Devops Systems Engineer

Description:

We offer a comprehensive suite of microservices that power backend workflows, preparing, transcoding, packaging, and distributing audio and video content online. In an increasingly digital landscape, our role is pivotal in maintaining the BBC's relevance.

Our media components are central to BBC's flagship products like iPlayer, Sounds, News, and Sport. Whether you're catching up on EastEnders, listening to Radio 1, or watching live sports, our platform ensures a robust, reliable, and consistent audience experience.

The Media Services team employs cutting-edge, cloud-based technologies to publish all BBC online audio and video content, driving iPlayer, BBC Sounds, News, and Sport. We manage live streaming, catch-up content, and podcasts, handling over 13 million plays daily, ingesting and publishing thousands of hours of catch-up content, and delivering 3-4 TB of new files daily. Our goal is to deliver the best playback experiences to global audiences across various platforms and devices.

The Digital Distribution Media Services SRE team provide the core support and shared observability and alerting systems for the Media Services platform.

Our team's mission is to leverage software/systems engineering principles to enhance reliability through observability, proactive collaboration, and support by developing processes, tooling, and services.

We accelerate product teams by offering preferred systems and solutions, aiding developers in creating reliable products and services with broadcast-level reliability. Achieved through collaboration, our product stack, and best engineering practices.

Our services are vital for the performance and uptime of numerous BBC digital media services, operating across internal data centres and cloud locations.