Senior Lead Engineer - Public Sector

About Lumen

Lumen connects the world. We are igniting business growth by connecting people, data and applications – quickly, securely, and effortlessly. Together, we are building a culture and company from the people up – committed to teamwork, trust and transparency. People power progress.

We’re looking for top‑tier talent and offer the flexibility you need to thrive and deliver lasting impact. Join us as we digitally connect the world and shape the future.

This is a highly technical and hands‑on position requiring the selected candidate to both lead and participate in multiple team environments and to provide independent efforts to all aspects of system integration including design, needs analysis, design review, testing, implementation, and validation. The candidate must be a self‑starter and can work independently with little to no supervision. Under this position, it’s expected the member will be able to rapidly identify and resolve problems, engineer, identify, and become proficient in the latest technology applicable to the position, and conduct critical thinking towards challenges and solutions to meet the objectives of the team.

The candidate should be considered the Subject Matter Expert (SME) in multiple technologies, architectures, and solutions utilized by the team.

• Recommend optimized solutions to support current and long‑range planning and collaborate with managers in the selection, recommendation and approvals of tools and technologies to improve efficiencies, reduce costs, and increase customer satisfaction.
• Monitor, analyze, and resolve incidents for infrastructure running in Google Cloud Platform and Amazon Web Services.
• Deploy, configure, and administer systems in Google Cloud Platform and Amazon Web Services.
• Support, troubleshoot, and maintain Kubernetes clusters and containers.
• Design requirements‑based technical solutions in support of new projects and assist with transition of the solution and design into production.
• Evaluate, build, integrate, test and prepare systems for operational use and patches for rapid remediation and deployment.
• Install new/rebuild existing systems and configure hardware, peripherals, settings, directories, storage, etc. in accordance with standards and project/operational requirements.
• Gather and analyze metrics and customer feedback to formulate system requirements.
• Evaluate and recommend future technologies and methodologies that will enhance future capabilities.
• Design, build, and maintain automation solutions (playbooks, roles) for deploying IT infrastructure, software, managing configurations, and orchestrating workflows using Ansible, Python/Bash scripting, and CI/CD tools.
• Develop, maintain, and execute test plans and procedures based upon system security and functional requirements that result in higher levels of fidelity in production implementations.
• Demonstrate knowledge and experience in system architecture and engineering disciplines, including enterprise‑level networking, network security, and architectural security.
• Analyze, develop, recommend, implement, and support innovative, cost‑effective IPS/IDS protection systems.
• Familiar with Unix scripting languages like Ruby, Perl or advanced KSH scripting.
• Maintain products such as VMware vSphere ESXi, Virtual Center, Elasticsearch, Postgres, Google Cloud Platform, and Amazon Web Services.
• Support due diligence activities including site surveys, design, review, bill of materials creation, statement of work creation, vendor negotiation and coordination, proposal generation, and proposal delivery.
• Maintain existing applications by fixing, upgrading, and adding functionality as needed.
• Develop new applications quickly as the need arises, following appropriate best practices.
• Assess existing applications for deficiencies such as slow performance and deprecated dependencies and devise a plan for resolution.
• Keep existing applications current with the programming language version and releases.
• Perform application testing to ensure new features work or that fixes have not caused regressions.
• Mentor teammates by helping them learn new technologies where needed.
• Provide rapid…