Senior Systems Engineer

TL;DR

Senior Systems Engineer: Designing, integrating, and maintaining broadcast, storage, and archive systems for a vast media catalogue with an accent on system reliability, scalability, and data integrity. Focus on managing complex technical issues, monitoring system performance, and collaborating with development and product teams.

Location: London, United Kingdom. Engineers are expected to be on-site at least 3 days a week.

Salary: Up to £60,000

Company

hirify.global manages one of the world's largest media archives, creating and operating systems and services for content storage, management, and reuse.

What you will do

• Design, integrate, and maintain broadcast, storage, and archive systems.
• Ensure interoperability between production, post-production, and archive environments.
• Participate in agile ceremonies for work stream monitoring and delivery.
• Collaborate with vendors, development teams, product managers, and stakeholders.
• Provide engineering support, diagnosing technical issues, monitoring system performance, availability, and data integrity.

Requirements

• Proven experience in Linux systems engineering (BEng/MSc or equivalent).
• Understanding of Systems Engineering with broadcast and on-prem/cloud experience.
• Expertise in Networking (IP, multicast, VLANs) and server/storage architectures (SAN, NAS, LTO, object storage).
• Ability to configure and deploy infrastructure, scripts, orchestration, and monitoring.
• Experience translating project, user, and product requirements into technical solutions.
• English: B2 required.

Nice to have

• Experience with cloud-based storage and archive solutions (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Excellent problem-solving, documentation, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience providing cover in an on-call rota.

Culture & Benefits

• Fair pay and flexible benefits including competitive salary.
• Flexible 35-hour working week.
• 25 days annual leave with option to buy 5 extra days.
• Defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care, and gym.
• Excellent career and professional development opportunities.
• Support for flexible working and workplace adjustments, especially for disabled people through the hirify.global Extend programme.