Lead DevOps Engineer (contract)

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

Requirements:

• 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