Senior DevOps, Kafka Engineer
***This role is based at one of our corporate offices in Memphis, TN, McLean, VA, or Dallas, TX***
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 DevOps, Kafka Engineer, you will bring your technical skills to a hospitality company with an award-winning culture. On the Enterprise DevOps team reporting to Director Enterprise DevOps, you will support MarTech, Payments, and Property Engagement projects.
HOW WE WILL SUPPORT YOU
Hilton is proud to support the mental and physical wellbeing of all Team Members so they can Thrive personally and professionally in a diverse and inclusive environment, thanks to programs and benefits such as:
- Go Hilton travel program: 110 nights of discounted travel with room rates as low as $40/night
- Hilton Shares: Our employee stock purchase program (ESPP) - you can purchase Hilton shares at a 15 percent discount
- Paid parental leave for eligible Team Members, including partners and adoptive parents
- Mental health resources including free counseling through our Employee Assistance Program
- Paid Time Off (PTO)
- Learn more about the rest of our benefits
At Hilton, we believe every Team Member is a leader. We are committed to offering leadership development opportunities and programs through every step of a Team Member’s career journey and at every level, both in our hotels and across corporate.
**Available benefits may vary depending upon terms and conditions of employment and are subject to the terms and conditions of the plans.
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:
- Design, scale, and maintain resilient Kafka environments using AWS MSK
- Maintain lifecycle automation for CI/CD toolsets, with a strong focus on GitLab CI pipelines — including YAML syntax, reusable templates, and pipeline optimization
- Monitor and optimize Kafka performance, availability, and security
- Support containerized workloads running in AWS/EKS and act as a DevOps engineer at heart — a generalist with broad knowledge across infrastructure, CI/CD, observability, and application enablement
How you will collaborate with others:
- Partner with software engineers to define and maintain well-architected Kafka topics and schemas
- Work with cloud engineers to build a scalable CI/CD pipeline integrated with MSK
- Support cross-functional teams in troubleshooting and improving Kafka-based workflows
What projects you will take ownership of:
- Drive the MSK/Kafka roadmap, including upgrades, observability, and architectural improvements
- Lead initiatives to improve Kafka topic governance, schema registry usage, and message reliability
- Promote best practices for Kafka usage across engineering teams
WHY YOU'LL BE A GREAT FIT
You have these minimum qualifications:
- Three (3) years of professional work experience within Technology or a related field
- Two (2) years of experience overseeing DevOps and CI/CD pipelines in Gitlab, including monitoring, optimization, and automation
- Two (2) years of experience working with Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud environments
- Two (2) years of recent experience deploying, managing, and troubleshooting containerized applications using Kubernetes
- One (1) year of experience administering Kafka
- Experience with Bamboo or similar build and deployment tools
- This is a hybrid role and requires being near one of our three US office locations (McLean, Dallas, Memphis)
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
- Five (5) + years of professional experience within Technology or a related field
- Three (3) years of experience in DevSecOps
- Experience with Amazon Managed Streaming for Kafka (MSK)
- Experience supporting 7x24, critically important systems
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.
