Senior Lead DevOps Engineer

JobID: 207306

Category: Technology

JobSchedule: Full time

Posted Date: 2026-06-01T04:00:00+00:00

JobShift:

Equal Opportunity Employer: EOE, including disability/vets

Exceptional Hospitality Starts with You

This 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 nextgeneration cloud platforms and automation solutions.
• Devise and evolve codedriven automation strategies that ensure environment consistency across development, testing, and production.
• Build longterm 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 oncall rotations for mission-critical and revenueimpacting 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 Stay

You 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, oncall 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