifications (CCNA/CCNP)
• 5+ Years of experience in broadcast environment.

This job description is intended to provide an overview of the position's main functions. It is not intended to provide an exhaustive listing of all of the activities, duties and/or responsibilities of this position and the employee may be required to perform additional functions. Additionally, the job description may be revised by the Company within its discretion at any time.