Systems Engineer - Senior

Additional Information Senior Systems Engineer – Public Cloud (Multiple Positions) Bethesda, MD

Job Number

Job Category Information Technology

Location Marriott International HQ, 7750 Wisconsin Avenue, Bethesda, Maryland, United States, 20814VIEW ON MAP (

Schedule Full Time

Located Remotely? Y

Position Type Management

Bonus Eligible: Y

Expiration Date: 10/29/2025

Marriott International, Inc.: Senior Systems Engineer – Public Cloud (Multiple Positions) Bethesda, MD

DUTIES:

• Ensure stability, integrity, and efficient operation of information systems and technologies that support core customer-facing and enterprise-facing products and platforms.

• Serve as a subject matter expert in a complex array of full stack solutions.

• Perform research, analysis, design, creation, and implementation of systems to meet current and future requirements.

• Combine both software and systems engineering to build and operate large-scale, distributed, fault-tolerant systems.

• Work with engineering, application and enterprise/solution architects to develop and implement services, monitor, report and tune infrastructure platforms.

• Develop full stack automation, infrastructure as code across Marriott public cloud platforms including Compute/Storage, Virtualization, Operating Systems, Container Platforms,

• Middleware, Database, Business Intelligence, Tools and Automation through “Infrastructure As Code”.

• Provides technical leadership, oversight, governance and direction for services related to Marriott solution delivery.

• Provide and present status, analysis and reporting to internal stakeholders, Executive Management and Senior Leadership.

• Train and/or mentor other team members, and peers as appropriate.

• Identify opportunities to enhance the service delivery, operations and continual service improvement processes.

• Develop implementation plans, test plans, and timelines for projects and tasks.

• Responsible for project inception including requirements gathering and architecting, costs and chargeback modeling, infrastructure-as- code development and configuration

• management.

• Work with Enterprise Architecture to provide technology and cloud native service governance for technology steering committees, with cost and support directives.

• Promote Marriott International Cloud Platform capabilities including Cloud Native Services for cost effective solutions against architecture.

• Promote Containers-as-a-Service Kubernetes methodologies for orchestrated scheduling of portable containers across global cloud platforms.

• Monitor and drive industry best practice Continuous Delivery principals for improvement of application and feature deployment velocity with minimal downtime.

• Work with MI Security for governance and application of Tier0/1 Security tooling across the entire fleet of cloud virtual machines including automated OS, access, log, DDOS and code

• monitoring and auditing.

• Own relationships with tooling and Cloud vendors including Red Hat, Docker, Chef, Amazon, Google.

• Coordination between onshore/offshore engineering and operations teams; handover and acceptance of L1/2 shared services Ops.

REQUIREMENTS: Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent degree* in an engineering or computer science discipline followed by 7 years of progressively responsible information technology experience.

OR

Master’s degree or foreign equivalent degree* in an engineering or computer science discipline and 5 years of information technology experience.

*Any combination of education and experience that has been evaluated to be the equivalent of a U.S. Bachelor’s degree will be accepted.

Experience must include:

• 5 years of Linux experience

• 5 years of experience with Cloud technologies including Iaas/Paas/Saas deployments on Public Cloud and Cloud native services

• 5 years experience with OS scripting and automation

• 5 years experience in Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) modeling including infrastructure as code development (Terraform or similar) or infrastructure engineering at enterprise scale

• 5 years experience in automated configuration management (Ansible, Chef, Puppet)

• 5 years experience with cloud computing technology and its concepts (AWS, Azure, AliCloud, GCP) and/or virtualized (VMWare, OpenStack)

• 5 years experience in container operations (Docker, OpenShift Enterprise, GKE, EKS)

• 5 years of experience with Orchestration (Docker, Racher, Kubernetes)

• 4 years of experience operating in an agile scrum environment.

• 4 years of experience in a delivery focused environment delivering incrementally at a fast pace in 2-week sprints

Any suitable combination of education, training and/or experience will be accepted.

100% remote; position may be performed from anywhere within the U.S. Travel to Marriott HQ in Bethesda, MD at least once per quarter

The salary range for this position is $126,500 to $168,400 annually. In addition to the annual salary, the position will be eligible to receive an annual bonus.

Washington Applicants Only: Employees will accrue 0.04616 PTO balance for every hour worked and eligible to receive minimum of 7 holidays annually.

All locations offer coverage for medical, dental, vision, health care flexible spending account, dependent care flexible spending account, life insurance, disability insurance, accident insurance, adoption expense reimbursements, paid parental leave, educational assistance, 401(k) plan, stock purchase plan, discounts at Marriott properties, commuter benefits, employee assistance plan, and childcare discounts. Benefits are subject to terms and conditions, which may include rules regarding eligibility, enrollment, waiting period, contribution, benefit limits, election changes, benefit exclusions, and others.

The application deadline for this position is 35 days after the date of this posting, September 23, 2025.

At Marriott International, we are dedicated to being an equal opportunity employer, welcoming all and providing access to opportunity. We actively foster an environment where the unique backgrounds of our associates are valued and celebrated. Our greatest strength lies in the rich blend of culture, talent, and experiences of our associates.  We are committed to non-discrimination on any protected basis, including disability, veteran status, or other basis protected by applicable law.

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