Job DescriptionThis role is based at one of our corporate offices in McLean, VA, Dallas, TX, or Memphis, TN
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 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 Pipeline and Platform Engineering, you will support projects at the forefront of hospitality technology progress.
What you'll do during a typical day:- 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).
- Understand new architectural concepts and recommend improvements from an infrastructure and security perspective.
- Understand and support API Gateways / API Management platforms (e.g., WSO2, Apigee, Kong, AWS API Gateway, MuleSoft).
- Understand API lifecycle management including design, versioning, security (OAuth2/JWT), throttling, and monitoring.
How you'll collaborate with others:- Provide technical leadership and implementation guidance for UI, APIs, and microservices.
- Work with development teams to guide best practices, design patterns, and operational standards.
- Support reliability engineering efforts and participate in on-call rotations for mission-critical and 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).
- Drive the MSK/Kafka roadmap, including upgrades, observability, and architectural improvements
- 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 StayYou have these minimum qualifications:- Seven (7) years of professional work experience in Technology or related field
- Five (5) years with CI tools such as GitLab (preferred), or Bamboo.
- Four (4) years architecting and developing automation to support Continuous Delivery.
- Four (4) years administering Kubernetes.
- Four (4) years on AWS cloud platforms
- Proficiency in scripting/programming in Bash
- Experience supporting reliability efforts, on-call rotations
- Experience deploying and operating API platforms in Kubernetes environments (EKS preferred)
- 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
- Ten (10) + years of professional work experience in Technology or related field
- Five (5) years of CI tool experience (GitLab or Bamboo), Cloud and Kubernetes platforms.
- Three (3) years of management experience
- Scripting experience in Python or Terraform
