Senior Lead DevOps Engineer — Remote AI-Ready Cloud

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 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.