Senior Lead DevOps Architect - Remote

Lumen Technologies, Inc.

United States

Remote

USD 132,000 - 194,000

Full time

4 days ago

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Lumen Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Senior Lead DevOps Engineer for a remote US-based position. The role focuses on building scalable platforms, automating pipelines, and improving deployment reliability across cloud environments.

You will lead DevOps practices, mentor engineers, and collaborate with product and engineering teams to drive AI-ready connectivity initiatives. Responsibilities include advancing CI/CD workflows, integrating various cloud services, and guiding infrastructure

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 (BASH).
Familiar with 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 valuate but not required.

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.