June 17, 2026
Senior Post Production Systems Engineer
On Site, United Kingdom
Contract
Job Reference: Senior Post Production Systems Engineer
Senior Post Production Systems Engineer
Location: Onsite / Hybrid (UK)
Type: Contract
Start Date: July 2026
We're looking for a Senior Post Production Systems Engineer to join a leading media and broadcast organisation, supporting critical editorial, audio post-production and content production environments.
This is a crucial position, focused on maintaining and enhancing business-critical post-production systems used by editors, dubbing mixers and production teams to deliver high-quality content under tight operational deadlines.
You'll play a central role in supporting Avid-based production infrastructure, troubleshooting complex workflow issues, and driving improvements across editorial and audio production environments.
What you'll do
- Support and maintain Avid production environments including Media Composer, NEXIS, Interplay PAM, Cloud UX and Pro Tools.
- Provide technical support for editorial, audio post-production and dubbing workflows.
- Troubleshoot complex application, workflow, storage and infrastructure issues.
- Support Adobe Premiere Pro users and associated production workflows.
- Manage shared storage environments, workspaces, permissions and media management processes.
- Work closely with operational teams to ensure uninterrupted delivery of time-critical content.
- Participate in system upgrades, workflow improvements and technology projects.
- Monitor platform performance and identify opportunities for optimisation.
- Create and maintain technical documentation, support procedures and workflow guides.
Skills & Experience
- Strong experience supporting Avid Media Composer, NEXIS, Interplay PAM and Pro Tools environments.
- Experience supporting Adobe Premiere Pro within professional production environments.
- Strong understanding of post-production, editorial and audio workflows.
- Knowledge of shared storage, media management and project/workspace administration.
- Understanding of media formats, codecs, transcoding and file-based workflows.
- Experience supporting both users and backend production systems.
- Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
- Experience working in broadcast, post-production, media services or content production environments.
- Excellent communication, documentation and stakeholder management abilities.
If this sounds like you, please do get in touch!
Laurence Hodgson
Senior Consultant at 5V Video