Principal Cloud FinOps Architect - AI-Ready & Multi-Cloud

Lumen; United States; À distance; USD 152 000 - 223 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Health benefits

Life insurance

Remote work flexibility

Voluntary lifestyle benefits

Résumé du poste

Lumen calls for a Principal Architect, Cloud FinOps, to lead cost-aware cloud strategy across a multi-cloud landscape. You will shape architectures, governance, and financial accountability, partnering with Engineering, Finance, and Leadership to deliver measurable business value.

This remote US role requires 12+ years in architecture, 8+ years in public clouds, and 5+ years in FinOps or cloud governance. You’ll mentor teams, develop unit economics, and present ROI roadmaps to executives.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of enterprise architecture, cloud architecture, or technology strategy experience.
• 8+ years of public cloud experience across Azure, AWS, and/or Google Cloud Platform.
• 5+ years of FinOps, cloud economics, cloud governance, or cost optimization experience.
• Proven experience influencing executive stakeholders and enterprise architecture decisions.

Responsabilités

• Define and govern multi-cloud architecture standards across Azure, AWS, and GCP; develop reference architectures and governance frameworks.
• Lead cost optimization, cloud costing methodologies, and unit economics programs across compute, storage, networking, AI/ML, Kubernetes, databases, and SaaS platforms.
• Drive application rationalization, cloud migration, and platform modernization with financial guardrails and policy-as-code.
• Define cloud consumption standards, tagging, allocation, and lifecycle management ensuring security and compliance alignment.
• Partner with engineering to automate cost controls, budget management, and FinOps reporting; promote IaC and FinOps-as-Code.

Connaissances

Executive influence

Cloud architecture

FinOps

Cost optimization

Outils

Terraform

CloudFormation

Bicep

Kubernetes

Flexera

CloudHealth

Apptio Cloudability

Description du poste

Lumen calls for a Principal Architect, Cloud FinOps, to lead cost-aware cloud strategy across a multi-cloud landscape. You will shape architectures, governance, and financial accountability, partnering with Engineering, Finance, and Leadership to deliver measurable business value.

This remote US role requires 12+ years in architecture, 8+ years in public clouds, and 5+ years in FinOps or cloud governance. You’ll mentor teams, develop unit economics, and present ROI roadmaps to executives.