Senior Engineer - Data Platform Infrastructure

Live Nation Entertainment; Kansas City (KS); Remote; USD 136,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a passionate Data Engineer to join their Core Data Services team. In this hands-on role, you will leverage your expertise in cloud platforms to design and maintain a modern data infrastructure that empowers teams across the organization. You will play a crucial role in enhancing data delivery and ensuring the security and efficiency of the data platform. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to innovative data solutions in a dynamic and inclusive environment, where your skills will directly impact the company's success and growth.

Benefits

Medical, Dental and Vision benefits

Paid time off including holidays and birthday

401(k) program with company match

Tuition reimbursement

Free concert tickets

Volunteer time off

Qualifications

• Strong experience with cloud platforms and Big Data architecture.
• Hands-on experience in software development and deployment automation.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain secure data platforms and infrastructure.
• Collaborate with teams to deliver data solutions and support.

Skills

AWS

Azure

GCP

Python

Go

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

CI/CD

Agile methodologies

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

GitHub Actions

Circle CI

Jenkins

Atlassian Suite (Jira, Confluence)

Job description

Job Summary:

WHO ARE WE?

Live Nation Entertainment is the world’s leading live entertainment and eCommerce company, comprised of four market leaders: Ticketmaster.com, Live Nation Concerts, Front Line Management Group and Live Nation Network. Ticketmaster.com is the global event ticketing leader and one of the world’s top five eCommerce sites, with over 26 million monthly unique visitors. Live Nation Concerts produces over 20,000 shows annually for more than 2,000 artists globally. Front Line is the world’s top artist management company, representing over 250 artists. These businesses power Live Nation Network, the leading provider of entertainment marketing solutions, enabling over 800 advertisers to tap into the 200 million consumers Live Nation delivers annually through its live event and digital platforms. For additional information, visit www.livenation.com/investors.

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

The Core Data Services team is at the center of Data and Analytics initiatives. We are building a modern data platform to support enterprise data needs. Our mission and yours too should you choose to, is to empower and enable our data community of data engineers, data scientists, analysts, product teams and decision makers to create value.

The Core Data Services team consists of Platform Engineering, Data Engineering, Data Enablement and Operations teams. We are building a highly functional, performant modern enterprise Data Lake while supporting our current data platforms so the focus is on maximizing functionality, creating value and content/data assets, cost optimizations and usability of the data delivery and services. All this is our measure of our success and defines us, the Core Data Services Team! We are looking for a Data Engineer - Platform, You!

WHAT THIS ROLE WILL DO

This is a hands-on Data Platform Infrastructure role that will use their strong infrastructure and deployment automation skills to design, develop, deploy, and maintain testable, secure platforms and infrastructure that are easy and efficient to use.

The platform would provide:

• The foundations of all critical software is built on

• Security products for building the data platform

• Ability to empower our product teams to take ownership of how they deliver software robustly and at scale

• Participate in on-call rotations/Pagerduty for data platform support.

WHAT THIS PERSON WILL BRING:

• Strong hands-on experience with either AWS, Azure or GCP

• Solid knowledge of cloud architecture principles specifically for Big Data platforms

• Hands-on experience with all phases of the software and system development life cycle and agile methodologies

• Hands-on experience writing production software and automations in at least one general-purpose programming language (Python, Go)

• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Docker or other containerization technologies and infrastructure-as-code (IaC) technologies such as Terraform

• Hands-on experience with runtime orchestrations like serverless, container orchestrations, batch and real-time event orchestration

• Hands-on experience building continuous integration (CI) with common tools such as GitHub Actions, Circle CI, Jenkins, and Tekton and experience building continuous deployment (CD) for both software and data architectures and adept with multiple deployment strategies like canary, blue-green deployments, etc.

• Agile development methodologies using the Atlassian suite: Jira, Confluence

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver data solutions and provide technical support and guidance to team members.

• Stay up-to-date with the latest data engineering technologies and trends.

BENEFITS & PERKS

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

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

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY

We are passionate and committed to our people and go beyond the rhetoric of diversity and inclusion. You will be working in an inclusive environment and be encouraged to bring your whole self to work. We will do all that we can to help you successfully balance your work and home life. 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. It’s talent that matters to us and we encourage applications from people irrespective of their gender, race, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability status or caring responsibilities.

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:

$136,000.00 USD - $170,000.00 USD

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