Systems Engineer, Data Center Operations

Job Description

THE TEAM

This position will be part of Ticketmaster's Data Center Engineering team. The team is responsible for building, maintaining and keeping the company's physical infrastructure footprint running smoothly to keep fans happy and support our internal customers.

THE JOB

Ticketmaster is seeking a talented Infrastructure Engineer responsible for overseeing data center-based projects and operations tasks crucial to supporting our critical Data Center devices and infrastructure.

You will be handling requests from and supporting internal service teams by responding to requests for hardware installations, maintenance, troubleshooting and recycling efforts. This role is also responsible for proactively monitoring critical hardware systems and focusing on higher level initiatives that include firmware management, hardware monitoring and alerting and metrics collection.

This is an exciting time to come on board with Ticketmaster, as we will be focusing on efforts towards hardware modernization and operability, expanding capacity and expanding our internal services for internal customers

WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING
• Provide expertise on hardware deployments and working with internal service team to build rack elevations and deploy hardware
• Work with our Data Center Asset Management system to keep automated systems up to date with critical asset information
• Work with service teams and Network teams to build port configurations
• Lead projects to rack and install new hardware and decommission old hardware
• Respond to requests for support of hardware in the datacenter as well as manage hardware lifecycle
• Maintain key relationships with internal Engineering customers
• Manage and maintain the hardware monitoring platform to keep internal customers hardware operating smoothly
• Deploying systems firmware updates to keep the hardware platforms up to date and compliance with standards
• Monitor the data center environment to keep things running within specifications
• Work with the data center facility to receive and ship hardware
• Keep the data center organized and efficient
• Able to troubleshoot P0 incidents in a timely manner, supporting a 24/7 mission critical environment
• Understanding of Data Center Power infrastructure for capacity planning, monitoring and deployment

SKILLS and COMPETENCIES
• Strong technical troubleshooting skills
• Excellent understanding of modern server and networking hardware, Dell, HP, Cisco and Arista offerings for example
• Excellent verbal and communication skills
• Great documentation and peer review skills
• Scripting ability a plus (Python, Go)
• Knowledge and experience with DCIM (Data Center Inventory Management) solutions
• Experience with Linux preferable
• Ability to use SSH and other remote access solutions

QUALIFICATIONS
• Server+ certification or equivalent experience
• Network+ certification or equivalent experience
• 7+ supporting Enterprise Data Centers
• Strong background with both iDrac and iLo

YOU ARE
• Detail oriented
• Autonomous and proactive
• Passionate about hardware
• Self-motivated activator, energetic and tenacious
• Comfortable with working in cross functional and multidisciplinary teams
• Excited about taking on challenging technical problems and devising creative solutions

LIFE AT TICKETMASTER

We are proud to be a part of Live Nation Entertainment, the world's largest live entertainment company.
Our vision at Ticketmaster is to connect people around the world to the live events they love. As the world's largest ticket marketplace and the leading global provider of enterprise tools and services for the live entertainment business, we are uniquely positioned to successfully deliver on that vision.

We do it all with an intense passion for Live and an inspiring and diverse culture driven by accessible leaders, attentive managers, and enthusiastic teams. If you're passionate about live entertainment like we are, and you want to work at a company dedicated to helping millions of fans experience it, we want to hear from you.
Our work is guided by our values:

Reliability - We understand that fans and clients rely on us to power their live event experiences, and we rely on each other to make it happen.

Teamwork - We believe individual achievement pales in comparison to the level of success that can be achieved by a team

Integrity - We are committed to the highest moral and ethical standards on behalf of the countless partners and stakeholders we represent

Belonging - We are committed to building a culture in which all people can be their authentic selves, have an equal voice and opportunities to thrive

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.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-g4n5bv-98-82-140-17-42 in your application.