Remote Senior Cloud Networking & Automation Lead

Lumen Technologies; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Lumen Technologies in the United Kingdom is seeking a highly skilled Solutions Architect to serve as the trusted technical advisor and hands-on deployment lead for Alkira’s enterprise customers. You will own the technical customer journey from initial evaluation through production deployment, adoption, and expansion, collaborating with network, cloud, and platform teams to deliver outcomes.

You will work closely with customer stakeholders and internal Product and Engineering teams to provide

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in a customer-facing technical role.
• Strong networking fundamentals with expertise in routing technologies, network connectivity, and network security.
• Hands-on experience architecting and deploying cloud solutions across AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform, and/or Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
• Experience designing and implementing hybrid cloud and public cloud infrastructure solutions.
• Working knowledge of automation and infrastructure-as-code technologies, including Terraform, Ansible, Python, and REST APIs.
• Ability to troubleshoot and resolve complex technical issues across networking and cloud environments.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to engage both technical and business stakeholders.
• Ability and willingness to travel as business needs require.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary technical owner for strategic customer engagements from evaluation through production deployment and ongoing adoption.
• Lead architecture discussions with customers and partners, providing guidance on networking, cloud connectivity, security, and infrastructure modernization.
• Design, build, and deploy Alkira-based solutions in customer environments using established best practices.
• Develop automation, integrations, and deployment tooling using Terraform, APIs, scripting, and infrastructure-as-code methodologies.
• Partner directly with customer networking, cloud, and platform engineering teams to accelerate successful implementations.
• Deliver technical workshops, architecture reviews, whiteboard sessions, and enablement programs for customers and partners.
• Troubleshoot complex technical challenges and collaborate with Engineering teams to drive issue resolution and customer success.
• Collaborate with Product Management to provide customer feedback, influence roadmap priorities, and drive key feature requests through implementation.

Skills

Networking fundamentals

Cloud connectivity

Customer-facing experience

Communication skills

Problem solving

Travel willingness

Education

BA/BS/MS in a technical field

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Python

REST APIs

Job description

Lumen Technologies in the United Kingdom is seeking a highly skilled Solutions Architect to serve as the trusted technical advisor and hands-on deployment lead for Alkira’s enterprise customers. You will own the technical customer journey from initial evaluation through production deployment, adoption, and expansion, collaborating with network, cloud, and platform teams to deliver outcomes.

You will work closely with customer stakeholders and internal Product and Engineering teams to provide