Job Specifications
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 Senior DevOps/Kafka Engineer, you will bring your technical skills to a hospitality company with an award-winning culture. On the Enterprise DevOps team reporting to Director Enterprise DevOps, you will support MarTech, Payments, and Property Engagement projects.
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
Design, scale, and maintain resilient Kafka environments using AWS MSK
Maintain lifecycle automation for CI/CD toolsets, with a strong focus on GitLab CI pipelines — including YAML syntax, reusable templates, and pipeline optimization
Monitor and optimize Kafka performance, availability, and security
Support containerized workloads running in AWS/EKS and act as a DevOps engineer at heart — a generalist with broad knowledge across infrastructure, CI/CD, observability, and application enablement
How You Will Collaborate With Others
Partner with software engineers to define and maintain well-architected Kafka topics and schemas
Work with cloud engineers to build a scalable CI/CD pipeline integrated with MSK
Support cross-functional teams in troubleshooting and improving Kafka-based workflows
What Projects You Will Take Ownership Of
Drive the MSK/Kafka roadmap, including upgrades, observability, and architectural improvements
Lead initiatives to improve Kafka topic governance, schema registry usage, and message reliability
Promote best practices for Kafka usage across engineering teams
WHY YOU'LL BE A GREAT FIT
You Have These Minimum Qualifications
Three (3) years of professional work experience within Technology or a related field
Two (2) years of experience working with Amazon Web Services cloud environments
Two (2) years of experience monitoring and analyzing DevOps pipelines and practices, identifying areas for improvement, optimization, and automation
Two (2) years of recent experience managing CI/CD pipelines using Gitlab
One (1) year of recent experience administering Kafka
Experience with Bamboo or similar build and deployment tools
This is a hybrid role and would require to be near one of our three US office locations (McLean, Dallas, Memphis)
Travel up to 10%
It Would Be Useful If You Have
Bachelor's Degree, or Associate's Degree plus 6+ years of Technology related experience, or High School Degree/GED plus 12+ years of Technology related experience
Five (5) + years of professional experience within Technology or a related field
Three (3) + years DevSecOps
Experience with AWS Cloud
Experience with Amazon Managed Streaming for Kafka (MSK)
Experience supporting 7x24, critically important systems
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.
Work Locations
Hilton - System Solutions - Dallas
Schedule
Full-time
Brand
Hilton Corporate
Shift
Day Job
About the Company
Hilton (NYSE: HLT) is a leading global hospitality company with a portfolio of 24 world-class brands comprising more than 8,400 properties and over 1.25 million rooms, in 140 countries and territories. Dedicated to fulfilling its founding vision to fill the earth with the light and warmth of hospitality, Hilton has welcomed over 3 billion guests in its more than 100-year history, was named the No. 1 World’s Best Workplace by Great Place to Work and Fortune and has been recognized as a global leader on the Dow Jones Sustainab...
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