Lead Platform Engineer Standards

***This role is based at one of our corporate offices in Memphis, TN, McLean, VA, or Dallas, TX***

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 Lead Platform Engineer Standards, you will bring your technical skills to a hospitality company with an award-winning culture. On the Infrastructure Platform Engineering Standards team reporting to the Senior Manager Infrastructure Platform Engineering Standards you will support projects including PEP and AWX.

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: 100 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)

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.

HOW YOU WILL MAKE AN IMPACT

Your role is important and below are some of the fundamental job duties that make your work unique.

What your day-to-day will be like:

• Work with security to validate a potential new release (ie Ubuntu 24.04.1).
• Create a new custom ISO for our engineers to install on the servers.
• Design and run templates and workflows for onboarding new devices in AWX.
• Work with our support team for any escalations.

How you will collaborate with others:

• Work with our networking and security teams to troubleshoot potential issues
• Weekly team meeting to review progress from the week, and plan for activities the following week
• Work with our support team to deal with any escalations of problems in the field

What deliverables you will take ownership of:

• Continue the migration from our Ansible server to AWX, including setting up scheduled jobs, and workflows for onboarding.
• Work on an updated build process
• Roadmap to update our estate of Ubuntu 20.04 servers to 22.04

WHY YOU'LL BE A GREAT FIT

You have these minimum qualifications:

• Five (5) years of professional work experience in Technology or related field
• Four (4) years of work experience as a Linux engineer
• Three (3) years of hands-on experience with Ubuntu, LTS upgrades, scripting (Bash & Python)
• Three (3) years of hands-on experience in configuration management (Ansible, AWX), security hardening, cloud-init
• This is a hybrid role and would require to be near one of our three US office locations (Memphis, McLean, Dallas)
• Travel up to 2 work trips per year

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
• Seven (7) years of professional work experience in Technology or a related field
• Six (6) years of work experience as a Linux engineer

WHAT IT IS LIKE WORKING FOR HILTON

Hilton, the #1 World's Best Workplace, is a leading global hospitality company with a diverse portfolio of world-class brands. Dedicated to filling the earth with the light and warmth of hospitality, we have welcomed more than 3 billion guests in our more-than 100-year history. Hilton is proud to have an award-winning workplace culture and we are consistently named among one of the World’s Best Workplaces.

It is the policy of Hilton to employ qualified persons without regard to color, race, creed, religion, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, sex or gender (including pregnancy, childbirth and related medication conditions), gender identity or gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, military service, status as a protected veteran, disability, protected medical condition as defined by applicable law, genetic information, or any other protected group status as defined by and subject to applicable federal, state and local laws.

We provide reasonable accommodations to qualified persons with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the position and provide other benefits and privileges of employment in accordance with applicable law.