Senior Lead DevOps Engineer

Exceptional Hospitality Starts with You

This role is based at one of our corporate offices in McLean, VA, Dallas, TX, or Memphis, TN

This is your chance to be a part of an in-house Technology team that''s creating consumer-facing, cutting-edge technologies revolutionizing the hospitality industry around the world! As a Senior Lead DevOps Engineer, you will bring your technical skills to a hospitality company with an award-winning culture. On the DevOps team reporting to the Director Pipeline and Platform Engineering, you will support projects at the forefront of hospitality technology progress.

What you''ll do during a typical day:

• Architect next‑generation cloud platforms and automation solutions.
• Devise and evolve code‑driven automation strategies that ensure environment consistency across development, testing, and production.
• Build long‑term automation solutions using scripting and programming (Groovy, Shell, Python, Terraform, or Java/JavaScript).
• Understand new architectural concepts and recommend improvements from an infrastructure and security perspective.
• Understand and support API Gateways / API Management platforms (e.g., WSO2, Apigee, Kong, AWS API Gateway, MuleSoft).
• Understand API lifecycle management including design, versioning, security (OAuth2/JWT), throttling, and monitoring.

How you''ll collaborate with others:

• Provide technical leadership and implementation guidance for UI, APIs, and microservices.
• Work with development teams to guide best practices, design patterns, and operational standards.
• Support reliability engineering efforts and participate in on‑call rotations for mission-critical and revenue‑impacting cloud services.

Deliverables you''ll take ownership of:

• Design and implement enterprise DevOps architectures, reference patterns, and tooling strategies.
• Implement and maintain CI/CD tools and pipelines across the organization (GitLab preferred).
• Drive the MSK/Kafka roadmap, including upgrades, observability, and architectural improvements
• Enable seamless, secure, and available software builds and deployments across Agile teams.
• Configure, tune, deploy, and operate Kubernetes clusters (EKS preferred).
• Maintain containerized applications with Docker or similar technologies.

What It Takes to Make the Stay

You have these minimum qualifications:

• Seven (7) years of professional work experience in Technology or related field
• Five (5) years with CI tools such as GitLab (preferred), or Bamboo.
• Four (4) years architecting and developing automation to support Continuous Delivery.
• Four (4) years administering Kubernetes.
• Four (4) years on AWS cloud platforms
• Proficiency in scripting/programming in Bash
• Experience supporting reliability efforts, on‑call rotations
• Experience deploying and operating API platforms in Kubernetes environments (EKS preferred)
• This is a hybrid role and would require to be near one of our three US office locations (McLean, Dallas, Memphis)
• Travel up to 10%

It would be useful if you have:

• Bachelor''s Degree, or Associate''s Degree plus 6+ years of Technology related experience, or High School Degree/GED plus 12+ years of Technology related experience
• Ten (10) + years of professional work experience in Technology or related field
• Five (5) years of CI tool experience (GitLab or Bamboo), Cloud and Kubernetes platforms.
• Three (3) years of management experience
• Scripting experience in Python or Terraform

Join an Award-Winning Workplace Culture

At Hilton, we don't just deliver exceptional experiences for our guests-we build an exceptional workplace for the Team Members who make it all possible. As a global leader in hospitality, we've welcomed more than 3 billion guests worldwide, all while staying true to our founding vision: to fill the earth with the light and warmth of hospitality.

Our award-winning culture has earned us repeated recognition on the World's Best Workplaces list by Great Place to Work and Fortune. With our suite of world-class brands, and a company-wide commitment to providing the best stay for every guest, we're setting new standards for the future of travel.

Whether you're starting your career or exploring something new, Hilton supports your journey every step of the way. Come for the job, stay for the career-and help us make every stay a little more magical.

Curious about life at Hilton? Explore our Careers Blog to see why we're more than a great place to stay-we're a great place to work.