Senior Lead DevOps Engineer

Lumen Technologies

5d • Remote

About The Position

Lumen is the trusted network for AI. We’re transforming how businesses connect, secure, and scale in an AI-driven world.
By connecting people, data, and applications quickly, securely, and effortlessly, we help organizations move faster and unlock what’s next.
At Lumen, people power progress. Our culture is built on teamwork, trust, and transparency, giving you the flexibility, support, and opportunity to make a lasting impact. We’re looking for top-tier talent ready to take on the challenge. Join us in building the future.

We are looking for a Senior Lead DevOps Engineer for our DevSecOps team. The Senior Lead DevOps Engineer understands the software development lifecycle (from coding to support) and has the understanding of various automation tools for developing digital pipelines. This role will shape how Lumen combines the latest technologies and services to automate all aspects of software deployment and instance lifecycle management. The ideal candidate is passionate about software automation and understands that quality is always a priority. This role will collaborate with key stakeholders across the organization including, but not limited to, executive leadership, product owners, developers, and testers to plan, develop, and implement solutions to optimize and automate business and technical processes. This role will have responsibility for translating product vision and turning requirements into reality.

Requirements

• 10+ years overall professional software development and operations experience.
• Proficiency in scripting language development experience (BASH).
• Proven experience in CI/CD, such as Jira and Confluence.
• Experience deploying and managing production systems on a cloud infrastructure, such as AWS, MS Azure or Google Cloud.
• Experience with engineering practices (test driven development, continuous integration, Jenkins, GitHub actions)

Responsibilities

• Work under agile principles in a CI/CD environment.
• Participate in meetings and conferences to gather requirements and discuss architectural decisions.
• Supportive and collaborative management ability in a team environment, as well as proven customer-facing management skills
• Participate in internal meetings to review solutions, all dependencies, actions and timelines.
• Apply a thorough understanding of deploying and managing application lifecycles to interpret customer business needs and processes.
• Making data driven decisions to improve resilience, and service quality.
• Develop reusable software components and tools for DevOps.
• Collaborate with other developers, testers, and system engineers to ensure quality product enhancements.
• Knowledge on how to troubleshoot and resolve technical issues in a test and product environments
• Ability to identify, assess and integrate various open source technologies and cloud services
• Analyze current technology utilized within the company and develop steps and processes to improve and expand upon them
• Work with the development team to improve the system architecture.
• Mentor and train other DevOps engineers and seek to continually improve processes

Benefits

• Lumen offers a comprehensive package featuring a broad range of Health, Life, Voluntary Lifestyle benefits and other perks that enhance your physical, mental, emotional and financial wellbeing.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees