[Remote] DevOps Lead

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. TKO Group Holdings is a premium sports and entertainment company that owns and operates major sports, entertainment, media, and hospitality properties. TKO is seeking a DevOps Lead to own deployment, release management, security operations, environment management, and DevSecOps practices across Salesforce and connected business-systems platforms. The role will lead automation, observability, incident response, compliance controls, and collaboration among software development, security, and IT operations teams.

Responsibilities

• Own the framework and ongoing optimization of deployment, pipeline (CI/CD), environment management, and release management across the Salesforce and connected business-systems landscape
• Own security operations — including observability, monitoring, incident response, and reliability and scaling — ensuring platforms are secure, resilient, and performant
• Own security vendor relationships, ensuring adherence to SLAs, monitoring services, and alerting
• Facilitate communication and streamline workflows between software developers, security, and IT operations teams, breaking down silos across the delivery pipeline
• Own the tooling and AI capabilities that accelerate deployment, testing, and operational tasks, continuously evaluating and introducing automation that improves speed and quality
• Establish branching, release, and environment-promotion strategies that enable predictable, low-risk deployments
• Embed security and compliance controls directly into the pipeline (shift-left), partnering with the platform and data architecture functions to enforce standards
• Define, 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
• Lead security incident response and post-incident reviews, ensuring rigorous root-cause analysis and durable remediation
• Govern environments and sandboxes, including data seeding, refresh strategy, and access controls
• Partner with the Director, Salesforce Platform Architecture & Delivery and the Data & Marketing Technology Architect to align release governance, architecture standards, and quality expectations
• Occasional travel is required for onsite support, projects, leadership offsites, workshops, and training/conferences/events

Skills

• 6+ years in DevOps/DevSecOps, release engineering, and site reliability, including experience leading practices, standards, and teams
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent experience
• Hands-on expertise building and optimizing CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, and environment/release management
• Experience owning security operations: observability, monitoring and alerting, incident response, and reliability and scaling practices
• Proficiency with DevOps and release-management tooling (e.g., Salesforce DevOps Center, Copado, Gearset, Git-based workflows, or similar)
• Experience with observability and monitoring platforms (e.g., Datadog, Splunk, New Relic, or similar)
• Demonstrated ability to facilitate collaboration across software development, security, and IT operations teams
• Experience applying AI and automation to accelerate deployment, testing, and operational tasks
• Strong understanding of security and compliance practices, including access control, secrets management, and data governance
• Excellent problem-solving, critical thinking, and communication skills (written and verbal, for technical and non-technical audiences)
• Occasional travel is required for onsite support, projects, leadership offsites, workshops, and training/conferences/events
• Background in QA strategy and test automation, including building automated test frameworks and embedding quality gates in the delivery lifecycle
• Experience within the Salesforce ecosystem (Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Data Cloud) and Salesforce-specific deployment and testing tooling
• Relevant certifications (e.g., Salesforce DevOps/Platform certifications, AWS or Azure DevOps, Certified Kubernetes, or security certifications such as Security+ or CISSP)
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code and cloud platform operations (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
• Experience operating in regulated, high-availability, or high-traffic environments
• Experience in live events, sports, hospitality, or media businesses

Benefits

• Short- and long-term incentives, as applicable
• Growth and developmental opportunities
• Health care
• Retirement
• Vacation and other paid time off
• Additional offerings
• Remote work in Connecticut, New York, Texas, or Ohio

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