Senior Systems Engineer

TL;DR

Senior Systems Engineer: Ensuring the reliability, scalability, and innovation of hirify.global's Content Digitisation systems with an accent on broadcast and archive engineering. Focus on designing, integrating, and maintaining broadcast, storage, and archive systems to meet operational and strategic needs.

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

Salary: Up to £60,000 + London Weighting £5,441.00

Company

The hirify.global manages a vast and varied content catalogue, with a hundred years of heritage and hundreds of hours of new content every day.

What you will do

• Design, integrate, and maintain broadcast, storage, and archive systems to meet operational and strategic needs.
• Ensure interoperability between production, post-production, and archive environments.
• Take part in agile ceremonies to ensure work streams are carefully monitored and delivery needs met.
• Collaborate effectively with vendors, development teams, product managers and stakeholders to meet the business’ technical requirements.
• Provide engineering support for broadcast and archive systems, diagnosing and resolving complex technical issues.
• Monitor system performance, availability and data integrity across broadcast and archival workflows.

Requirements

• Proven experience in Linux systems engineering.
• Have a proven understanding of Systems Engineering ideally with experience of broadcast and supporting on-prem and cloud systems.
• Networking (IP, multicast, VLANs) and server/storage architectures (SAN, NAS, LTO, object storage).
• Configure and deploy infrastructure, scripts, orchestration & monitoring to ensure the stability and visibility of systems and services.
• Experience translating project, user and product requirements into technical solutions.

Nice to have

• Experience with cloud-based storage and archive solutions (AWS, Azure, GCP) desirable.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to manage and prioritise workloads in line with fast-moving business and operational priorities.
• Strong documentation, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience providing cover in an on-call rota

Culture & Benefits

• Fair pay and flexible benefits including a competitive salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week, 25 days annual leave with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care and gym.
• Excellent career and professional development.
• Support in your working life, including flexible working which you can discuss with us at any point during the application, selection or offer.
• A values-based organisation where the way we do things is important as what we do.