DevOps Lead

About the role

TKO Group Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: TKO) is a premium sports and entertainment company owning UFC, WWE, PBR, IMG, and On Location. The DevOps Lead reports to the VP, Business Systems and owns deployment, release management, and security operations for Salesforce and business‑systems platforms, ensuring reliability, security, and speed of evolution.

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 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.

Requirements

• 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).

Qualifications

• 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

The company strives to provide locally competitive rewards packages, which include base rate along