Senior DevOps, Kafka Engineer

About the position 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.

Responsibilities

• 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
• 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
• 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

Requirements

• Three (3) years of professional work experience within Technology or a related field
• Two (2) years of experience overseeing DevOps and CI/CD pipelines in Gitlab, including monitoring, optimization, and automation
• Two (2) years of experience working with Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud environments
• Two (2) years of recent experience deploying, managing, and troubleshooting containerized applications using Kubernetes
• One (1) year of experience administering Kafka
• Experience with Bamboo or similar build and deployment tools
• This is a hybrid role and requires being near one of our three US office locations (McLean, Dallas, Memphis)

Nice-to-haves

• 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 of experience in DevSecOps
• Experience with Amazon Managed Streaming for Kafka (MSK)
• Experience supporting 7x24, critically important systems

Benefits

• 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)

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