About BBC Media Action

BBC Media Action was founded in 1999 by the BBC as its international development charity. We apply the editorial standards of the BBC, build on its values and often work closely with the BBC World Service and other BBC departments. However, we are legally and financially independent and work to a distinct mission. Originally known as BBC World Service Trust we changed our name to BBC Media Action in December 2011.

BBC Media Action is the BBC’s international charity. In a world where media can be divisive and untrustworthy, we believe in the power of media and communication to do good. Our work reaches millions of people facing insecurity, inequality and poverty with information they can trust.

Location: Nairobi

Job Field: ICT / Computer

Job Introduction

We’re looking for an engineer to work on our media supply chain observability product called Observatron. The product is central to the BBC’s ambition to monitor and report on its end-to-end media supply chain.

The BBC’s media supply chain involves video, audio, image and metadata deliveries which feed a network of national and international services which are consumed by our audiences on tv, radio and digital platforms. Media and metadata flow through a complex ecosystem of products which have extensive internal monitoring data.

Over the past year, the Observatron product has started to improve the visibility around how, and how quickly, our content flows through our supply chain. It does this by collecting and processing events from source systems and linking those events to create data and visualisations showing how individual media assets have moved through the chain.

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We’re looking to recruit a full stack engineer to work with an architect and a product manager to work on further Observatron enhancements.

Are you the right candidate?

Observatron built on a number of AWS services. It uses:

SQS, Kinesis and SNS to receive data.
AWS Lambda, EC2 and Containerised Services to process and convert the inbound events
A Postgres RDS service and S3 for persistence
Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink for real time stream analysis and AWS Glue for ETL workflows
AWS CDK/Code Pipeline for building our services.
Our components are primarily built using TypeScript, but we also have components written in Java and Python.
The observatron UI uses Fastify and Vite

We’re looking for an engineer who’s worked with a substantial number of the above technologies, or who has worked with similar technologies in other cloud environments. You will be the sole developer on the project and as such will need to be confident in your ability to use these services, or pick up knowledge of these services rapidly.

The successful candidate should be able to demonstrate experience in the following engineering skills: