Lead DevOps Engineer
Company: Hilton
Location: McLean, VA, United States (Remote)
Salary: $90k - $145k per year
Type: Full-time
Remote: Yes
Posted: 2026-07-21
About this role
### Exceptional Hospitality Starts with You
*The location for this position is virtual/remote*
This is your chance to be a part of an in-house Technology team that's creating consumer-facing, modern 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 progress.
- 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.
Deliverables you'll 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.
### What It Takes to Make the Stay
You have these minimum qualifications:
- Five (5) years of experience in Technology or a related field.
- Four (4) years with CI tools such as ...