[Hiring] Senior Lead DevOps Engineer @Lumen Technologies

Role Description

The Senior Lead DevOps Engineer will play a critical role in bringing strategic vision to life by building the platforms, processes, and automation capabilities that enable innovation to scale efficiently and reliably. This individual will lead the advancement of modern software delivery practices, designing and implementing digital pipelines that accelerate the path from development to deployment while maintaining high standards for quality, security, and operational performance.

• Establish scalable DevOps capabilities.
• Enhance platform reliability.
• Enable faster delivery of business-critical solutions.
• Serve as a technical leader and trusted partner.
• Help teams adopt best practices and improve operational resilience.
• Support the organization’s long-term digital transformation objectives.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree with 10+ years of experience or Master’s Degree with 8+ years experience.
• 5 years overall professional software development experience.
• 3 years of scripting language development experience (BASH).
• Familiar with all aspects of MV frameworks.
• Proven AI development experience.
• Advanced Linux admin and programming skills is nice to have.
• Familiar with the whole web stack, including protocols and web server optimization techniques.
• Experience with API integration and Micro Services and Containers.
• Experience deploying and managing production systems on a cloud infrastructure.
• Detailed understanding of networking at all layers.
• Experience with good engineering practices (test driven development, continuous integration: Jenkins).
• In-depth knowledge of cloud and virtualization technologies like Amazon Web.
• Familiar with concepts related to continuous integration and continuous deployment.
• Experience with Powershell or Dotnet pipelines valued but not required.

Requirements

• Apply a thorough understanding of deploying and managing application lifecycles to interpret customer business needs and processes.
• Make data-driven decisions to improve resilience and service quality.
• Work with the development team to improve the system architecture.
• Supportive and collaborative management ability in a team environment, as well as proven customer-facing management skills.
• Proven experience with CI/CD tools, such as Jira and Confluence.
• Detailed, hands-on experience with public cloud resources and services such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud.
• Knowledge on how to troubleshoot and resolve technical issues in 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 under agile principles.
• Work with AI development tools such as GitHub Copilot, agentic coding, Cursor, Claude Code and assist teams in adopting them.
• Assist other DevOps engineers in creating practical demonstrations of proposed solutions and demonstrating them to other members of the team.
• Mentor and train other DevOps engineers and seek to continually improve processes.
• Participate in internal meetings to review solutions, all dependencies, actions, and timelines.
• Collaborate with other developers, testers, and system engineers to ensure quality product enhancements.
• All other duties as assigned.

Benefits

• Comprehensive package featuring a broad range of Health, Life, Voluntary Lifestyle benefits and other perks.
• Support for physical, mental, emotional, and financial wellbeing.