Senior Lead DevOps Engineer

Lumen is the trusted network for the AI‑powered world, connecting people, data, and applications through their expansive fiber network. The Senior Lead DevOps Engineer will play a critical role in building platforms and automation capabilities that enable innovation to scale efficiently and reliably, while collaborating across various teams to address complex challenges.

Responsibilities:

• 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
• 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 a test and product environments
• Ability to identify, assess and integrate various open source technologies and cloud services
• Analyse 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 meeting to review solution, all dependencies, actions and timelines
• Collaborate with other developers, testers, and system engineers to ensure quality product enhancements
• All other duties as assigned

Requirements:

• 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
• Advanced Linux admin and programming skills
• 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
• 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 a test and product environments
• Ability to identify, assess and integrate various open source technologies and cloud services
• Analyse 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 meeting to review solution, all dependencies, actions and timelines
• Collaborate with other developers, testers, and system engineers to ensure quality product enhancements
• Experience with Powershell or Dotnet pipelines valuate but not required