Lead DevOps 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 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 innovation .

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:

• 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.