Senior Network Engineer, Cingularity

Cingularity is seeking a Senior Network Engineer to design, build and evolve the network infrastructure that underpins the delivery of mission-critical live broadcast and media services globally.

This is a hands-on technical role combining network architecture, carrier connectivity, automation, and operational support. You will play a key role in designing highly available network solutions, delivering infrastructure projects, automating network operations, and supporting a global backbone carrying premium live video content.

The successful candidate will bring strong network engineering fundamentals, experience operating large-scale production or carrier-grade environments, and a passion for improving reliability through automation and modern NetOps practices., * Design and implement resilient network infrastructure supporting global broadcast and media workflows.

• Produce High Level Designs (HLDs), Low Level Designs (LLDs) and technical documentation.
• Design highly available network solutions with appropriate failover and redundancy mechanisms.
• Lead technical infrastructure projects from design through implementation and operational handover.
• Contribute to the ongoing evolution of Cingularity’s global network architecture.

Network Operations & Engineering

• Support and troubleshoot complex routing, switching and transport network issues.
• Participate in major incident investigations and root-cause analysis.
• Perform capacity planning and network optimisation.
• Maintain network standards, design principles and engineering best practices.
• Collaborate with Operations teams to improve service reliability and operational efficiency., * Develop and maintain network automation solutions using Python and modern automation tooling.
• Support NetOps initiatives and Infrastructure as Code methodologies.
• Integrate automation into network provisioning, change management and operational processes.
• Leverage NetBox as a source of truth for network infrastructure management.
• Contribute to CI/CD and GitOps-driven infrastructure workflows where appropriate.

Transport & Carrier Management

• Procure and manage carrier connectivity including:
• Wavelength services
• Dark fibre
• Managed Ethernet services
• Data centre interconnects
• Manage relationships with carriers and connectivity providers.
• Validate path diversity and network resilience using physical and logical network analysis.
• Manage optical network connectivity and link budget considerations across the global backbone.

Security & Firewalling

• Design and support network security solutions.
• Administer and support firewall platforms including:
• Palo Alto
• Fortinet
• Cisco
• Support VPN technologies, segmentation and security policy implementation.
• Work closely with Security teams to improve overall infrastructure security posture.

Multicast & Media Network Support

• Design and support multicast routing solutions within broadcast and media environments.
• Support delivery of high-volume real-time video traffic.
• Troubleshoot multicast-related network issues and optimise traffic delivery., * Dark Fibre
• Wavelength Services
• Managed Ethernet
• Carrier Interconnects
• Optical Transport Networks

We are particularly interested in candidates from:

• Telecommunications Providers
• Internet Service Providers (ISPs)
• Network Service Providers
• Managed Network Operators
• Carrier Networks
• Broadcast Connectivity Providers

• Extensive experience as a Senior Network Engineer, Network Architect, NetOps Engineer or similar.
• Strong network architecture and design experience.
• Experience designing highly available and resilient network infrastructures.
• Strong understanding of routing, switching and IP networking.
• Experience with multicast networking technologies.
• Experience managing and supporting firewall platforms.
• Experience working with carrier and transport services.
• Practical experience implementing network automation.
• Experience with Python or similar scripting languages.
• Cloud networking experience within Azure, AWS or similar environments.
• Experience producing technical design documentation and implementation plans.
• Experience managing network projects through their full lifecycle., * Experience with NetBox or similar IPAM/DCIM platforms.
• Experience using automation tools such as Ansible.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC) experience.
• Experience within telecoms, ISP, media or broadcast environments.
• Experience with GitOps, CI/CD pipelines and source control workflows.

Technologies & Platforms

Experience with some of the following is desirable:

Networking

• Cisco
• Juniper
• Arista
• BGP
• OSPF
• Multicast Routing
• MPLS
• EVPN/VXLAN

Security

• Fortinet
• Palo Alto
• Cisco Firepower

Automation & NetOps

• Python
• NetBox
• Ansible
• Git
• APIs
• Infrastructure as Code

Cloud

• AWS
• Azure
• Cloud Networking Services

IMG is a leading global sports marketing agency, specializing in media rights management and sales, multi-channel content production and distribution, brand partnerships, strategic consulting, digital services, and event management. It powers growth of revenues, fanbases and IP for more than 250 federations, associations, events, and teams, including the National Football League, English Premier League, International Olympic Committee, National Hockey League, Major League Soccer, ATP and WTA Tours, the AELTC (Wimbledon), Euroleague Basketball, CONMEBOL, World Rugby, DP World Tour, and The R&A, as well as UFC, WWE, and PBR. IMG is a subsidiary of TKO Group Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: TKO), a premium sports and entertainment company. TKO Group Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: TKO) is a premium sports and entertainment company. TKO owns iconic properties including UFC, the world’s premier mixed martial arts organization; WWE, the global leader in sports entertainment; and PBR, the world’s premier bull riding organization. Together, these properties reach 1 billion households across 210 countries and territories and organize more than 500 live events year-round, attracting more than three million fans. TKO also services and partners with major sports rights holders through IMG, an industry-leading global sports marketing agency; and On Location, a global leader in premium experiential hospitality.

This role is being hired into Cingularity a division of IMG Studios who are specialists in bespoke live video networking and production solutions. Cingularity operate at each stage of the remote production workflow, delivering quality network designs and primary distribution services to premium broadcast networks and sports rights holders globally. Please follow this link to understand more about Cingularity’s work: https://cingularity.tv/what-we-do/

IMG acquired Cingularity in September 2022 to provide the expertise to guide IMG’s remote production evolution toward a hybrid model of fibre, satellite, cloud and IP. IMG is a leading global sports marketing agency, specializing in media rights management and sales, multi-channel content production and distribution, brand partnerships, strategic consulting, digital services, and events management.