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. 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, analysis, design review, testing, implementation, and validation. The candidate should be a self-starter and can work independently with little to no supervision.

Specific technical knowledge of enterprise level networking and network security.

•Recommends optimized solutions to support current and long-range planning and collaborates with project team leads 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 and Amazon Web Services.

•Deploy, configure, and administer systems in Google Cloud and Amazon Web Services.

•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.

•in accordance with standards and project/operational requirements.

•Gather and analyze metrics and customer feedback to formulate system requirements.

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

•Operational knowledge of system products like VMware vSphere ESXi, Virtual Center, Elasticsearch, Postgres, Google Cloud, 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 follow appropriate best practices.

•Assess existing applications for deficiencies such as slow performance and use of deprecated dependencies and come up with a plan for resolving.

•Keep existing applications current with the version of the programming language and releases.

•Perform application testing to ensure that new features work or that fixes have not caused any regressions.

•Mentor teammates by helping them learn new technologies where needed.

•Provide rapid operational support, troubleshooting, and resolution to production equipment.

5+ years current Linux systems engineering experience (Redhat, CentOS, Rocky) and troubleshooting.

•3+ years of Kubernetes experience to include developing helm charts and deploying applications on Kubernetes.

•3+ years with Google Cloud Platform or Amazon Web Services

•Knowledge and experience should include computer network operations, network access and protection techniques and technologies, security, encryption, and cross domain solutions

•Available 24/7 for Network Outages and Maintenance window work.

•Ability to work with coworkers and customers to troubleshoot technical problems

•Ability to travel

Candidate must be a US Citizen with an active Department of Defense TOP SECRET clearance

This information reflects the anticipated base salary range for this position based on current national data. Lumen offers a comprehensive package featuring a broad range of Health, Life, Voluntary Lifestyle benefits and other perks that enhance your physical, mental, emotional and financial wellbeing. We’re able to answer any additional questions you may have about our bonus structure (short-term incentives, long-term incentives and/or sales compensation) as you move through the selection process.

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