Lead DevOps Engineer
HOW YOU WILL MAKE AN IMPACT
Your role is important and below are some of the fundamental job duties that make your work unique.
What your day-to-day will be like:
- 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.
What deliverables you will 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.
WHY YOU'LL BE A GREAT FIT
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.
- This is a hybrid role and would require to be near our Memphis, Dallas, or McLean office locations.
- 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
WHAT IT IS LIKE WORKING FOR HILTON
Hilton, the #1 World's Best Workplace, is a leading global hospitality company with a diverse portfolio of world-class brands. Dedicated to filling the earth with the light and warmth of hospitality, we have welcomed more than 3 billion guests in our more-than 100-year history. Hilton is proud to have an award-winning workplace culture and we are consistently named among one of the World’s Best Workplaces. Check out the Hilton Careers blog and Instagram to learn more about what it’s like to be on Team Hilton!
We provide reasonable accommodations to qualified persons with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the position and provide other benefits and privileges of employment in accordance with applicable law. Please contact us if you require an accommodation during the application process.