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Events System Engineer, Event Productions

Amazon· Operations, IT, & Support Engineering
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Arlington, VA$60.7k - $106.3kFull-timePosted 5mo ago

About the role

The Events Systems Engineer is responsible for the health, maintenance, and operational reliability of technical production systems during events, collaborating with production teams to design, program, and execute high-profile event productions and delivering top-quality audio, lighting, video, and production technology.

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with System and Production Engineers within the Event Production organization, ensuring system quality; operating procedures and industry best practices are followed with a safety-first mindset
  • Train, develop and coordinate opportunities with the production team to improve their skillsets and develop their knowledge base by identifying process improvements
  • Pre-Event: Provide event setup coordination of assigned technical systems and recommendations for technical resource scheduling and labor script
  • Pre-Event: Test and troubleshoot equipment use cases, evaluating risks to properly gauge and act on immediate optimum solutions, determining which cases need to be escalated to management
  • Pre-Event: Create and implement systematic backups for production technologies, ensuring teams and clients understand backup procedures if a problem occurs
  • Event Execution: Support and partner with Operational Engineers to solve current problems and proactively implement solutions to prevent issues before they occur
  • Event Execution: Quickly identify and resolve problems, escalating complex issues to management maintaining production stability
  • Event Execution: Effectively and quickly troubleshoot, identifying root cause, evaluating risks and acting on immediate solutions to properly gauge optimum solutions for the best quality attainable
  • Post-Event: Assist with strike of event space(s), ensuring correct equipment handling and storage
  • Post-Event: Participate in post-event feedback, discussions, and surveys
  • A day in the life: Communicate and coordinate proactively with event teams, customers, business partners, third-party vendors, and engineers; maintain weekly maintenance schedules; test equipment; optimize systems prior to events

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree
  • 4+ years in an entertainment / film / television / theatre production environment
  • Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot technical issues in live event environments
  • Ability to work adaptive event hours and travel domestically approximately 35% of the time

Skills

Required:Live event troubleshootingSystem maintenanceCollaboration with production teams

Benefits

  • Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage
  • Maternity and Parental Leave Options
  • Paid Time Off (PTO)
  • 401(k) Plan
Last updated Oct 25, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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