Lead Site Reliability Engineer
Lumen Technologies1 day ago
Remote, United StatesStaff+
Base Salary
$106k - $155k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate AKS clusters with enterprise guardrails, autoscaling, upgrade strategies, and security controls.
- Implement GitOps using Flux CD and establish Helm chart standards and lifecycle management with Helm 3.
- Define Docker image standards, multi-stage builds, SBOM processes, vulnerability scanning, and base image governance.
- Configure Nginx and Kong for ingress, API routing, rate limiting, mutual TLS, JWT/OAuth2 authentication, and WAF integration.
- Deploy Prometheus and Grafana for metrics, alerting, dashboards, and SLO/SLA visualization.
- Lead Jenkins and GitHub Actions automation for build, test, deploy, reusable templates, and environment promotion.
- Build Terraform or Bicep infrastructure-as-code and policy-as-code pipelines with validation, PR gates, and compliance checks.
- Secure and automate Azure Key Vault, cert-manager, ACME, and PFX-based secret, key, and certificate management.
- Design Azure networking using VNets, NSGs, route tables, Private Link, firewall rules, egress controls, and hub-spoke traffic segregation.
- Operate and integrate Azure Blob Storage, Azure Redis Cache, PostgreSQL, Azure Cosmos DB with Mongo API, and Azure Service Bus.
- Own platform engineering standards and lead transformational changes that improve reliability, security, compliance, and customer experience.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in DevOps, platform engineering, or SRE roles.
- 2+ years leading teams or cross-functional initiatives.
- Deep expertise with Azure Public and Azure Government cloud services and resource management.
- Hands-on experience with AKS, Helm 3, Flux CD, Docker, Prometheus, Grafana, Nginx, and Kong.
- Experience automating CI/CD with Jenkins and GitHub Actions.
- Strong automation and debugging development skills in Python, Go, or TypeScript, plus Bash or PowerShell.
- Proven experience with Terraform or similar infrastructure-as-code tools, policy-as-code, and secure SDLC integrations.
- Ability and willingness to obtain GSA Tier 2 Suitability Clearance.
- Preferred experience with Azure Government, FedRAMP controls, and Authority to Operate support.
- Preferred certifications include AZ-104, AZ-305, AZ-400, CKA/CKAD, and Terraform Associate.
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 sales compensation, is available during the selection process.
- The role requires completion of the GSA Tier 2 Suitability Clearance process after onboarding and may include background screening.
Tech Stack
AzureBashDockerGitHub ActionsGoGrafanaHelmJenkinsKubernetesPostgreSQLPowerShellPrometheusPythonTerraformTypeScript
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.