Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Hilton is seeking a highly skilled and experienced technology professional to join their dynamic team in a hybrid capacity. The Lead DevOps Engineer will be responsible for architecting and delivering next-generation cloud platforms, DevOps solutions, and automation strategies that drive consistency, reliability, and scalability across the enterprise.
Responsibilities
- Architect next-generation cloud platforms and automation solutions to support enterprise-wide technology goals
- Devise and continuously evolve code-driven automation strategies that ensure environment consistency across development, testing, and production
- Build long-term automation solutions using scripting and programming languages such as Groovy, Shell, Python, Terraform, or Java/JavaScript
- Provide technical leadership and implementation guidance for UI, APIs, and microservices
- Collaborate with development teams to guide best practices, design patterns, and operational standards
- Evaluate 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 and 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, with GitLab preferred
- Enable seamless, secure, and highly available software builds and deployments across Agile teams
- Configure, tune, deploy, and operate Kubernetes clusters, with EKS preferred
- Maintain containerized applications using Docker or similar technologies
- Travel up to 10% as required by business needs
Skills
- 5+ years of experience in technology or a related field is required
- Strong proficiency in scripting and programming, including Bash, and ideally Python or Terraform
- Deep expertise in CI/CD tooling, with hands-on experience in GitLab or Bamboo
- Demonstrated ability to architect and develop automation frameworks supporting Continuous Delivery
- Extensive knowledge of Kubernetes administration, including EKS cluster configuration and operations
- Solid experience working within AWS cloud platforms
- Familiarity with containerization technologies such as Docker
- Strong understanding of DevOps principles, Agile methodologies, and software delivery best practices
- Ability to assess infrastructure and security considerations within architectural design
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills to effectively guide and influence cross-functional teams
- Experience supporting reliability engineering efforts and participating in on-call rotations
- 4+ years of experience with CI tools such as GitLab (preferred) or Bamboo
- 4+ years of experience architecting and developing automation to support Continuous Delivery
- 3+ years of experience administering Kubernetes
- 3+ years of experience working on AWS cloud platforms
- 1+ or more years of lead experience is preferred
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