Senior Lead DevOps Engineer

Lumen Technologies provides secure, high-performance connectivity across cloud, edge, and AI workloads through its expansive fiber network and connected ecosystem. The Senior Lead DevOps Engineer will lead the development of scalable DevOps platforms, digital delivery pipelines, automation capabilities, and infrastructure lifecycle practices while improving reliability, security, and operational performance. The role also partners across leadership, product, engineering, and quality teams to drive digital transformation and mentor DevOps engineers.

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
• Experience with Powershell or Dotnet pipelines