Senior Azure SRE Lead - CI/CD, AKS & Security (Remote)

Lumen; Austin (TX); Remote; USD 116,000 - 155,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Remote work within US

Competitive compensation

Job summary

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

This remote US role demands 8+ years in DevOps/Platform/SRE with hands-on AKS, Terraform, GitOps, and strong automation.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in DevOps/Platform/SRE roles with leadership experience.
• Deep expertise in Azure public and government cloud services.
• Hands-on with AKS, Helm 3, Flux CD (GitOps), and Docker.
• Experience with Prometheus & Grafana for observability.
• Proficiency in Nginx and Kong ingress gateways.
• CI/CD automation using Jenkins and GitHub Actions.
• Strong automation and debugging skills (Python/Go/TS).
• IaC with Terraform/Bicep and secure SDLC integrations.
• Ability to obtain GSA Tier 2 Suitability Clearance.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate AKS clusters with enterprise guardrails.
• Implement GitOps with Flux CD; define Helm standards and lifecycle.
• Own container platform best practices and image governance.
• Configure Nginx/Kong with auth, TLS, and WAF integration.
• Stand up Prometheus metrics and Grafana dashboards; SLO/SLA visualization.
• Lead Jenkins pipelines and GitHub Actions workflows.
• Build IaC and policy-as-code pipelines with Terraform/Bicep and validations.
• Architect secure Azure Key Vault integration and cert management.
• Design Azure Networking in hub-spoke models and manage data services.

Skills

Leadership

Azure cloud

AKS

GitOps

CI/CD automation

Prometheus/Grafana

Nginx/Kong

Terraform

Python/Go/TS

Jenkins/GitHub Actions

Tools

Flux CD

Docker

Helm 3

Terraform / Bicep

Azure Key Vault

Cert-manager

Kubernetes

Job description

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

This remote US role demands 8+ years in DevOps/Platform/SRE with hands-on AKS, Terraform, GitOps, and strong automation.