GINX Esports TV is the world’s largest international esports TV channel, reaching over 50 million homes worldwide. We are a relatively compact business, based in London’s King’s Cross. Currently we employ ~30 people, most of whom have a passion for esports. The company is growing fast and the work environment reflects that.

Following the departure of the head of the techops team, we are restructuring and are looking for an engineer with experience in IP distribution over the public internet to become part of the technical operation team, with a view to grow into leadership. Good knowledge of networking, MPEG-TS, OTT, Windows Server at administrator level, Linux, signal distribution and SDI is essential. The role includes installation and support of playout systems, receivers and office and Broadcast IT infrastructure. Knowledge of broadcast operations support (audio, video, lighting, editing) and system documentation (AutoCAD/Visio) are considered an advantage.

Overall Responsibility

Maintain the smooth running of broadcast workflows and infrastructure for worldwide delivery of a 24/7 international linear channel, including configuration and fault finding of IP broadcast systems.

Key areas of responsibility and daily tasks

1. Continually identify areas of improvement within the team and business operations
2. Monitor our SLA levels, identifying areas of weakness and addressing those effectively
3. Create incident & management reports
4. Rota shifts
5. Keep documentation up to date
6. Change management, business continuity & improvements
7. Configure, operate and maintain a 24/7 broadcast IP operation both on-site and remotely.

Term of employment

• Full time
• Occasional foreign travel
• Moderate weekend and shift work

Qualifications (necessary skills and experience required)

• HND, Degree or equivalent in electronics or science with strong IT skills
• MPEG Literacy
• Baseband Video Knowledge (HD-SDI, 4K)
• Excellent working knowledge of broadcast file formats, systems and infrastructures
• Good working knowledge of Windows and Linux based systems
• Familiarity with the Zixi platform would be a plus.
• Ability to work unsupervised
• Strong sense of customer service
• Must be eligible to work in the UK

About you

You will like working autonomously, in a vibrant office, with lots of ad-hoc issues to deal with. We are independent, with some big backers, Sky and ITV among them, and are keen to break new ground technologically and you will want to contribute to making that happen. Our content library lives in the cloud and we deploy edge servers to deliver our six channel feeds to customers around the world, mostly via Zixi. You will work on not only the out-going feeds but also incoming RTMP and other format tournament feeds and live broadcast contributions via LIveU or other means. The next phase of our development will be about expanding our online proposition and you’d be keen to help.

About us

We will make sure you remain challenged and keep learning new things. We are an equal opportunities employer and value and respect our people. Okay we are still somewhat ‘basic’ when it comes to perks, but we as we grow we will add to these. Our organisation is relatively flat and everybody has a voice. This is the kind of place where you can have a real impact.