Job Summary

WHO ARE WE?

Live Nation Entertainment is the world’s leading live entertainment company, comprised of global market leaders: Ticketmaster, Live Nation Concerts, and Live Nation Media & Sponsorship. Ticketmaster is the global leader in event ticketing with over 550 million tickets sold annually and more than 12,000 clients worldwide. Live Nation Concerts is the largest provider of live entertainment in the world promoting more than 40,000 shows and 100+ festivals annually for nearly 4,000 artists in over 40 countries. These businesses allow Live Nation Media & Sponsorship to create strategic music marketing programs that connect over 1,000 brands with the 98 million fans that attend Live Nation Entertainment events each year. For additional information, visit www.livenationentertainment.com.

WHO ARE YOU?

Passionate and motivated. Driven, with an entrepreneurial spirit. Resourceful, innovative, forward thinking and committed. At Live Nation Entertainment, our people embrace these qualities, so if this sounds like you then please read on!

THE TEAM

Core Data Services team is at the center of Data and Analytics initiative. We are in the beginning of our journey to build and enterprise data platform capable to be a true underpinning of any data needs for the enterprise. Our mission is to make reliable data available and enable value creation by the data community of engineers, analysts and decision makers. Core Data Services team consists of Platform engineering team, Data Engineering, Data Enablement and ultimate owner and operator – Operations team.

As part of the Core Data Services team, the Operations Analysts leads the day today tasked with full ownership and management of the Customer issues posted as data quality and data investigation.

THE ROLE

We are seeking a hands-on Senior Cloud Engineer to join our Data & Insights organization and lead the design, implementation, automation, and operational excellence of our AWS cloud platforms.

This role is ideal for an experienced cloud engineer with 5+ years of deep AWS infrastructure experience who thrives in large-scale enterprise environments and enjoys building secure, highly available, and automated cloud solutions. You will be responsible for the administration, reliability, security, performance, and continuous improvement of our cloud infrastructure supporting critical business applications and data platforms.

You will work closely with Data Engineering, Security, DevOps, and Platform teams to design and operate scalable cloud environments while driving Infrastructure as Code, automation, operational maturity, and cloud best practices across the organization.

The ideal candidate combines strong AWS infrastructure expertise with operational excellence, incident management experience, automation skills, and a passion for building reliable and secure cloud platforms.

Databricks experience is highly desirable but not required. Candidates with strong AWS infrastructure engineering backgrounds who have supported enterprise-scale cloud platforms are encouraged to apply.

You will be exposed to multiple technologies and various levels of AWS experience within the engineering teams and be required to tailor your approach accordingly. Our business is online 24/7, so you will occasionally be required to work out of hours or provide on-call duty on a rotation basis.

What This Role Will Do

Design, implement, and support secure, scalable, and highly available AWS cloud infrastructure.
Design, develop, and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform.
Support and enhance CI/CD pipelines using GitLab and related DevOps tooling.
Implement least-privilege security models using IAM roles and policies.
Support vulnerability remediation and cloud security initiatives.
Partner with engineering teams to improve deployment reliability and developer productivity.
Troubleshooting of database and infrastructure issues on services you provide
Provide input into the design, development and implementation of automation and tooling for data engineering teams to achieve their goals.
Disaster Recovery planning, testing and execution in combination with engineering teams
Share knowledge and skills with other team members

What This Person Will Bring (technical Skills/Competencies)

5+ years of hands-on AWS cloud engineering experience supporting enterprise-scale environments.
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate or Professional certification required.
Strong experience designing and supporting AWS infrastructure
Experience supporting production cloud environments and participating in incident management and on-call rotations.
Strong scripting and automation skills using Python, PowerShell, Bash, or similar languages.
Experience supporting Linux and Windows-based cloud environments.
Excellent troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and problem-solving skills.
Strong knowledge of Database Technologies & Architectures such as SQL Server, Redshift or PostgreSQL
Strong understanding of techniques and strategies for maintaining high availability
Strong experience in automated deployment of infrastructure and applications
Experienced in collaborative development – performing code reviews and automating via deployment pipelines, such as Jenkins, Gitlab CI or AWS CodePipeline
Good networking skills; route tables, Firewalls & understanding load balancing technologies
Good knowledge of log, monitoring and alerting platforms such as AWS CloudWatch, Spotlight, ELK, Prometheus
Good understanding of Security and Compliance challenges and how to reduce scope and increase protection – we deal with PCI, SOX and GDPR on some of our systems
Technical writing skills for documenting environments and procedures
Excellent analytical, problem solving and resolution skills.
Passionate about automation and tooling.

Preferred Qualifications

Databricks administration or platform support experience.
Kubernetes (EKS) administration and operations experience.
Experience supporting Spark-based data platforms.
Experience with Airflow or workflow orchestration platforms.
Knowledge of data lake architectures and analytics platforms.
Experience supporting regulated environments (SOX, PCI, GDPR).

Benefits & Perks

Our motto is ‘Taking Care of Our Own’ through 6 pillars of benefits:

HEALTH: Medical, Vision and Dental benefits for you and your family, including Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) and Health Savings Accounts (HSAs)
YOURSELF: Generous paid time off policy including paid holidays, sick time and paid days off for your birthday, Free concert tickets
WEALTH: 401(k) program with company match, Stock Program
FAMILY: New parent programs & support including caregiver leave and childcare cash, infertility support
CAREER: Tuition reimbursement, student loan repayment internal growth and development programs & trainings
OTHERS: Volunteer time off, crowdfunding network

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY

We aspire to build teams that reflect and support the fans and artists we serve. Every day we aim to promote environments where everyone can be themselves, contribute fully, and thrive within our company and at our events. As a growing business we will encourage you to develop your professional and personal aspirations, enjoy new experiences, and learn from the talented people you will be working with.

Live Nation is an equal opportunity employer. It hires and promotes employees based on their experience, talent, and qualifications for the job and does not tolerate discrimination toward employees based on age (40 and over), ancestry, color, religious creed (including religious dress and grooming practices), family and medical care leave or the denial of family and medical care leave, mental or physical disability (including HIV and AIDS), marital status, domestic partner status, medical condition (including cancer and genetic characteristics), genetic information, military and veteran status, political affiliation, national origin (including language use restrictions), citizenship, race, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding and medical conditions related to pregnancy, childbirth or breastfeeding), gender, gender identity, and gender expression, sexual orientation, intersectionality, or any other basis protected by applicable federal, state or local law, rule, ordinance or regulation.

We will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of the Los Angeles Fair Chance Ordinance, San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and the California Fair Chance Act and consistent with other similar and / or applicable laws in other areas.

Live Nation affords equal employment opportunities to qualified individuals with a disability. For this reason, Live Nation will make reasonable accommodations for the known physical or mental limitations of an otherwise qualified individual with a disability who is an applicant or an employee consistent with its legal obligations to do so. As part of its commitment to make reasonable accommodations, Live Nation also wishes to participate in a timely, good faith, interactive process with a disabled applicant or employee to determine effective reasonable accommodations, if any, which can be made in response to a request for accommodations. Applicants and employees are invited to identify reasonable accommodations that can be made to assist them to perform the essential functions of the position they seek or currently occupy. Any applicant or employee who requires an accommodation in order to perform the essential functions of the job should contact either the hiring manager for the role or a Human Resources representative to request the opportunity to participate in a timely interactive process.

HIRING PRACTICES

The preceding job description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job.

Live Nation recruitment policies are designed to place the most highly qualified persons available in a timely and efficient manner. Live Nation may pursue all avenues available, including promotion from within, employee referrals, outside advertising, employment agencies, internet recruiting, job fairs, college recruiting and search firms.

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The Expected Compensation For This Position Is

$128,000.00 USD - $160,000.00 USD

Pay is based on a number of factors including market location, qualifications, skills, and experience.

Live Nation Entertainment will never request payment or equipment purchases as part of the hiring process. Recruiters will only contact candidates from official Live Nation or affiliated brand email domains.

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