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Overview

YouView is a TV software provider that utilises set top boxes, streaming pucks and Smart TVs to create the YouView User Experience. YouView’s TV experience is powered by our reliable, resilient, and secure cloud backend, and our unique firmware allows us to control media playback, security and lower-level components. Our platform delivers variety and convenience by combining On Demand with live TV through an integrated editorial lens, which means our users get the best rich and relevant TV content across both free and pay services.

The Role

You’ll be joining a truly full-stack engineering team that designs and builds a range of services and systems that enable automated testing and remote video streaming for televisions and set top boxes. You will also be building and maintaining our on-prem application hosting infrastructure to support YouView’s build, release, and development teams, ensuring the reliability and high availability of our platform. You will be working alongside a skilled team of engineers, applying continuous improvement to our systems using an Infrastructure as Code model.

In this role your responsibilities will be as follows:

• Provision and maintain Linux servers, storage, databases, services and applications
• Manage and improve the continuous integration, software release and deployment processes
• Detect, investigate and resolve hardware or CPU/storage/memory/network issues
• Evaluate and implement solutions to extend our test capability and improve the platform
• Develop and maintain scripts and services to facilitate automated testing

• Collect, analyse and report metrics on infrastructure availability and utilisation
• Manage and report on the inventory of all hardware and software resources
• Contribute to software development tasks

We’re looking for someone with experience with some of the following:

• Proven experience in managing Linux systems with Infrastructure as Code (Ansible, Chef, or Puppet)
• Linux configuration and scripting using Bash.
• Containers and orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker, OpenVZ, LXC)
• Proficiency in a programming language (ideally Python)
• Version control and working in a shared codebase (Git)

Knowledge of any of the following is also desirable:

• Continuous integration with Jenkins or similar software
• SQL and database management (PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite)
• Virtualisation (Vagrant, VirtualBox)

• Monitoring and log management (Nagios, Icinga, LogStash)
• RedHat derivatives (Fedora, CentOS, systemd)
• Distributed storage cluster (Ceph)
• Web servers (Apache, nginx)
• Understanding of software testing, television and broadcast IP platforms

What we value and what we require from you:

• Your background could be from many different domains, but we've found the most suitable candidates from digital content companies, consumer-facing platforms, start-ups, or anywhere that's building out novel, high performance, distributed architectures, and systems.
• You may have previously worked as a software developer or systems administrator and be looking for a role which combines elements of both.
• You'll be a talented engineer keen to hone your skills and influence us to adopt new technologies, practices & services. YouView has ambitious plans, and there are opportunities to develop and progress towards technical leadership positions.

Benefits:

• Competitive Salary on offer
• Annual Bonus
• Flexible working
• Hybrid working model - we require all employees to come into the office 4 days per month.
• Relaxed office environment in the City of London, near Aldgate East station
• Pension Plan
• Private Healthcare
• Holiday purchase programme
• Staff Discount Scheme
• Home Office Allowance up to £400 to ensure you have the right tools/equipment for set up at home.
• Access to Learnably with an individual training budget to support your personal development & growth.
• Cycle 2 Work Scheme - Claim £2500 towards purchasing a bike/equipment.
• Employee Assistance Programme & Mental Health First Aiders
• Generous family-friendly policies

About us:

YouView is an on-demand TV service with over 70 live digital channels. It seamlessly combines seven day catch-up on BBC iPlayer, ITV Hub, All 4 and Demand 5 with a library of on demand television programmes, films and radio. A range of quality content is available via on demand players from Netflix, Now TV, Milkshake!, UKTV Play, STV and S4C. YouView has record, pause and rewind TV functionality as well as a simple search and more.

Our social, supportive team is made up of the brightest minds available, in a truly dynamic business with clear growth and development potential.

YouView launched in summer 2012, brought BT Sport over IP in 2013, an upgrade to 4k and the launch of Netflix in 2014, partnered with Sony to offer the UI for its TVs in 2015 and brought the first UHD device to the UK. YouView launched a major upgrade to its underlying platform in 2017 with an award-winning UI in the UK with a powerful cloud back office providing new data and insights into how consumers watch and find TV.

YouView recently launched the BT TV Box Pro, which is Wi-Fi enabled and has received positive reviews.

YouView continues to innovate and is working with the BBC to trial a UHD version of BBC iPlayer. YouView has won a number of major industry awards including Advanced TV Innovation of the Year at the 2017 Content Innovation Awards and Best Platform at the annual T3 Awards and most recently winner of the National Technology Awards for TV, Film and Broadcasting Technology of the Year.

Find out more about us on our social media:

• LinkedIn & Glassdoor

At YouView, we are committed to creating a work environment where every colleague feels safe and comfortable being their authentic self, while also experiencing a strong sense of belonging that enables everyone to thrive.

We place great value on building a diverse, equitable and inclusive workplace that encourages, supports, and celebrates the diverse voices of our employees, inspiring innovation, and helping us to realise our vision and have a positive impact on society.

YouView is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and we are committed to building a diverse team of exceptional individuals. We are always looking to hire the absolute best talent and recognise that diversity in our experiences and backgrounds is what makes us stronger.

We do not discriminate against any applicant or employee based on their race, religion, ethnic origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, gender identity, marital status, neurodivergent or disability status and it is our strong belief that the more inclusive we are as a business, the better our work will be.

Please advise our team of any support you may require throughout your applicant journey.