AI‑First Cloud Architect – AWS/NaaS Leader

Lumen; Montgomery (AL); On-site; USD 132,000 - 176,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Life insurance

Remote work

Job summary

Lumen is the trusted network for the AI‑powered world, connecting people, data, and applications through our expansive fiber network and connected ecosystem. We enable secure, high‑performance connectivity across cloud, edge, and AI workloads for enterprises, governments, and communities.

This remote role designs and governs cloud architecture for Lumen’s NaaS platform and related services, with AWS as the primary target and multi‑cloud perspectives (GCP, Azure).

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or related field with 10+ years of relevantexperience or
• Master’s degree with 8+ years of relevant experience
• AI-first practitioner – actively integrates AI tools as a routine part of architecture and engineering work
• Demonstrated AWS expertise with production systems on AWS at scale

Responsibilities

• Define cloud architecture standards and reference patterns for NaaS platform services across AWS(primary), GCP, and Azure
• Own cloud-native design decisions: compute, networking, storage, containerization, serverless, and service mesh patterns
• Design and govern IaC standards – reusable, modular, auditable infrastructure code
• Architect Kubernetes/EKS environments for NaaS workloads; cluster design and production readiness
• Define cloud networking architecture: VPCs, transit gateways, peering, interconnects, CDN, load balancing
• Ensure cloud security posture: IAM policies, encryption standards, network segmentation
• Define observability architecture for cloud workloads: metrics, logging, tracing, alerting
• Lead cloud cost governance: rightsizing, reserved capacity, spend modeling, FinOps

Skills

AWS

GCP

Azure

Kubernetes

Terraform

Pulumi

CDK

Security

FinOps

OpenTelemetry

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Master’s degree (preferred)

Tools

CloudFormation

GitHub Actions

Job description

Lumen is the trusted network for the AI‑powered world, connecting people, data, and applications through our expansive fiber network and connected ecosystem. We enable secure, high‑performance connectivity across cloud, edge, and AI workloads for enterprises, governments, and communities.

This remote role designs and governs cloud architecture for Lumen’s NaaS platform and related services, with AWS as the primary target and multi‑cloud perspectives (GCP, Azure).