Sr Lead Information Security Engineer - Remote Eligible

Senior Lead Information Security Engineer

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. We're 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: We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Lead Information Security Engineer specializing in Cloud and Virtualization, to join the Public Sector Security Architecture and Engineering team. In this role, you will be a part of a team that builds security solutions to protect Lumen public sector customers and infrastructure, from advanced security threats. The ideal candidate will be responsible for certifying architecture designs, creating implementation guides, and training security operations teams, to support a new virtualized cloud infrastructure environment. This role requires a deep understanding of cloud security, virtualization technologies, best practices in information security, and CISA controls. Additionally, this role requires recurring collaboration with Product Management, IT, Architecture, Engineering, and Operations teams, to provide subject matter expertise.

Candidate must be a U.S. Citizen and eligible to obtain suitability and/or a US Government personnel security clearance.

Location and Schedule: This is a Work from Home position available from any US-based location.

The Main Responsibilities:

Security Engineering: Researches, evaluates, engineers, develops, troubleshoots, and supports solutions and infrastructure for the company's managed security portfolio.

Technical Documentation and Test Procedures: Defines and executes repeatable test procedures, creation of technical documentation, and delivery of scalable standards.

Solution Design: Responsibility for independent engineering design to include collaboration with the Product Management, Product Development, Architecture, and Operations staff on complex security solutions.

New Capabilities: Provides input regarding multivendor network, compute, virtualization, and security infrastructure capabilities and future possibilities to conceptualize new products and features.

Improve Processes: Assesses security operational processes to identify opportunities to optimize, enhance, and automate.

Security Infrastructure Support: Ensure ongoing scale, management, and monitoring of deployed solutions.

Lifecycle Management: Define process and support all platform lifecycle management.

Vendor Relations: Develops partnerships with key equipment suppliers. Communicates requirements, guidance, and vision to develop, implement, and support security solutions.

What We Look For in a Candidate:

• Experience using industry leading security solutions and technologies, to implement modern virtualized cloud infrastructure deployments.
• Has built lab and production development environments to certify architecture designs.
• Development of low-level design documents, configuration templates, and implementation guides.
• Implementation of production systems and training operations teams.
• Experience with integrated network architectures, data center architectures, and virtualized cloud technologies.
• DevOps tools such as Git, Docker, Jenkins, Gitlab CI/CD; configuration management tools such as Ansible, Salt, Puppet, Chef; and scripting language experience.
• Broad technical knowledge of current and emerging technologies used within the service provider security, data center, network, and cloud infrastructure.
• Demonstrated ability to effectively manage vendor and contract resources.
• Experience working with government programs, employees, and contractors.
• 10+ years of related experience.
• Undergraduate degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• SOC (Security Operations Center) infrastructure engineering and cloud deployment experience.
• Hands-on experience with accreditation and acceptance processes for complex, integrated solutions in a DOD or federal government environment.
• Federal TIC (Trusted Internet Connections) or MTIPS (Managed Trusted Internet Protocol Services) experience.
• Understanding of cloud infrastructure, networking, storage, and platform services and proficiency in cloud-native tools, virtualization and orchestration.
• Relevant cloud certifications, such as AWS certified solutions architect, Azure solutions architect or Google cloud professional architect.
• Professional/technical certifications, such as CISSP, CISM or CISA.
• Experience developing solutions per FISMA, DCID, NIST policy frameworks, FedRAMP, CISA, and GSA compliance requirements - while maintaining balance between functionality, performance, scalability, and reliability.
• Working experience with Managed Security Services platforms and solutions.
• Working experience with data center platforms such as service provider edge/core devices, Ethernet switch platforms, load balancers, etc.
• Experience with software development, and automation of testing, troubleshooting, and provisioning tasks.
• Knowledge of project management practices and experience with Agile development process.

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:

• $129,639 - $172,852 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, and WY.
• $136,121 - $181,494 in these states: CO, HI, MI, MN, NC, NH, NV, OR, and RI.
• $142,603 - $190,137 in these states: AK, CA, CT, DC, DE, IL, MA, MD, NJ, NY, TX, VA, and 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.

Equal Employment Opportunities: We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all persons regardless of race, color, ancestry, citizenship, national origin, religion, veteran status, disability, genetic characteristic or information, age, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, family status, pregnancy, or other legally protected status (collectively, "protected statuses"). We do not tolerate unlawful discrimination in any employment decisions, including recruiting, hiring, compensation, promotion, benefits, discipline, termination, job assignments or training.