MCR Engineer
Department: 73-120 - Delivery - MCR
Employment Type: Permanent
Location: UK - Leeds
Reporting To: William Hadfield
Description
Why Join DAZN?
Love live sports? Want to be at the centre of the action on DAZN’s 24/7 global sports streaming platform? This is your chance to join a team that delivers the world’s biggest games and events to millions of fans. As an MCR Engineer, you’ll play a key role in ensuring flawless live broadcasts, working in a high-energy environment where precision and quick thinking are essential. You’ll be part of a global leader in sports media, surrounded by passionate colleagues who are committed to excellence but also know how to keep things friendly and supportive. With opportunities to learn, grow, and progress within the company, this is your opportunity to start or accelerate your career in sports broadcasting with one of the most innovative players in the industry.
The Role
As an MCR Engineer, you will be on the front lines of DAZN’s live operations, managing the smooth and uninterrupted delivery of global sports coverage. You’ll handle the routing, switching, and monitoring of live event feeds, quickly resolving any issues to keep fans connected to the action. This role will see you working a schedule aligned to the global sports calendar, including days, nights, weekends, and public holidays, ensuring DAZN remains live, responsive, and reliable at all times. You’ll be joining a close-knit team where collaboration is key, and where your skills will grow alongside the evolution of cutting-edge broadcast technology.
What You'll Be Doing:
* Manage IP contribution circuits for live sports events.
* Route and switch events using the internal booking system.
* Monitor live feeds and provide first-line support for broadcast issues.
* Work with broadcast equipment including SA, IRDs, AV/RF routers, and more.
* Support satellite delivery, decrypting, and decoding operations.
* Respond quickly and effectively to any operational incidents
What You'll Bring:
* Flexibility to work nights, weekends, and public holidays on rotation.
* Basic understanding of broadcast procedures and processes.
* Knowledge of IP protocols and networking.
* Familiarity with satellite delivery systems and related workflows.
* Experience with broadcast equipment such as signal analysers and routers (advantageous).
* A passion for live sports and an eagerness to learn new skills.
Benefits
Benefits include access to DAZN, 25 days’ annual leave (increasing by 3 days after 3 years), private medical insurance, life assurance, pension contributions up to 5%, family friendly community including enhanced parental leave, electric vehicle benefit option, free access for you and one other to our workplace mental health platform app (Unmind), learning and development resources, opportunity for flexible working, and access to our internal speaker series and events.
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