Lead DevOps Engineer

Exceptional Hospitality Starts with You
The location for this position is virtual/remote
This is your chance to be a part of an in-house Technology team that's creating consumer-facing, modern technologies revolutionizing the hospitality industry around the world! As a 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 of Pipeline and Platform Engineering, you will support projects at the forefront of hospitality technology progress.
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).
Provide technical leadership and implementation guidance for UI, APIs, and microservices.
Work with development teams to guide best practices, design patterns, and operational standards.
Understand new architectural concepts and recommend improvements from an infrastructure and security perspective.
Support reliability engineering efforts and participate in on‑call rotations for mission-critical & 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).
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:
Five (5) years of experience in Technology or a related field.
Four (4) years with CI tools such as GitLab (preferred), or Bamboo.
Four (4) years architecting and developing automation to support Continuous Delivery.
Three (3) years administering Kubernetes.
Three (3) years on AWS cloud platforms
Proficiency in scripting/programming in Bash
Experience supporting reliability efforts, on‑call rotations.
Travel up to 10%.
It would be useful if you have:
Bachelor's degree OR Associate's + 6 years tech experience OR HS/GED + 12 years tech experience.
Seven (7)+ years of technology experience.
Five (5) years of CI tool experience (GitLab or Bamboo), Cloud and Kubernetes platforms.
One (1) year of management experience
Scripting experience in Python or Terraform
How We'll Help You Thrive
At Hilton, the hospitality we're known for doesn't end with our guests. We proudly invest in our Team Members' well

Work arrangement
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