Hilton · 1 day ago
Senior DevOps/Kafka Engineer
Addison, TX
Full-time
Hybrid
Mid, Senior Level
3+ years expHilton is a leading global hospitality company known for its award-winning workplace culture. As a Senior DevOps/Kafka Engineer, you will design and maintain Kafka environments, optimize CI/CD pipelines, and collaborate with teams to improve Kafka-based workflows.
HospitalityLeisureResorts
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
Qualification
Required
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%
Preferred
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
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)
Learn more about the rest of our benefits
Company
Hilton
Hilton is a hospitality company, owns luxury and full-service hotels and resorts, and focused-service hotels.
10001+ employees
H1B Sponsorship
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2022 (3)
2020 (2)
Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$10.5BKey Investors
Pershing Square Capital ManagementHNA Group
2025-12-01Post Ipo Debt· $1B
2025-07-01Post Ipo Debt· $1B
2024-09-05Post Ipo Debt· $1B
Leadership Team
Christopher Nassetta
President and CEO
Kevin Jacobs
Chief Financial Officer
Recent News
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