Lead IT Infrastructure Engineer

at Lumen in Boise, Idaho, United States

About Lumen

Lumen connects the world. 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. People power progress.

Were looking for top-tier talent and offer the flexibility you need to thrive and deliver lasting impact. Join us as we digitally connect the world and shape the future.

The Role

The role of this position is to serve as a Linux and virtual infrastructure system administrator, for both on-premise and cloud based infrastructure. Primary functions are to design, deploy, and support infrastructure solutions for the enterprise. They will be expected to stay abreast of advances in technologies; assessing, making recommendations, and deploying said technologies. They are expected to be a leader in collaboration efforts across organizations (architecture, development, operational teams, business units, etc.) in solving critical business and technology issues while improving customer experience.

Location and Schedule

This is a Work From Home position available from any US-based location. The schedule currently rotates every 7 weeks.

US Citizenship or Permanent Residency/Green Card is required for consideration.

The Main Responsibilities

+ Provide day-to-day support/administration of OS (Linux/Unix) and associated infrastructure

+ Will provide support directly to internal stakeholders throughout the enterprise to enable and support highly available application solutions

+ Perform site reliability engineering functions

+ Assessing standards, practices, technologies, and ecosystems

+ Make recommendations for improvements and in support of going forward strategies

+ Facilitate implementation tasks (Examples: operational standards, automation, developing/implementing code, etc.)

+ Develop, document, deploy, and support best practices/procedures, risk assessments, contingency planning, security, and disaster recovery & business continuity planning

+ Provide technical support to internal stakeholders through the ability to analyze, troubleshoot, and solve complex technical problems across multiple technical disciplines

+ Interact and communicate with various levels of management on projects and initiatives

+ Provide leadership in the migration of legacy technologies to current standards

What We Look For in a Candidate

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