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hackajob is collaborating with Lumen Technologies to connect them with exceptional tech professionals for this role. Job Title: LEAD SOFTWARE DEVELOPER 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. We're invested in providing the flexibility you need to thrive and deliver lasting impact. Apply now to continue digitally connecting the world and shaping the future. The Role Do you love coding and like the idea of working on projects that help protect businesses from cyber threats? Lumen's Black Lotus Labs development team is looking for a new member to assist in automating responses to network-based threats. This team is on the forefront of leveraging bleeding edge software stacks to mitigate evolving threats. Our ideal candidate is the person that enjoys writing code and loves automating build and deploy stages of software deployment. The mission of this team is to develop threat blocking capabilities that improve customer security posture by enabling proactive security policies on Lumen's security solutions protecting our customers from cybersecurity threats over the Internet. Location This is a remote position open to candidates based anywhere in the US The Main Responsibilities As a Lead software developer, you would closely collaborate with other developers on the team to build proactive threat blocking capabilities which will integrate with Lumen's network services. Lead developers on our team leverage their experience to collaboratively help design and engineer solutions and implement in an iterative manner. We leverage modern frameworks and systems to implement our solutions. As a lead developer, the types of tools and systems you would work with on this team are : Python and other programming languages such as C, Go, etc. REST and RESTful API interfaces Docker, Kubernetes, or other container and virtualization services Jenkins/Gitlab CI/CD/ or other automated build and deployment systems Network and security elements such as routers, firewalls, DDoS mitigation appliances, and intrusion detection systems Operating system kernels and network drivers What We Look For in a Candidate Ideally, we're looking for someone that has a strong background in software engineering that exhibits: Extensive experience and prior work in more than one programming languages: Python, Go, Java, C, etc. Experience in at least two out of the three programming paradigms: imperative, object oriented, functional Experience in DevOps, unit testing, and continuous integration A strong desire to learn and play with new technologies and techniques Excellent communication and leadership skills Experience with iterative development methodologies and practices The following are not required, but are things that we look for to raise resumes up to the top of our stack: Experience with developing solutions that leverage kernel and network driver level functionality Experience with DevOps tools Broad information of security knowledge Experience with system, network, or security administration in a Unix-based environment Knowledge of Internet networking protocols, topologies, and security impacts Strong communication and leadership skills and prior work in a collaborative software development environmentaa415a4b-8b21-40fc-a65c-70d2b25ca29a