Lead Hybrid Network 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:

• Gather, analyze, and document requirements from various teams and work with vendors to build those solutions.
• Mentor junior engineers in troubleshooting, planning, communication, and more.
• Lead multi-phased, multi-year projects as a leader on the Network Engineering team.
• Review, develop, and monitor baseline and growth metrics/indicators to ensure standardized platform growth and resiliency.
• Contribute to and maintain high-quality documentation about various systems in Hilton's Global Network.

How you will collaborate with others:

• Cross-functionally: You will be joining a team of cross-functional experts in various network technologies. Your expertise will help guide decisions and implementation across many parts of Hilton's network. You support and guide junior engineers to deliver solid, tangible outcomes that directly improve our customers' day-to-day experience. Strong documentation and communication are critical for success in this position.
• Internally: As a member of the Global Network Engineering team, you will work closely with DevOps and Cloud teams within Hilton to implement highly available, secure, and scalable network infrastructure to support Hilton's core systems.
• Externally: You will work closely with Hilton partners and vendors to ensure platform stability. Strong vendor management skills are crucial to succeed in this role.

What deliverables you will take ownership of:

• Oversee all infrastructure deployments from the initial design phase to operations for DNS and Load Balancing, particularly BIND9, AVI NSX Load Balancers, and AWS Route53.
• As a subject matter expert in AVI NSX Load Balancers in conjunction with Hilton vendors, provide guidance and hands-on support for Hilton's global implementation, including AVI Control Plane, Data Plane, and GSLB.
• Documenting complex technical requirements and architectures

WHY YOU'LL BE A GREAT FIT

You have these minimum qualifications:

• Five (5) years of professional experience in Technology or a related field
• Five (5) years of proven Network Engineering expertise that includes hands-on experience
• Two (2) years of experience with AVI NSX Load Balancing technology and expertise in managing the platform in a hybrid implementation
• Experience with Amazon AWS, with core Cloud Networking products such as ALB, NLB, or CloudWAN
• Experience managing both traditional and cloud-native DNS solutions such as BIND9 and AWS Route53
• Demonstrated experience with Infrastructure-as-code tooling such as Terraform, Ansible, OpenTofu, or Pulumi.
• Demonstrated experience working in an international technology environment managing large, globally distributed hybrid networks
• 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
• Seven (7) + years of professional experience in Technology or a related field
• Experience in TLS/SSL certificate management
• Experience with programming languages such as Python or Go
• Experience with various network monitoring solutions such as SolarWinds or Datadog
• Experience with containerization products such as Podman, Docker, or Kubernetes
• Experience with F5 LTM Load Balancers
• Expert-level knowledge in load-balancing strategies and technologies

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.