Senior Lead DevOps Engineer

Lumen; Santa Fe (NM); Remote; USD 132,000 - 176,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Life insurance

Voluntary lifestyle benefits

Flexible work options

Job summary

Lumen seeks a Senior Lead DevOps Engineer to shape scalable platforms and automation across AI-ready connectivity initiatives. You will lead modern software delivery practices, design digital pipelines, and oversee deployment quality, security, and operational performance.

Collaborating with executives, product, and engineering teams, you will drive innovation, enable rapid delivery of business-critical solutions, and mentor other DevOps engineers in a fast-paced, remote-friendly environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree with 10+ years of experience
• Master’s Degree with 8+ years experience
• 5 years overall professional software development experience
• 3 years of scripting language development experience (BASH)
• Familiar with MV frameworks
• Advanced Linux admin and programming skills
• 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 CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins)
• In-depth knowledge of cloud and virtualization technologies like AWS
• Familiar with CI/CD concepts
• Powershell or Dotnet pipelines not required

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and implementation of modern software delivery pipelines
• Drive automation across development, testing, and deployment to scale
• Collaborate with exec, product, and engineering teams to align initiatives
• Mentor DevOps engineers and improve deployment practices
• Ensure platform reliability, security, and performance in production environments
• Adopt emerging technologies to optimize infrastructure lifecycle management
• Contribute to agile ceremonies and solution reviews
• Provide demonstrations of solutions to stakeholders
• Support cloud migration and containerization efforts
• Partner with QA and SRE teams to improve operational resilience
• Participate in security reviews and compliance activities

Skills

DevOps

CI/CD

Cloud platforms

Linux

Automation

Security

Collaboration

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

Tools

AWS

Azure

Google Cloud

Jenkins

Kubernetes

GitHub Copilot

Confluence

Jira

Job description

Lumen is the trusted network for the AI-powered world, connecting people, data, and applications through our expansive fiber network and connected ecosystem. We enable secure, high-performance connectivity across cloud, edge, and AI workloads for enterprises, governments, and communities.

At Lumen, you’ll work on infrastructure customers rely on today and build for what’s next, where performance, security, and resilience matter.

This is a high accountability environment where bold ideas drive real innovation for our customers, partners, and industry. The work is challenging, expectations are clear, and trust is built into how we operate. If you’re ready to take ownership, deliver meaningful impact, and help shape the future of AI-ready connectivity, join us today.

The Role

This is a high-accountability environment where bold ideas are transformed into innovative solutions for customers, partners, and the industry. Trust is built through ownership, innovation is driven by collaboration, and every contribution plays a role in advancing the future of AI-ready connectivity.

The Senior Lead DevOps Engineer will play a critical role in bringing strategic vision to life by building the platforms, processes, and automation capabilities that enable innovation to scale efficiently and reliably. This individual will lead the advancement of modern software delivery practices, designing and implementing digital pipelines that accelerate the path from development to deployment while maintaining high standards for quality, security, and operational performance. In this role, the Senior Lead DevOps Engineer will help shape and leverage emerging technologies to automate software deployment, optimize infrastructure lifecycle management, and deliver scalable solutions that support business growth. Collaborating across executive leadership, product management, engineering, and quality organizations, this individual will connect people, processes, and technology to address complex challenges and drive meaningful outcomes.

In this position the Senior Lead DevOps Engineer will be able to establish scalable DevOps capabilities, enhance platform reliability, and enable faster delivery of business-critical solutions. The Senior Lead DevOps Engineer will serve as a technical leader and trusted partner, helping teams adopt best practices, improve operational resilience, and support the organization’s long-term digital transformation objectives.

Location

This is a work from home position within the US.

The Main 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.

What We Look For in a Candidate

• 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 valuate but not required

Compensation

This information reflects the anticipated base salary range for this position based on current national data. Minimums and maximums may vary based on location. Individual pay is based on skills, experience and other relevant factors.

Location Based Pay Ranges

$132,232 - $176,310 in these states: AL AR AZ FL GA IA ID IN KS KY LA ME MO MS MT ND NE NM OH OK PA SC SD TN UT VT WI WV WY

$138,844 - $185,124 in these states: CO HI MI MN NC NH NV OR RI

$145,456 - $193,940 in these states: AK CA CT DC DE IL MA MD NJ NY TX VA WA

Lumen offers a comprehensive package featuring a broad range of Health, Life, Voluntary Lifestyle benefits and other perks that enhance your physical, mental, emotional and financial wellbeing. We're able to answer any additional questions you may have about our bonus structure (short-term incentives, long-term incentives and/or sales compensation) as you move through the selection process.

Learn more about Lumen's:

• Benefits (https://jobs.lumen.com/global/en/benefits-statement)
• Bonus Structure

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Life at Lumen

Life at Lumen is human and connected, even in a fast moving, AI-focused organization. We set clear expectations and trust people to meet them. With real support and shared accountability, teams collaborate better, move faster, and deliver meaningful outcomes.

Our Lumen 8 behaviors guide how we interact, make decisions, and work together, shaping a culture built to perform and win.

To learn more about Life at Lumen and how we live the Lumen 8, please visit:

https://jobs.lumen.com/global/en/life-at-lumen

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Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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