Who We Are: TKO Group Holdings, Inc. (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. The Role and What You’ll Do TKO 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. The DevOps Lead will: 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. You Have These 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). We’d Love If You Also Have These 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. Travel Occasional travel is required for onsite support, projects, leadership offsites, workshops, and training/conferences/events. Per 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. Hiring Rate Minimum: $112,500 annually(minimum will not fall below the applicable State/local minimum salary thresholds) Hiring Rate Maximum: $150,000 annually TKO 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. For information regarding Terms of Use for this and other TKO websites, please review our Terms of Use. TKO Group Holdings, Inc. (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. About WWE WWE® is an integrated media organization and the recognized global leader in sports entertainment. The company consists of a portfolio of businesses that create and deliver original content 52 weeks a year to a global audience. WWE is committed to family-friendly entertainment on its television programming, premium live events, digital media, and publishing platforms. WWE’s TV-PG programming can be seen in more than 1 billion households worldwide in more than 20 languages through world-class distribution partners including NBCUniversal, The CW and Netflix. In the United States, NBCUniversal’s streaming service, Peacock, is the exclusive home to all premium live events, a variety of original programming and a massive video-on-demand library. Netflix is the exclusive home for WWE programming around the world, other than select international markets. WWE is part of TKO Group Holdings (NYSE: TKO). Additional information on WWE can be found at wwe.com and corporate.wwe.com. About UFC UFC® is the world’s premier mixed martial arts organization (MMA), with more than 700 million fans and approximately 290 million social media followers. The organization produces more than 40 live events annually in some of the most prestigious arenas around the world while broadcasting to over 975 million households across more than 170 countries. UFC’s athlete roster features the world’s best MMA athletes representing more than 80 countries. The organization’s digital offerings include UFC FIGHT PASS®, one of the world’s leading streaming services for combat sports. UFC is part of TKO Group Holdings (NYSE: TKO) and is headquartered in Las Vegas, Nevada. For more information, visit UFC.com and follow UFC at Facebook.com/UFC and @UFC on X, Snapchat, Instagram, and TikTok: @UFC. About IMG IMG is a leading global sports marketing agency, specializing in media rights management and sales, multi-channel content production and distribution, brand partnerships, strategic consulting, digital services, and events management. It powers growth of revenues, fanbases and IP for more than 200 federations, associations, events, and teams, including the National Football League, English Premier League, International Olympic Committee, National Hockey League, Major League Soccer, ATP and WTA Tours, the AELTC (Wimbledon), Euroleague Basketball, CONMEBOL, DP World Tour, and The R&A, as well as UFC, WWE, and PBR. IMG is a subsidiary of TKO Group Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: TKO), a premium sports and entertainment company. About PBR PBR is the world’s premier bull riding organization. More than 1,000 bull riders compete in more than 200 events annually across the televised PBR Unleash The Beast tour (UTB), which features the top bull riders in the world; the PBR Pendleton Whisky Velocity Tour (PWVT); the PBR Touring Pro Division (TPD); and the PBR’s international circuits in Australia, Brazil, and Canada. In 2022, PBR launched the nationally televised PBR Teams league—eight teams of the world’s best bull riders competing for a new championship expanding to 10 teams in 2024—as well as the PBR Challenger Series with more than 60 annual events nationwide. The organization’s digital assets include PBR RidePass on Pluto TV, which is home to Western sports. PBR is a subsidiary of TKO Group Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: TKO), a premium sports and entertainment company. For more information, visit PBR.com, or follow on Facebook at Facebook.com/PBR, X at X.com/PBR, and YouTube at YouTube.com/PBR. About On Location On Location is a global leader in premium experiential hospitality, offering ticketing, curated guest experiences, live event production and travel management across sports, entertainment, fashion and culture. On Location provides unrivaled access for corporate clients and fans looking for official, immersive experiences at marquee events, including the Olympic and Paralympic Games, FIFA World Cup 2026, Super Bowl, NCAA Final Four, and more. An official partner and/or service provider to over 150 iconic rights holders, such as the IOC (the Milano Cortina 2026 and Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Games), FIFA, NFL, NCAA, UFC, WWE, and PGA of America, the company also owns and operates a number of its own unique experiences. On Location is a subsidiary of TKO Group Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: TKO), a premium sports and entertainment company. About Zuffa Boxing Zuffa Boxing is a joint venture between TKO Group Holdings, Inc. (“TKO”) (NYSE: TKO) and Sela, the entertainment conglomerate. TKO serves as managing partner, providing day-to-day operational expertise, management, and oversight of the promotion, with executive leadership anchored by UFC President and CEO Dana White and WWE President and TKO Board Member Nick Khan. The promotion aims to reimagine the sport of boxing by evolving the current model to restore the sport’s rightful place in the forefront of the global sports ecosystem. For more information, follow @Zuffa_Boxing on X; and @ZuffaBoxing on Snapchat, Instagram, Threads, and TikTok.

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