Lumen is the trusted network for AI. We’re transforming how businesses connect, secure, and scale in an AI-driven world. By connecting people, data, and applications quickly, securely, and effortlessly, we help organizations move faster and unlock what’s next. At Lumen, people power progress. Our culture is built on teamwork, trust, and transparency, giving you the flexibility, support, and opportunity to make a lasting impact. We’re looking for top-tier talent ready to take on the challenge. Join us in building the future. The Role We are looking for a Senior Lead DevOps Engineer for our DevSecOps team. The Senior Lead DevOps Engineer understands the software development lifecycle (from coding to support) and has the understanding of various automation tools for developing digital pipelines. This role will shape how Lumen combines the latest technologies and services to automate all aspects of software deployment and instance lifecycle management. The ideal candidate is passionate about software automation and understands that quality is always a priority. This role will collaborate with key stakeholders across the organization including, but not limited to, executive leadership, product owners, developers, and testers to plan, develop, and implement solutions to optimize and automate business and technical processes. This role will have responsibility for translating product vision and turning requirements into reality. Location This is a remote opportunity open to candidates located anywhere in the U.S. The Main Responsibilities - Work under agile principles in a CI/CD environment. - Participate in meetings and conferences to gather requirements and discuss architectural decisions. - Supportive and collaborative management ability in a team environment, as well as proven customer-facing management skills - Participate in internal meetings to review solutions, all dependencies, actions and timelines. - Apply a thorough understanding of deploying and managing application lifecycles to interpret customer business needs and processes. - Making data driven decisions to improve resilience, and service quality. - Develop reusable software components and tools for DevOps. - Collaborate with other developers, testers, and system engineers to ensure quality product enhancements. - Knowledge on how to troubleshoot and resolve technical issues in a test and product environments - Ability to identify, assess and integrate various open source technologies and cloud services - Analyze current technology utilized within the company and develop steps and processes to improve and expand upon them - Work with the development team to improve the system architecture. - Mentor and train other DevOps engineers and seek to continually improve processes What We Look For in a Candidate - 10+ years overall professional software development and operations experience. - Proficiency in scripting language development experience (BASH). - Proven experience in CI/CD, such as Jira and Confluence. - Experience deploying and managing production systems on a cloud infrastructure, such as AWS, MS Azure or Google Cloud. - Experience with engineering practices (test driven development, continuous integration, Jenkins, GitHub actions) Compensation This information reflects the anticipated base salary range for this position based on current national data. Minimums and maximums may vary based on location. Individual pay is based on skills, experience and other relevant factors. Location Based Pay Ranges $132,232 - $176,310 in these states: AL AR AZ FL GA IA ID IN KS KY LA ME MO MS MT ND NE NM OH OK PA SC SD TN UT VT WI WV WY $138,844 - $185,124 in these states: CO HI MI MN NC NH NV OR RI $145,456 - $193,940 in these states: AK CA CT DC DE IL MA MD NJ NY TX VA WA 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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• Contribute to building and maintaining reliable, scalable, and secure cloud platforms and tools. • Apply site reliability engineering principles to improve system stability and performance. • Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code • Troubleshoot and debug issues in distributed cloud-native systems. • Collaborate with engineering teams to support service reliability and operational excellence. • Create and maintain documentation to support engineers and improve self-service capabilities. • Participate in on-call rotations and incident response, learning best practices along the way. • Continuously develop your skills and contribute to team knowledge sharing.

• Keeping systems and services running smoothly with minimal downtime by focusing on availability, reliability, and scalability. • Developing and maintaining tools and scripts to automate repetitive tasks such as deployments, configuration management, and monitoring. • Implementing and managing monitoring and alerting systems to provide visibility into system performance and quickly detect potential issues. • Responding to, diagnosing, and resolving system incidents, including conducting post-mortems to prevent future occurrences. • Monitoring system resource usage to forecast future needs and scale systems accordingly to handle increasing user load. • Collaborating with stakeholders to identify operational risks and implementing strategies to reduce their likelihood and impact. • Analyzing metrics from operating systems and applications to identify areas for performance improvement. • Provide direction to a team of direct reports and matrixed resources in alignment with Site Reliability objectives. • Manage performance of SRE team members through regular 1:1s, coaching sessions, performance reviews, and performance management when necessary.

Code for America believes government can work for the people, by the people, in the new digital age, and that government at all levels can and should work well for all people. For more than a decade, we’ve worked to show that with the mindful use of technology, we can break down barriers, meet community needs, and find real solutions. Our employees build and transform government and community tools and services, making them so good they inspire change. We merge the best parts of technology, nonprofit, and government to help support the people who need it most. With a focus on transparency and fairness, and deep empathy for partners in government and community organizations and the people that our partners serve, we’re building a movement of motivated change agents driven by meaningful results and lasting impact. At Code for America, you contribute to exciting work while learning and developing in a supportive and flexible environment. Our compensation and benefits are holistic and thoughtfully curated to represent our employees and our mission. Help us drive real generational change that lasts. Code for America is looking for a talented Staff DevOps Engineer who will play a critical role in transforming compliance from a constraint into an operational strength. Through hands-on execution across cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, and monitoring, you ensure that security, availability, and data integrity are built into the platform by default. This work allows civic programs to scale responsibly while maintaining public trust. About the role: We’re seeking an experienced Staff DevOps Engineer to help design, automate, and scale secure, compliant cloud infrastructure supporting containerized and AI-powered applications. The ideal candidate thrives in fast-paced, compliance-driven environments (SOC 2, HIPAA, or similar) and is passionate about Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), CI/CD, and enabling developer velocity through automation and best practices. This role will report to the Director of Product Engineering and is expected to travel no more than 10% of the time. This is a full-time, term-limited position for 1 year. Code for America is based in California and can employ those who reside full-time within the United States. This is a remote position. In this position you will: - Develop and optimize CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions for secure, automated deployments - Implement, maintain, and monitor containerized applications (Docker, Kubernetes, ECS, or EKS) - Collaborate closely with engineering and security teams to ensure compliance with frameworks such as SOC 2, HIPAA, and NIST 800-53 - Automate cloud resource provisioning, scaling, and governance with reusable modules and policy-as-code - Manage and monitor infrastructure for performance, reliability, and cost optimization - Contribute to and enforce secure DevOps best practices (least privilege, secrets management, audit logging, vulnerability scanning) - Support platform integration for AI/ML workloads, container orchestration, and environment isolation - Other duties as assigned About you: The position is a perfect fit ​​if you are someone who likes to document, teach, and design for reuse, with a strong passion for building systems that are reliable, accessible, and worthy of trust. You’re someone who likes to get your hands dirty while also thinking about how today’s solutions become tomorrow’s foundations. - 3–5+ years of hands-on DevOps, SRE, or infrastructure engineering experience - Deep experience with AWS (CloudFormation, IAM, ECS/EKS, Lambda, CloudWatch, S3, VPC, RDS) - Strong communication, documentation, and collaboration skills in matrixed organizations - Familiarity with Azure or Google Cloud Platform (GCP) a plus - Proficient in GitHub Actions, Docker, and Kubernetes It’s a bonus if you have: - Aptible (deployment or compliance automation experience) - AI/ML infrastructure (GPU orchestration, model serving, or AI workflows) - Scripting in Ruby, Python, Bash, or Go for automation and tool development What you’ll get - Salary: Code for America’s salary bands are transparent as a part of our commitment to transparency and fairness. As part of our hiring practices, we aim to target the midpoint of the 2nd quartile of the range for all new hires. Offer targets vary based on market / geographic location. The offer targets for this role range from $128,945 to $157,850, annually. Benefits and Perks: - Values: - Leadership and teammates who share a strong work ethic and values, and who respect and care for one another - A collaborative, cross-functional, hardworking, and joyful environment - Employee Enablement Support: - Laptop provided - A one-time $700 payment for remote environment setup; $200 stipend (in first paycheck) and up to $500 reimbursement, in accordance with our equipment policy - Cell phone and/or internet reimbursement of $50 per month - Professional Development: - $500 annual (per calendar year) stipend towards professional development; prorated at time of hire - Up to $500 of professional development funds can be rolled over each year, up to a maximum of $1000 - Training / guidance for staff required to utilize AI as part of their role, plus opportunities for employees to gain AI-related skills to support job and career growth - Retirement & 401k Plans: - Employees receive a 100% employer match on the first 3% of contributions. - Employees with 3+ years of service receive an additional 50% match on contributions between 3% and 5%, for a maximum employer contribution of 5% - Medical: - At least one no cost health insurance option for full-time employees for employee-only coverage - A minimum of 80% of the cost of dependent coverage - Remote Work: - Code for America employees may work remotely across the US - Code for America employees main residence must be within the US - Full-time employees work 40 hours per week, Monday - Friday - Collaborative working hours: we aim to hold all internal meetings between 10 AM - 3 PM PT. We expect all Code for America staff to be available during these set working hours - Time Off: - Open personal time off (subject to manager approval), a minimum of 14 paid holidays, and an org-wide closure from Christmas Day through New Year's Day - Paid sick time; up to 96 hours annually - 17 weeks of paid parental and family leave - 3 weeks of paid sabbatical after 5 years of service Equal Employment Opportunity: Code for America is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants will not be discriminated against because of race, color, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, religion, national origin, citizenship status, disability, ancestry, marital status, veteran status, medical condition or any protected category prohibited by local, state or federal laws. Code for America Workers United: This position is not covered by a Collective Bargaining Agreement between Code for America and Code for America Workers United, affiliated with OPEIU, Local 1010. 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