Senior Broadcast Production Engineer - CNN

London, UK: Senior Broadcast Production Engineer - CNN

Job Vacancy: Senior Broadcast Production Engineer - CNN

Location: London, UK

Department / Team function

Media Technology & Operations is a group that is passionate about building and supporting technology to enable storytellers to connect, entertain and inform audiences everywhere. The CNN London Bureau

MTO team focuses on the broadcast and IT technology needs of our CNN partners for newsgathering, programming and digital.

Responsibilities

• Provides expert operational support for broadcast and IT systems in a live, high pressure news environment, ensuring reliability and performance across critical infrastructure.
• Work flexible shift patterns, including late finishes and weekends, adapting to the demands of a 24/7 news operation and maintaining readiness during peak production hours.
• During major technical incidents and breaking news, take the initiative to delegate tasks effectively, ensuring swift resolution and minimal disruption.
• Proactively lead projects focused on resolving technical issues, renewing equipment, and expanding infrastructure, while thoroughly documenting each stage of development. Installing and configuring systems and using advanced tools to manage and interact with production environments.
• Maintain production hardware such as news cameras and related equipment.
• Maintain strong communication with both local and remote teams, sharing knowledge, updating stakeholders, and keeping documentation and ticketing systems current.
• Manage vendor relationships by understanding support contracts and providing feedback to improve the usability and functionality of production systems.
• Support junior staff, especially apprentices, by offering peer training and guidance to foster team development and technical growth.
• Collaborate with cybersecurity specialists to secure broadcast and enterprise infrastructure and use monitoring tools to identify opportunities for technological improvement.
• Organize upgrades within ITIL frameworks and manage technology logistics, including asset tracking and maintaining spare equipment to meet business needs.