Senior Lead Engineer - Public Sector

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 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.

** The Main Responsibilities*
* -Recommends optimized solutions to support current and long-range planning and collaborates 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.

-Designs requirements based technical solutions in support of new projects and assists 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.

-Evaluates and recommends future technologies and methodologies that will enhance future capabilities.

-Designs, builds, and maintains 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.

-The candidate will have demonstrated knowledge and experience in system architecture and engineering disciplines. Specific technical knowledge of enterprise level networking, network security, and architectural security.

-Analyzes, develops, recommends, implements, and supports innovative, cost effective IPS/IDS protection systems.

-Familiar with Unix Scripting language like Ruby, Perl or advanced KSH scripting.

-Maintain products like VMware vSphere ESXi, Virtual Center, Elasticsearch, Postgres, Google Cloud Platform, and Amazon Web Services.

-Supports due diligence activities including site surveys, design, 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.

-Quickly develop new applications as the need arises.  These applications should…