Lead Data Operations Engineer
Company: Hilton
Location: McLean, VA (Remote)
Salary: $175,500 - $180,500 a year
Type: Full-time
Remote: Yes
Posted: 2026-07-01
About this role
### Exceptional Hospitality Starts with You
Location: 7930 Jones Branch Dr. McLean, VA 22102 (position allow 100% full remote work from anywhere in the U.S.)
Salary: $175,500 - $180,500
Benefits: Health/Dental/Vision ins., 401(K), PTO, Life/Disability Ins. & more
What will I be doing?
Collaborate with teams (Cloud Operations, Global Information Security, Cloud DBAs, and Networking). Design, implement, and maintain AWS infrastructure and services within a managed service environment to implement infrastructure platforms that meet business requirements. Design, implement, and maintain AWS data lake environment. Lead migration efforts from Infrastructure for migration of legacy BigData Solution into EMR. Collaborate with Data Science teams to establish best practices for data ingestion and processing in the data lake, ensuring support for business users. Collaborate with platform, cloud operations teams to implement Terraform infrastructure, manage system installations, patches, and upgrades. Manage EMR, Talend, and IICS cluster workloads. Address performance issues in tools like Alation, MSTR, Tableau, and Alteryx. Work with AWS services such as EMR, IAM, EC2, VPC, Lambda, S3, EKS, ECS, KMS, Kinesis, Config, CloudTrail, EventBridge, RDS, SNS, SQS, ELB, and ASG. Troubleshoot issues related to applications, data, cloud infrastructure, Linux, and automation scripts. The position supervises direct reports. Job requires up to 5% of domestic travel.
Requirements:
Bachelor's degree or equivalent, or higher, in Computer Science, Analytics, or a related field and five (5) years of progressive experience in Systems Engineering/Administration, or related occupation.
Requires progressive experience in data integration and proficiency in AWS cloud and Hadoop Big Data architecture; utilizing HDP ecosystem, CI/CD pipelines, and configuration management; using Linux, including Solaris, Ubuntu, CentOS, AIX, HP-UX, and Windows (NT/2000/XP/Vista/7/8); uti...