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(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.\n\nThe Role and What You’ll Do\nTKO is seeking a DevOps Lead to own the deployment, release management, and security operations that keep our Salesforce and business-systems platforms reliable, secure, and fast to evolve. Reporting to the VP, Business Systems, this role establishes and continuously optimizes the frameworks for deployment, pipeline, and environment management; and owns security operations spanning observability, monitoring, incident response, and reliability and scaling. The DevOps Lead owns the engineering discipline, automation, and operational guardrails that make delivery safe, repeatable, and high-quality. The role serves as the connective tissue between software developers, security, and IT operations - streamlining workflows and introducing tooling and AI capabilities that accelerates deployments and strengthens security operations.\nThe DevOps Lead will:\nOwn the framework and ongoing optimization of deployment, pipeline (CI/CD), environment management, and release management across the Salesforce and connected business-systems landscape.\nOwn security operations - including observability, monitoring, incident response, and reliability and scaling - ensuring platforms are secure, resilient, and performant.\nOwn security vendor relationships, ensuring adherence to SLAs, monitoring services, and alerting\nFacilitate communication and streamline workflows between software developers, security, and IT operations teams, breaking down silos across the delivery pipeline.\nOwn the tooling and AI capabilities that accelerate deployment, testing, and operational tasks, continuously evaluating and introducing automation that improves speed and quality.\nEstablish branching, release, and environment-promotion strategies that enable predictable, low-risk deployments.\nEmbed security and compliance controls directly into the pipeline (shift-left), partnering with the platform and data architecture functions to enforce standards.\nDefine, track, and improve DevSecOps and quality KPIs - such as deployment frequency, lead time, change-failure rate, mean time to recovery, test coverage, and defect escape rate.\nLead security incident response and post-incident reviews, ensuring rigorous root-cause analysis and durable remediation.\nGovern environments and sandboxes, including data seeding, refresh strategy, and access controls.\nPartner with the Director, Salesforce Platform Architecture & Delivery and the Data & Marketing Technology Architect to align release governance, architecture standards, and quality expectations.\nYou Have These\n6+ years in DevOps/DevSecOps, release engineering, and site reliability, including experience leading practices, standards, and teams.\nBachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent experience.\nHands-on expertise building and optimizing CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, and environment/release management.\nExperience owning security operations: observability, monitoring and alerting, incident response, and reliability and scaling practices.\nProficiency with DevOps and release-management tooling (e.g., Salesforce DevOps Center, Copado, Gearset, Git-based workflows, or similar).\nExperience with observability and monitoring platforms (e.g., Datadog, Splunk, New Relic, or similar).\nDemonstrated ability to facilitate collaboration across software development, security, and IT operations teams.\nExperience applying AI and automation to accelerate deployment, testing, and operational tasks.\nStrong understanding of security and compliance practices, including access control, secrets management, and data governance.\nExcellent problem-solving, critical thinking, and communication skills (written and verbal, for technical and non-technical audiences).\nWe’d Love If You Also Have These\nBackground in QA strategy and test automation, including building automated test frameworks and embedding quality gates in the delivery lifecycle.\nExperience within the Salesforce ecosystem (Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Data Cloud) and Salesforce-specific deployment and testing tooling.\nRelevant certifications (e.g., Salesforce DevOps/Platform certifications, AWS or Azure DevOps, Certified Kubernetes, or security certifications such as Security+ or CISSP).\nExperience with infrastructure-as-code and cloud platform operations (AWS, Azure, or GCP).\nExperience operating in regulated, high-availability, or high-traffic environments.\nExperience in live events, sports, hospitality, or media businesses.\nTravel\nOccasional travel is required for onsite support, projects, leadership offsites, workshops, and training/conferences/events.\n\nPer local requirements and in the interest of transparency, the hourly rate shown below reflects the prevalent current hiring range for this position. Hiring pay rates are based on a number of factors, including location and may vary depending on job-related qualifications, knowledge, skills and experience. The company strives to provide locally competitive rewards packages, which include base rate along with, as applicable, short- and long-term incentives, growth and developmental opportunities, and robust benefits, such as health care, retirement, vacation and other paid time off, and additional offerings.\n\nHiring Rate Minimum:\n$112,500 annually(minimum will not fall below the applicable State/local minimum salary thresholds)\nHiring Rate Maximum:\n$150,000 annually\n\nTKO is an Equal Opportunity Employer and complies with all applicable federal, state, and local laws regarding non-discrimination in employment. TKO makes employment decisions based on merit and qualifications, without considering an employee’s or applicant’s race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, marital status, veteran status, or any other basis prohibited under federal, state or local laws governing non-discrimination in employment in every location in which the Company has facilities. TKO also provides reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities in accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and applicable state or local laws. For information about Privacy and Information Security for TKO employment candidates, please review our Privacy Policy. 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