Platform Engineering Manager Jobs in USA with Visa Sponsorship
Platform Engineering Manager roles attract strong H-1B visa and O-1 visa sponsorship because employers treat infrastructure leadership as a specialty occupation requiring a degree in computer science, software engineering, or a closely related field. Most openings are at mid-to-large tech companies with established immigration programs. For detailed occupation requirements, see the O*NET profile.
Find Platform Engineering Manager JobsOverview
Showing 5 of 152+ Platform Engineering Manager jobs
See all 152+ Platform Engineering Manager Jobs
Sign up for free to unlock all listings, filter by visa type, and get alerts for new Platform Engineering Manager roles.
Get Access To All JobsJob Summary
Job Purpose
The VP, IT Platform Engineering is a senior leadership role within Live Nation's Global IT department, responsible for the enterprise-wide IT infrastructure engineering including our cloud-based compute, storage, network, security, and identity and access management capabilities, along with the strategic management of related technology contracts, licensing, and third-party relationships.
Reporting to the SVP, Global IT Operations, this role is a strategic leadership position, accountable for delivering key initiatives critical to improving the quality, reliability and security of our infrastructure engineering function, building new teams and capabilities, and improving the pace of infrastructure delivery.
This role is also responsible for the management of a global Identity and Access Management (IAM) team, maturing cloud engineering and cloud application support capabilities, developing network engineering architecture, and driving disciplined, cost-effective management of the enterprise's technology contracts and vendor ecosystem.
This role is ideally based in LA with hybrid work at our offices in Beverly Hills, CA, but remote candidates open to frequent travel will be considered.
Role Description
Strategic Leadership:
- Develop and implement a comprehensive global IT engineering capability improvement roadmap that aligns with Live Nation's business objectives and incorporates disaster recovery & business continuity goals.
- Collaborate with executive leadership to identify and prioritize technology initiatives that drive growth and efficiency.
- Envision and implement AI-native practices and tools to drive effectiveness and delivery throughput.
- Implement frameworks and ways of working to ensure regulatory compliance across all technology domains.
- Establish and monitor key performance indicators (KPIs), service-level agreements (SLAs), and other metrics to track performance.
- Own budget management for the function, including forecasting, cost optimization, vendor spend, and capital expenditure planning across security, cloud, and third-party contracts.
IT Security Engineering & Identity and Access Management (IAM)
- Own the enterprise IT Security Engineering function, setting technical direction, standards, and roadmap for IT security tooling and architecture across the organization.
- Lead the global Identity and Access Management (IAM) team, hiring and developing talent, and managing the operating model, processes, and governance for identity, authentication, and access control, in partnership with global Cyber Security team.
- Manage the IAM technology stack (e.g., SSO, MFA, privileged access management, identity governance) across the enterprise, ensuring secure, scalable, and audit-ready access management practices.
- Define and implement security engineering processes covering vulnerability management, secure architecture review, threat detection engineering, and security tooling integration.
- Partner with Compliance, Risk, Data Privacy and Legal teams to ensure IAM and security engineering practices meet regulatory, audit, and data protection requirements.
- Drive continuous improvement of the organization's security posture, working closely with SOC/security operations, engineering, and infrastructure teams to reduce risk and close gaps.
Cloud Engineering
- Lead the Cloud Engineering function, setting architecture standards, governance, and best practices for cloud infrastructure across the enterprise's cloud environments.
- Oversee Cloud-based Third-Party SaaS Application Implementation, Integration & Escalated Support, ensuring reliable, secure, and well-supported operation of business-critical cloud-hosted applications, with clear escalation paths and service level accountability.
- Drive cloud engineering roadmap decisions including automation, infrastructure-as-code, cost optimization (FinOps), scalability, and resilience of cloud platforms.
- Ensure security engineering and IAM practices are embedded into cloud engineering design and operations from the outset (secure-by-design).
- Partner with application, infrastructure, and DevOps teams to ensure cloud engineering and support practices align with broader enterprise technology strategy.
Enterprise Networking Engineering Architecture
- Own the end-to-end architecture and technical standards for the enterprise's global network estate, ensuring consistent, compliant, scalable design across cloud, and office (incl. international venue) locations.
- Lead the technical design of network integrations for M&A activity, ensuring acquired businesses are architected into the global network in line with corporate standards.
- Embed security-by-design principles (segmentation, Zero Trust, encryption) into all network architecture decisions, partnering closely with Security and Infrastructure teams.
- Drive the network technology roadmap, including automation, infrastructure-as-code, and resilience/capacity planning, to reduce risk and manual effort across global operations.
General Leadership, Governance & Business Enablement
- Build, lead, and develop a high-performing team across security engineering, IAM, cloud engineering, and vendor/contract management disciplines, with a strong focus on coaching, mentoring, and career development.
- Own enterprise-level contract management for technology agreements, including negotiation support, renewals, terms review, and lifecycle management in partnership with Legal and Procurement.
- Own enterprise-level relationships with strategic third-party technology vendors and partners, serving as the senior point of contact for escalations, commercial discussions, and roadmap alignment.
- Drive efficiency, innovation, and modernization through the adoption of AI and automation across security engineering, cloud operations, and service delivery.
Experience & Qualifications
Essential
- Significant senior IT leadership experience, with a demonstrable track record across cloud engineering, security engineering, & identity and access management.
- Prior experience at an equivalent level, leading technical teams within a complex enterprise IT environment.
- Proven experience building new teams, processes, and technology capability from the ground up, ideally in an IAM or security engineering context.
- Strong background in cloud platforms (e.g., AWS) and SaaS applications integration, operations and support.
- Demonstrated experience managing enterprise-level technology contracts, software licensing, and vendor/third-party relationships.
- Sound commercial acumen with experience managing sizeable technology budgets and vendor spend.
- Deep understanding of IT security, identity governance, and regulatory/compliance requirements (e.g., data protection, cybersecurity frameworks).
Desirable
- Experience working within a de-centralized IT organization.
- CISSP, CISM, ITIL, PMP, or equivalent professional certifications.
- MBA or equivalent business qualification.
- Experience working within a large, publicly listed organization.
Skills & Personal Attributes
- Exceptional stakeholder management and influencing skills, able to engage credibly from engineers through to C-suite executives.
- Strong communicator with the ability to translate complex technical subjects into clear, business-relevant language.
- Hands-on builder mentality, comfortable standing up new teams, processes, and technology from scratch.
- Highly organized and comfortable managing multiple priorities across security, and cloud workstreams simultaneously.
- Collaborative leadership style with the ability to build high-performing, cross-functional teams.
- Commercially minded, with a focus on value delivery, cost discipline, and operational performance.
- Resilient and decisive under pressure, particularly during security incidents or critical vendor escalations.
- Genuine passion for technology, security, and cloud innovation as enablers of business growth.
The expected compensation for this position is:
$243,000.00 USD - $304,000.00 USD
Pay is based on a number of factors including market location, qualifications, skills, and experience.
Live Nation Entertainment will never request payment or equipment purchases as part of the hiring process. Recruiters will only contact candidates from official Live Nation or affiliated brand email domains.
Job Summary
Job Purpose
The VP, IT Platform Engineering is a senior leadership role within Live Nation's Global IT department, responsible for the enterprise-wide IT infrastructure engineering including our cloud-based compute, storage, network, security, and identity and access management capabilities, along with the strategic management of related technology contracts, licensing, and third-party relationships.
Reporting to the SVP, Global IT Operations, this role is a strategic leadership position, accountable for delivering key initiatives critical to improving the quality, reliability and security of our infrastructure engineering function, building new teams and capabilities, and improving the pace of infrastructure delivery.
This role is also responsible for the management of a global Identity and Access Management (IAM) team, maturing cloud engineering and cloud application support capabilities, developing network engineering architecture, and driving disciplined, cost-effective management of the enterprise's technology contracts and vendor ecosystem.
This role is ideally based in LA with hybrid work at our offices in Beverly Hills, CA, but remote candidates open to frequent travel will be considered.
Role Description
Strategic Leadership:
- Develop and implement a comprehensive global IT engineering capability improvement roadmap that aligns with Live Nation's business objectives and incorporates disaster recovery & business continuity goals.
- Collaborate with executive leadership to identify and prioritize technology initiatives that drive growth and efficiency.
- Envision and implement AI-native practices and tools to drive effectiveness and delivery throughput.
- Implement frameworks and ways of working to ensure regulatory compliance across all technology domains.
- Establish and monitor key performance indicators (KPIs), service-level agreements (SLAs), and other metrics to track performance.
- Own budget management for the function, including forecasting, cost optimization, vendor spend, and capital expenditure planning across security, cloud, and third-party contracts.
IT Security Engineering & Identity and Access Management (IAM)
- Own the enterprise IT Security Engineering function, setting technical direction, standards, and roadmap for IT security tooling and architecture across the organization.
- Lead the global Identity and Access Management (IAM) team, hiring and developing talent, and managing the operating model, processes, and governance for identity, authentication, and access control, in partnership with global Cyber Security team.
- Manage the IAM technology stack (e.g., SSO, MFA, privileged access management, identity governance) across the enterprise, ensuring secure, scalable, and audit-ready access management practices.
- Define and implement security engineering processes covering vulnerability management, secure architecture review, threat detection engineering, and security tooling integration.
- Partner with Compliance, Risk, Data Privacy and Legal teams to ensure IAM and security engineering practices meet regulatory, audit, and data protection requirements.
- Drive continuous improvement of the organization's security posture, working closely with SOC/security operations, engineering, and infrastructure teams to reduce risk and close gaps.
Cloud Engineering
- Lead the Cloud Engineering function, setting architecture standards, governance, and best practices for cloud infrastructure across the enterprise's cloud environments.
- Oversee Cloud-based Third-Party SaaS Application Implementation, Integration & Escalated Support, ensuring reliable, secure, and well-supported operation of business-critical cloud-hosted applications, with clear escalation paths and service level accountability.
- Drive cloud engineering roadmap decisions including automation, infrastructure-as-code, cost optimization (FinOps), scalability, and resilience of cloud platforms.
- Ensure security engineering and IAM practices are embedded into cloud engineering design and operations from the outset (secure-by-design).
- Partner with application, infrastructure, and DevOps teams to ensure cloud engineering and support practices align with broader enterprise technology strategy.
Enterprise Networking Engineering Architecture
- Own the end-to-end architecture and technical standards for the enterprise's global network estate, ensuring consistent, compliant, scalable design across cloud, and office (incl. international venue) locations.
- Lead the technical design of network integrations for M&A activity, ensuring acquired businesses are architected into the global network in line with corporate standards.
- Embed security-by-design principles (segmentation, Zero Trust, encryption) into all network architecture decisions, partnering closely with Security and Infrastructure teams.
- Drive the network technology roadmap, including automation, infrastructure-as-code, and resilience/capacity planning, to reduce risk and manual effort across global operations.
General Leadership, Governance & Business Enablement
- Build, lead, and develop a high-performing team across security engineering, IAM, cloud engineering, and vendor/contract management disciplines, with a strong focus on coaching, mentoring, and career development.
- Own enterprise-level contract management for technology agreements, including negotiation support, renewals, terms review, and lifecycle management in partnership with Legal and Procurement.
- Own enterprise-level relationships with strategic third-party technology vendors and partners, serving as the senior point of contact for escalations, commercial discussions, and roadmap alignment.
- Drive efficiency, innovation, and modernization through the adoption of AI and automation across security engineering, cloud operations, and service delivery.
Experience & Qualifications
Essential
- Significant senior IT leadership experience, with a demonstrable track record across cloud engineering, security engineering, & identity and access management.
- Prior experience at an equivalent level, leading technical teams within a complex enterprise IT environment.
- Proven experience building new teams, processes, and technology capability from the ground up, ideally in an IAM or security engineering context.
- Strong background in cloud platforms (e.g., AWS) and SaaS applications integration, operations and support.
- Demonstrated experience managing enterprise-level technology contracts, software licensing, and vendor/third-party relationships.
- Sound commercial acumen with experience managing sizeable technology budgets and vendor spend.
- Deep understanding of IT security, identity governance, and regulatory/compliance requirements (e.g., data protection, cybersecurity frameworks).
Desirable
- Experience working within a de-centralized IT organization.
- CISSP, CISM, ITIL, PMP, or equivalent professional certifications.
- MBA or equivalent business qualification.
- Experience working within a large, publicly listed organization.
Skills & Personal Attributes
- Exceptional stakeholder management and influencing skills, able to engage credibly from engineers through to C-suite executives.
- Strong communicator with the ability to translate complex technical subjects into clear, business-relevant language.
- Hands-on builder mentality, comfortable standing up new teams, processes, and technology from scratch.
- Highly organized and comfortable managing multiple priorities across security, and cloud workstreams simultaneously.
- Collaborative leadership style with the ability to build high-performing, cross-functional teams.
- Commercially minded, with a focus on value delivery, cost discipline, and operational performance.
- Resilient and decisive under pressure, particularly during security incidents or critical vendor escalations.
- Genuine passion for technology, security, and cloud innovation as enablers of business growth.
The expected compensation for this position is:
$243,000.00 USD - $304,000.00 USD
Pay is based on a number of factors including market location, qualifications, skills, and experience.
Live Nation Entertainment will never request payment or equipment purchases as part of the hiring process. Recruiters will only contact candidates from official Live Nation or affiliated brand email domains.
See all 152+ Platform Engineering Manager Jobs
Sign up for free to unlock all listings, filter by visa type, and get alerts for new Platform Engineering Manager roles.
Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding Visa Sponsorship as a Platform Engineering Manager
Target companies with dedicated immigration counsel
Large tech firms and well-funded scaleups typically have in-house immigration teams or retained law firms, which makes H-1B sponsorship faster and more reliable. Smaller companies often lack the infrastructure to sponsor management-level engineering roles.
Frame your degree as directly relevant to the role
USCIS approves Platform Engineering Manager petitions most cleanly when your degree is in computer science, software engineering, or information systems. A general business degree paired with strong engineering experience is harder to defend during a Request for Evidence.
Document your team leadership and technical scope
Sponsoring employers must show the role qualifies as a specialty occupation. Concrete evidence of platform ownership, headcount managed, and infrastructure decisions strengthens the petition and reduces the chance of USCIS questioning the management-to-technical ratio.
Ask about cap-exempt sponsorship if you're in academia or research
Universities, nonprofit research institutions, and government-affiliated organizations are exempt from the H-1B annual cap. Platform engineering leadership roles at these organizations can be filed any time of year without waiting for the lottery.
Consider the O-1A if you have a strong professional track record
Platform Engineering Managers with patents, published work, speaking engagements at major conferences, or recognized contributions to open-source infrastructure may qualify for the O-1A, which has no cap and no lottery requirement.
Use Migrate Mate to filter for verified sponsoring employers
Not every job posting that mentions visa sponsorship will actually follow through for a management-level engineering hire. Migrate Mate surfaces roles from employers with documented sponsorship history, saving significant time during your search.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Platform Engineering Manager role qualify as a specialty occupation for H-1B purposes?
Yes, in most cases. USCIS evaluates whether the position normally requires at least a bachelor's degree in a specific technical field. Platform Engineering Manager roles typically require a degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related discipline, and that direct connection is what satisfies the specialty occupation standard. Hybrid roles that lean heavily toward general people management with minimal technical scope carry more risk during adjudication.
What degree do I need for an employer to sponsor my H-1B as a Platform Engineering Manager?
A bachelor's degree or higher in computer science, software engineering, information systems, or a closely related field is the strongest foundation. Degrees in unrelated fields create complications even if you have years of hands-on platform experience. If your degree field doesn't match, three years of specialized work experience can substitute for each year of missing education, but this pathway requires more documentation and attorney support.
Are Platform Engineering Manager roles common among H-1B sponsoring employers?
Yes. Infrastructure and platform leadership is consistently among the more actively sponsored engineering management categories, particularly at cloud-native companies, enterprise software firms, and large-scale SaaS businesses. These employers file high volumes of H-1B visa petitions annually and typically have established processes. Migrate Mate lists Platform Engineering Manager openings specifically from employers with verified sponsorship history, which narrows your search considerably.
Can I transfer my H-1B to a new Platform Engineering Manager role mid-cycle?
Yes. H-1B portability allows you to change employers and begin working for the new company as soon as they file a transfer petition, without waiting for approval, as long as your previous H-1B was approved and you've maintained valid status. The new employer still needs to file a fresh Labor Condition Application and I-129 petition. The specialty occupation analysis restarts, so the new role needs to meet the same technical degree requirements.
Does my seniority as a manager reduce my chances of H-1B approval compared to an individual contributor engineer?
Not inherently, but the risk profile is different. USCIS scrutinizes management roles more carefully to confirm that day-to-day duties require a specialized degree rather than general administrative oversight. Platform Engineering Managers whose work involves hands-on architecture decisions, technical roadmaps, and direct systems ownership fare better than those whose role is primarily headcount and budget management. Clear job duty documentation from the employer is critical.
What is the prevailing wage requirement for sponsored Platform Engineering Manager jobs?
U.S. employers sponsoring a visa must pay at least the prevailing wage, which is what workers in the same role, area, and experience level typically earn. The Department of Labor sets this rate to make sure companies aren't hiring foreign workers simply because they'd accept lower pay than a U.S. worker. It varies by job title, location, and experience. You can look up current prevailing wage rates for any occupation and location using the OFLC Wage Search page.