Broadcast Engineering Manager

We're Hiring: Broadcast Engineering Manager

Location: United Arab Emirates (Remote)

Employment Type: Full-Time

Experience Level: Mid-Level to Senior

Work Arrangement: Fully Remote

About Us

We are a globally focused organization delivering reliable broadcast, media, and digital content experiences across television, radio, streaming, live events, and digital platforms. Our teams combine engineering, technology, operations, production, IT, and content expertise to build resilient and high-quality media delivery environments.

The Role

We are seeking an experienced Broadcast Engineering Manager to lead the engineering strategy, infrastructure, technical operations, maintenance, and continuous improvement of broadcast systems and media technology environments.

The ideal candidate will oversee broadcast engineering across studios, control rooms, transmission systems, production facilities, outside broadcasts, contribution networks, playout, media processing, streaming, and related technical platforms.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and implement broadcast engineering strategies aligned with operational, technical, and business objectives.
• Lead the design, deployment, maintenance, and optimization of broadcast infrastructure and technical systems.
• Manage engineering operations supporting television, radio, streaming, live production, and digital media services.
• Oversee studio systems, control rooms, master control, playout, transmission, production, and post-production infrastructure.
• Manage cameras, lenses, vision mixers, routing systems, production switchers, graphics systems, intercoms, monitoring, and audio systems.
• Oversee servers, storage, media asset systems, automation platforms, encoding, decoding, and media processing infrastructure.
• Manage broadcast contribution and distribution networks, satellite, fiber, IP, microwave, and other transmission technologies.
• Support migration from traditional SDI environments to IP-based broadcast architectures.
• Establish technical standards for video, audio, signal flow, connectivity, synchronization, and media quality.
• Manage broadcast engineering projects from requirements definition through design, procurement, installation, testing, commissioning, and operational handover.
• Coordinate with production, editorial, content, IT, cybersecurity, facilities, operations, and commercial teams.
• Define technical requirements and specifications for new broadcast systems and infrastructure.
• Evaluate broadcast technologies, equipment, software platforms, vendors, and system integrators.
• Lead technical evaluations, proof-of-concept projects, demonstrations, and technology assessments.
• Manage system integration, configuration, testing, acceptance, and performance validation.
• Coordinate factory acceptance testing and site acceptance testing for major broadcast projects.
• Establish preventive and corrective maintenance programs for critical broadcast equipment.
• Monitor system availability, reliability, redundancy, performance, and technical service levels.
• Lead troubleshooting and root-cause analysis for broadcast failures, signal issues, outages, and recurring technical problems.
• Coordinate technical response to live broadcast incidents and major service disruptions.
• Develop business continuity, disaster recovery, redundancy, and emergency broadcast procedures.
• Ensure critical systems have appropriate backup, failover, resilience, and recovery capabilities.
• Manage broadcast monitoring systems and technical alerting processes.
• Oversee audio and video quality, synchronization, signal integrity, loudness, encoding, and transmission performance.
• Support broadcast automation, scheduling, playout, traffic, newsroom, production, and media-management systems.
• Coordinate technical requirements for live events, outside broadcasts, remote production, and temporary broadcast facilities.
• Manage broadcast facilities, technical rooms, racks, cabling, power, cooling, and equipment environments in coordination with facilities teams.
• Ensure appropriate electrical, environmental, grounding, and equipment protection standards are maintained.
• Manage broadcast engineering vendors, service providers, consultants, manufacturers, and system integrators.
• Define vendor SLAs, support requirements, warranties, maintenance agreements, and technical performance expectations.
• Monitor supplier performance, response times, service quality, and technical issue resolution.
• Manage engineering budgets, capital expenditure, operating expenses, and technology investment plans.
• Develop business cases and ROI assessments for broadcast infrastructure upgrades and modernization initiatives.
• Maintain equipment inventories, asset registers, technical documentation, system diagrams, and configuration records.
• Establish engineering procedures, technical standards, operating manuals, maintenance documentation, and change-control processes.
• Ensure all engineering changes are properly assessed, tested, documented, approved, and implemented.
• Coordinate cybersecurity requirements for broadcast networks, production systems, servers, applications, and connected devices.
• Support cloud-based broadcast, remote production, virtualization, software-defined workflows, and distributed media architectures.
• Evaluate emerging technologies including IP production, cloud playout, AI-assisted production, remote production, automation, and advanced media processing.
• Train and develop broadcast engineers, technicians, and technical operations personnel.
• Establish technical competency requirements, training plans, escalation procedures, and knowledge-sharing practices.
• Provide management with regular reports covering system performance, incidents, projects, costs, risks, reliability, and technology improvements.

Key Performance Indicators

• Broadcast system availability and uptime
• Transmission and playout reliability
• Critical system outage frequency
• Mean time between failures
• Mean time to repair
• Incident response and resolution time
• Signal quality and integrity
• Audio and video error rates
• On-air technical incidents
• Unplanned service interruptions
• Broadcast automation reliability
• Encoder and decoder performance
• Network availability and latency
• Storage and media-system availability
• Redundancy and failover success rate
• Preventive maintenance completion
• Equipment failure rate
• Technical backlog
• Project delivery performance
• Project budget adherence
• System commissioning performance
• Vendor SLA compliance
• Vendor response and resolution times
• Engineering change success rate
• Documentation accuracy
• Cybersecurity compliance
• Disaster recovery readiness
• Technical training completion
• Equipment utilization
• Technology lifecycle compliance
• Cost savings and operational efficiency
• Broadcast quality and stakeholder satisfaction

Ideal Candidate

The successful candidate should have strong experience in broadcast engineering, television engineering, media technology, transmission, studio operations, broadcast IT, live production, or digital media infrastructure, preferably within television networks, radio organizations, streaming platforms, production companies, media groups, or large-scale broadcast environments.

The candidate should demonstrate:

• Strong knowledge of broadcast engineering principles and media technology.
• Experience managing broadcast infrastructure, technical operations, and engineering teams.
• Knowledge of SDI, IP-based broadcast systems, video routing, synchronization, encoding, decoding, and transmission.
• Experience with studio production, master control, playout, automation, and media-processing systems.
• Familiarity with broadcast audio, video, graphics, monitoring, intercom, and contribution systems.
• Understanding of broadcast networking, fiber, satellite, microwave, and IP contribution technologies.
• Experience managing system integration, commissioning, testing, troubleshooting, and technical upgrades.
• Strong project-management and stakeholder-management capabilities.
• Experience managing broadcast technology vendors, manufacturers, and system integrators.
• Strong understanding of redundancy, resilience, disaster recovery, and business continuity for broadcast environments.
• Familiarity with cloud broadcasting, remote production, virtualization, and software-defined media workflows.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities.
• Ability to manage multiple projects, priorities, budgets, and technical risks.
• Strong communication and leadership skills.
• Experience working with international and distributed teams.
• A continuous-improvement mindset and strong interest in emerging broadcast technologies.