Remote Lead Site Reliability Engineer: Azure Gov & CI/CD

Lumen; Madison (WI); Remote; USD 106,000 - 141,000; Full time

Job summary

Lumen is seeking a Lead Site Reliability Engineer to drive transformational change and operational excellence across Azure Public and Azure Government clouds. You will own platform engineering standards, design CI/CD and observability systems, and partner with development teams to deliver scalable, secure, high-availability services.

This fully remote role within the United States offers the chance to lead container platforms, automate pipelines with Jenkins and GitHub Actions, and implement IaC

Qualifications

• 8+ years in DevOps/Platform/SRE roles; 2+ years leading teams or cross-functional initiatives.
• Deep expertise in Azure (Public/Gov) cloud services and resource management.
• Hands-on with AKS, Helm 3, Flux CD (GitOps), Docker.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate AKS clusters with enterprise guardrails (RBAC, pod security policies, node pools, autoscaling, upgrade strategies).
• Implement GitOps with Flux CD; define Helm chart standards and manage lifecycle via Helm 3.
• Own container platform best practices: Docker image standards, multi-stage builds, SBOM, vulnerability scanning, and base image governance.

Skills

Azure cloud

GitOps

CI/CD automation

Prometheus Grafana

Docker

Nginx Kong

Python Go TS

Education

AZ-104 Certification

AZ-305 Certification

AZ-400 Certification

Terraform Associate

Tools

Terraform

Bicep

Kubernetes

Docker

Helm 3

Flux CD

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Azure Key Vault

Job description

Lumen is seeking a Lead Site Reliability Engineer to drive transformational change and operational excellence across Azure Public and Azure Government clouds. You will own platform engineering standards, design CI/CD and observability systems, and partner with development teams to deliver scalable, secure, high-availability services.

This fully remote role within the United States offers the chance to lead container platforms, automate pipelines with Jenkins and GitHub Actions, and implement IaC