Principal Network SRE

As a Principal SRE in the organization, lead and drive the team's daily activity, their interactions with partner teams, and empower them by facilitating their working environment. As a leader in the organization, mentor, guide, and coach others in career development and progression. Manage and operate Lumen's Network as a Service (NaaS) implementation in partnership with traditional operations teams and development counterparts. Provide technical direction and resolution of systemic issues related to Lumen's Network as a Service (NaaS) implementation across a broad range of network topologies and applications. Plan, design, and implement scalable local and wide-area network solutions between multiple platforms and protocols. Responsible for system performance, supporting/troubleshooting issues, and coordinating across multiple organizations and teams. Develop tools and utilities to automate deployment, administration, investigation, and monitoring. Curation and consistent implementation of a production readiness program that development/feature teams can align to.

This role requires a strong understanding of Lumen's Layer 1, Layer 2, & Layer 3 networks and products, a strong understanding of Lumen's Edge Compute implementation, and a strong understanding of software development methodologies. This role will work across the network architecture, engineering, and systems development organizations and teams to ensure alignment to production readiness and operationalization guidance and best practices.

This role is designated as a fully remote position within the United States.

• Lead team's daily activities, partner collaboration, production readiness program
• Curation and implementation of a production readiness program to create consistent and repeatable processes for onboarding and managing systems components.
• Mentor/guide/coach others in their technical skillsets and career development
• Subject Matter Expert for network automation platform applications, services, and hosting environments. Focused on core components, supports directly with expertise and escalates to responsible team but remains engaged and learns
• Collaborative development and driving of new tools, utilities, and capabilities to improve support processes and efficiency. These may include solutions for observability, alerting, production code change management, and more
• Ensures applications/services are always running effectively, including continuous monitoring and alerting, empowering operations and development to help manage the services efficiently
• Lean in on automation of deployment pipelines (CI/CD), infrastructure provisioning, and scaling to ensure seamless performance of new deployments
• Proactive incident management - investigation and resolution of service outages and unplanned downtime; proactive minimization and prevention of incident recurrence.
• Participates/leads blameless retrospectives after incidents to analyze what went wrong, implement fixes, learn from the experience, and prevent future incidents through knowledge and tooling
• Documentation for KB/KT/FAQ about the environments. Self-served knowledge on tap so we can "run it together".
• Documentation of standardized operational workflows to ensure adherence to requirements and dissemination best practices for production readiness and operationalization
• Coach and mentor others in the business processes implemented in the team's applications, services, and workflows to provide resolution to support problems
• Effectively manage and deliver multiple initiatives in parallel while maintaining ownership of keys areas of responsibility across the organization
• Indirectly influence the work of others to drive production readiness and operationalization of system and service components
• Effectively estimate the time it will take to perform tasks and deliver or influence the work to be completed within those timeframes

Required Qualification:

• Bachelor's or master's degree or equivalent experience
• 12+ years of related experience in software development, systems engineering, and/or networking
• 3-5 years previously demonstrated leadership experience required
• Network skills are REQUIRED, previous network architecture/engineering/operations preferred
  • Strong understanding of network technologies including Internet, Ethernet, IPVPN, Edge Compute, and Optical transport
  • Strong Layer 2 knowledge of ethernet switching equipment and switching architectures used on Lumen's Internet networks
  • Working level experience with protocols and standards used on Lumen's networks such as BGP, IS-IS, MPLS, BFD, LLDP, RPKI, BMP
• Strong understanding of Ansible, Python, and/or other common technologies used in network automation
• Working Knowledge of:
  • Asynchronous programming concepts and distributed systems design
  • Source code repositories and continuous integration and delivery practices
  • Zero downtime deployment strategies
  • High Availability and Multi-Region architectures
  • OpenAPI, Swagger, and other API standards
  • Distributed Systems Management

Preferred Qualification:

• Strong listening and communication skills
• Strong coaching and mentorship capabilities

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

$149,084 - $198,779 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
$156,539 - $208,718 in these states: CO HI MI MN NC NH NV OR RI
$163,993 - $218,657 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.