Lead DevOps Engineer

Hilton is a global leader in hospitality, seeking a Lead DevOps Engineer to join their in-house Technology team. This role involves architecting cloud platforms, implementing automation solutions, and providing technical leadership to enhance hospitality technology.

Responsibilities:

• 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
• 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

Requirements:

• 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%
• 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