Principal Engineer - Database Platform Engineering & SRE
Lumen Technologies20 days ago
Remote, United StatesStaff+
Base Salary
$152k - $223k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead the transformation of database administration teams toward Platform Engineering and SRE practices.
- Drive automation-first operating models, operational standards, process optimization, and continuous improvement.
- Identify and eliminate repetitive database operations work by analyzing ServiceNow incidents, requests, and recurring activity.
- Lead database platform standardization, brownfield modernization, simplification, resiliency, and cloud-readiness initiatives.
- Establish automation frameworks, governance, reusable engineering patterns, and self-service capabilities.
- Automate provisioning, patching, upgrades, compliance remediation, and other operational workflows.
- Establish monitoring, observability, performance management, capacity management, and reliability practices.
- Develop scalable database lifecycle management approaches covering patching, upgrades, platform currency, and technical debt reduction.
- Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and guidance across engineering and operational teams.
- Partner with Operations, Security, Cloud, and Architecture teams on transformation initiatives.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent experience.
- 12+ years of experience in database engineering, platform engineering, infrastructure engineering, SRE, cloud engineering, or related technical disciplines.
- Experience leading large-scale engineering, automation, operational excellence, or transformation initiatives in complex enterprise environments.
- Experience driving standardization, process optimization, reliability improvements, and operational efficiency across large-scale technology platforms.
- Strong experience with Infrastructure-as-Code, automation, CI/CD, and modern engineering practices.
- Demonstrated success leading cross-functional technical initiatives and influencing engineering teams.
- Strong leadership, communication, problem-solving, and stakeholder management skills.
- Preferred experience transforming traditional DBA or operations organizations into Platform Engineering, DevOps, or SRE operating models.
- Preferred experience with Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Cassandra, or similar enterprise database technologies.
- Preferred hands-on experience with Terraform, Ansible, AWX, scripting, enterprise automation platforms, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Preferred experience analyzing ServiceNow incident, request, and change data to identify service improvement and automation opportunities.
- Preferred experience implementing observability, proactive monitoring, reliability engineering, performance optimization, and operational health practices.
- Preferred experience leading database lifecycle management, vulnerability remediation, brownfield optimization, cloud migration, datacenter exit, or infrastructure transformation initiatives.
- Familiarity with AWS, Azure, GCP, hybrid cloud, and multi-cloud environments is preferred.
- Preferred experience leveraging AI and intelligent automation to improve operational efficiency and service delivery.
Benefits
- Fully remote position within the United States.
- Comprehensive health, life, voluntary lifestyle, and other wellbeing benefits.
- Additional bonus structure information, including short-term incentives, long-term incentives, and/or sales compensation, is available during the selection process.
Tech Stack
AnsibleApache CassandraAWSAzureGoogle Cloud PlatformMicrosoft SQL ServerMongoDBMySQLPostgreSQLTerraform
Categories
DevOpsSite Reliability
About Lumen Technologies
Lumen Technologies provides fiber-based network connectivity, internet, edge cloud, and managed security/IT services to enterprises, carriers, and government agencies. It operates an extensive global metro and long-haul fiber network and offers SD-WAN, wavelength, CDN, voice, and cloud on-ramps sold through contracted subscriptions. Headquartered in Monroe, Louisiana, Lumen is a public company on the NYSE (LUMN) and rebranded from CenturyLink in 2020.