We are UMG, the Universal Music Group. We are the world’s leading music company. In everything we do, we are committed to artistry, innovation and entrepreneurship. We own and operate a broad array of businesses engaged in recorded music, music publishing, merchandising, and audiovisual content in more than 60 countries. We identify and develop recording artists and songwriters, and we produce, distribute and promote the most critically acclaimed and commercially successful music to delight and entertain fans around the world.

Virgin Music Label and Artist Services is the Independent Services division of Capitol Music Group (CMG), providing a full range of label services and revenue streams for Virgin Music artists, releases, and label associations on a worldwide basis, including Marketing, Promotion, Commercial Development, Branding, Synch & Licensing, Lifestyle Marketing, Business Affairs and Finance.

At Virgin Music Group, we are committed to powering creativity in today’s dynamic music marketplace by providing the best distribution, marketing, and rights management tools and services to content creators and owners. We develop state-of-the-art, cost-efficient, and scalable technology platforms. Our partners benefit from our experienced, knowledgeable people, unparalleled commitment to customer service, and thoughtful marketing solutions that drive results. We aspire to be the most transparent and solution-driven partner for all of the labels and artists we work with.

How we LEAD:

The DevOps Engineer will work collaboratively with infrastructure, development, and operation teams to help automate and streamline CI/CD processes and toolsets for high availability, secure, scalable enterprise, and software as a service application within the AWS environment. As a member of the team, you will drive the design, implementation, testing, deployment, and post-release production support.

How you’ll CREATE:

Support and manage production Kubernetes clusters.
Analyze, design, and implement strategies for continuous deployment of enterprise and software as a service application while ensuring security and high availability on pre-production and production systems.
Oversee the coordination, integration, and flow of development, testing, and deployment to support continuous delivery.
Provide an extremely reliable and secure enterprise environment that is fully automated and free from obstacles.
Operate effectively across development platforms, tools, networks, servers, and databases, considering both cloud and hybrid solutions.

Bring your VIBE:

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or similar field
Minimum of 5 years of successful customer engagements providing continuous delivery solutions employing AWS and GCP
Minimum of 5 years of hands-on experience working with core AWS technologies, considering the following:
AWS EKS, GKE or similar container orchestration technologies
Compute (EC2, Snapshot Management, AMI, Auto Scaling)
Security (IAM, KMS, SSM, Policies, WAF, Cognito)
Networking (VPC, Security Groups, ELB all types, Route53, CloudFront)
Storage (EBS, EFS, S3, Glacier)
Serverless (Lambda, API Gateway)
Databases (RDS Postgres, RDS MySQL, Aurora, Elastic Cache, DynamoDB)
Monitoring (CloudWatch, CloudTrail, ELK Stack, Prometheus, Datadog, Splunk)
Application Integration (SQS, SNS)
Proficient in cloud-based system design and architecture
Experience in laying out non-functional qualities in the platform including resiliency, scalability, security, and lineage.
Experience building sophisticated and highly automated infrastructure.
Experience with seamless/automated build scripts used for release management across all environments.
Strong practical Linux-based systems administration skills in an AWS environment.
Experience establishing and employing CI/CD practices and tools (GitLab, ArgoCD, TeamCity)
Experience with automation and configuration management using a variety of tools (Ansible, Terraform, Packer, etc.)
Experience and ability to setup automated monitoring and alerting systems.
Fluent scripting experience in languages such as Python
Strong communication and collaboration skills
Professional commitment to high quality
Passion for automation of everything to release fast, frequently, and reliably.
Detail oriented individual with the ability to rapidly learn new concepts and technologies.
Strong problem solving providing simple solutions to complex situations
Excellent team player

Salary Range: $79,373 to 130,788

Perks Playlist:

Be part of an entrepreneurial, global organization that values authenticity, drive, creativity, relationships, and a competitive spirit
Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, and FSA options, as well as:
- 100% coverage for out-patient mental health services
- Wellbeing reimbursements for fitness classes, spa treatments, meal services, travel, and so much more (up to $720/year)
- A lifetime fertility support allowance of $30,000 to plan participants
- Student Loan Repayment Assistance and Tuition Reimbursement
- 100% immediately vested 401(k) match on the first 5% of your contribution on eligible compensation

Variety of ways to prioritize much-needed time away from work including:
- Flexible Paid Time Off (PTO) for exempt employees
- 3-weeks PTO for non-exempt employees
- 2-weeks paid Winter Break
- 10 Company Holidays (including Juneteenth and Wellbeing Day)
- Summer Fridays (between Memorial Day and Labor Day)
- Generous paid parental leave for every type of parent

Check out our full overview of benefits on the

Perks Playlist page

of the career site.

Disclaimer: This job description only provides an overview of job responsibilities that are subject to change.

Universal Music Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer

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Job Category:

Technology

Salary Range:

$79,373 - $130,788

The actual base salary offered depends on a variety of factors, which may include, as applicable, the qualifications of the individual applicant for the position, years of relevant experience, specific and unique skills, level of education attained, certifications or other professional licenses held, and the location in which the applicant lives and/or from which they will be performing the job. All candidates are encouraged to apply.