Broadcast Support Engineer
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We offer additional benefits such as an annual performance-related bonus up to 20%, private healthcare, a company pension scheme, life assurance, holiday buy, discounts at many High St and online retailers, and a comprehensive Wellbeing programme.
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Working with us you’ll get a chance to use skills in traditional broadcast support, as well as a mix of broadcast IT including graphics systems, Windows and Linux servers and Cisco networking. We also have a mix of IP streaming systems, from contribution (Ateme, Titan) and distribution (Zixi, Dolby, Techex). You will also undertake system modifications and small project
s.
You'll work as a Broadcast Support Engineer in our busy Milton Keynes broadcast facility, providing 24/7, 365 support. SIS produce TV channels and live streams for customers in the betting industry. We support a number of galleries with automated production, self-op sound booths, SimplyLive replay, two small TV studios, and contribution and distribution systems using satellite and IP. We also support our eSports (OBS, Elgato) and lottery produc
ts.
The coming year has some exciting changes to get involved with as we finalise our migration of our remaining baseband video channels to IP based systems (GV AMPP, NDI, SMPTE 21
10).The support team works a 24/7 rota in a six-week pattern (which includes a week off), with additional nights payme
nts.
Key Responsibili
ties:
Accountab
- ility:
- To keep the Support Supervisor/Production Staff appraised of the status of any issues, as appro
- priate.To log all faults and irregularities and pass information between shifts using Serv
- iceNow.To carry out first and second line support to all broadcast areas including MCR, Production Galleries and S
- tudios.To assist with in-house broadcast project and installatio
- n work.Ensure system documentation is up t
- o date.Maintain good working knowledge of industry best practice and remain up to date with the relevant technical sta
ndards.
Te
- chnical:
- Ability and competence to evaluate technical problems using appropriate broadcast test and measurement e
w
areness.
Skills and E
x
perience:
- Essential
- A good understanding of the ‘live’ transmission chain in a broadcast
- environment.Good understanding of broadcast systems an
- d standards.Some experience of IT and networking inf
- rastructure.Some experience of video strea
- ming systemsKnowledge and experience of vision, sound, routing, communication and computer systems as they relate to a television studio or broadcast
e
nvironmen
- t.
- Desira
- ble
- CAD skillsBroadcast Engineering background and/or a degree or equivalent in Broadcast Engineering/Electroni
- c Engineering.IP
TV, SMPTE-2110