Solutions Architect - Cloud

Job Description

Awesome Job: Solutions Architect, Cloud
Great Location: Los Angeles, CA or Remote

THE TEAM

The Public Cloud team operates at scale Ticketmaster's AWS footprint including managing infrastructure at a global scale.

Responsibilities and Focus:
• High level auditing and PCI requirements
• Maintaining standard IaC tooling and its product release schedule
• Creating and maintaining standard IaC modules for reuse by development teams
• Designing scalable, automated and maintainable solutions to AWS account management
• Working with internal groups, such as Information Security, Network Engineering, and Cost Optimization to establish best practices and implementation around IaC, security, networking and efficiency
• Focused on the five pillars of AWS Well-Architected Framework
• EC2, Kubernetes and other forms of compute
• Provide consultation and operational support work
• Active participation in agile practices and cross departmental program management

THE JOB

As a Solutions Architect - Cloud at Ticketmaster you will bring your vast AWS/cloud experience to directly influence the next generation of cloud consumption and governance. You will impact fans by helping product teams understand, architect, and deploy scalable and globally distributed systems. Such systems include database, API microservices, and big data tool sets.

Working directly with the business, product development teams, and third parties you will disseminate technical and complex requirements and create architectural artifacts and solutions. With this knowledge in hand you will work with leadership to build roadmap for various programs. In addition, you will be given latitude to build your own vision to improve the stability and cost efficiency of our platform while striving to ease the friction of compliance work.

You will help guide cloud engineers to implement various tooling, integrations, and automation following standards and best practices. Your efforts will be a direct pipeline into teams backlogs.

WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING
• Deploying into teams to deeply understand business and technical requirements in order to make proper recommendations in alignment with organizational security and other best practices
• Working directly with leadership to evaluate solutions and options to create programs and roadmaps to achieve technical and business objectives
• Working closely with AWS and their Solutions Architects and product/service teams to understand the latest features of AWS and how they solve Ticketmaster's business and technical challenges
• Coding to create custom scripts against AWS's API to answer audit and other questions
• Writing code to build out custom integrations between various systems to achieve company objectives, increase visibility into Ticketmaster's AWS footprint, and manage our in-house Terraform IaC toolset.
• Team up with Information Security to work through yearly audit and compliance process while also strategizing ways to reduce manual compliance efforts across our cloud infrastructure
• Mentor and teach senior and junior engineers in the ways of cloud architecture with your advanced experience
• Helping to keep AWS consumption scalable through account strategy and management
• Working with our networking team to ensure a seamless integration between onprem and the cloud, ensuring compliance and scalability
• Evangelizing our process and standard changes, releases of our IaC, and other design decisions to the organization through both the written and verbal word
• Work with development teams and vendors to vet vendor management solutions
• Work within a agile team and process, adding your skillset to a cohort of cloud and team skills

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW (or TECHNICAL SKILLS/COMPETENCIES)
• Detail oriented but able to distill information down to an effective and consumable artifact
• Obtained AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional
• Bonus: AWS Certified Security - Speciality
• Bonus: AWS Certified Networking - Speciality
• IaC tooling, specifically HashiCorp's Terraform
• Go Lang, bash and Python coding abilities
• Quality mind-set, ability to write unit test and integration tests
• Experienced in building UML diagrams describing logic or components of a larger cloud system
• Bonus: Degree or certificate in information Security
• Experience with PCI DSS, CIS Benchmark Standards
• Deep knowledge of AWS IAM and other authentication technologies

YOU (BEHAVIOURAL SKILLS/COMPETENCIES)
• A ''lean in'' mentality that drives you to grow, improve and contribute to the team and larger organizational success
• Self-driver and motivator, ability to self-organize
• Strong ability to community internally and externally
• Set realistic time frame given many options with tradeoffs
• Attention to detail
• Ability to think bigger picture on changes that leads you to ask probing and relevant questions
• Serious about the work at hand while appreciating responding to change, respecting and enjoying with great people
• Ability to think broadly but also get into the details

TICKETMASTER VALUES

Rock Solid Reliability – I earn the trust of clients, co-workers and fans; I set clear expectations; I deliver high quality work on time and on task; I take the time to do things right

Winning Teamwork – I collaborate with others; I share information openly; I listen and take time to empathise and understand where others are coming from; I show recognition and appreciation for the contributions of others

Act with Integrity – I am proud of the way I represent myself and the company to others; I act with good intentions; I have direct, honest conversations while creating a safe work environment for open dialogue; I represent information and data accurately and completely

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY

We also afford equal employment opportunities to qualified individuals with a disability. For this reason, Ticketmaster will make reasonable accommodations for the known physical or mental limitations of an otherwise qualified individual with a disability who is an applicant consistent with its legal obligations to do so, including reasonable accommodations related to pregnancy in accordance with applicable local, state and / or federal law. As part of its commitment to make reasonable accommodations, Ticketmaster also wishes to participate in a timely, good faith, interactive process with a disabled applicant to determine effective reasonable accommodations, if any, which can be made in response to a request for accommodations. Applicants are invited to identify reasonable accommodations that can be made to assist them to perform the essential functions of the position they seek. Any applicant who requires an accommodation in order to perform the essential functions of the job should contact a Human Resources Representative to request the opportunity to participate in a timely interactive process. Ticketmaster will also provide reasonable religious accommodations on a case by case basis.

CO Hiring Range*: $143,948k - $160,000
**Please note that the compensation information provided is a good faith estimate for this position only and is provided pursuant to the Colorado Equal Pay for Equal Work Act and Equal Pay Transparency Rules. It is estimated based on what a successful Colorado applicant might be paid. It assumes that the successful candidate will be in Colorado or perform the position from Co

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