Hiring: Cloud Architect Company: Lumen Technologies Location: United States Job Posted Time: 2026-09-15 13:33:55 Employment Type: Remote Target Skills & Keywords : AWS, Azure, BGP, CDK, CDN, CI/CD, CloudWatch, Datadog, EKS, Encryption, Event-Driven, FedRAMP, GCP, Helm, IAM, IaC, Infrastructure as Code, Istio, Kafka, Kubernetes, LLM, Load Balancing, MLOps, Microservices, OpenTelemetry, Pulumi, SQS, SageMaker, Serverless, Service Mesh, Terraform, Vertex AI About the job Experience: •10+ years of relevant experience or Master's degree with 8+ years of relevant experience Required Skills: •This role bridges cloud engineering disciplines with architectural leadership - defining standards, guiding platform decisions, evaluating cloud-native approaches, and ensuring that what gets built in the cloud is resilient, secure, observable, and cost-efficient. •This is a remote opportunity open to candidates located anywhere in the U.S. •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 (Terraform, Pulumi, or CDK) standards - reusable, modular, auditable infrastructure code •Architect Kubernetes/EKS environments for NaaS workloads: cluster design, operational efficiency, production readiness •Define cloud networking architecture: VPCs, transit gateways, peering, interconnects, CDN, load balancing •Ensure cloud security posture: IAM policies, encryption standards, network segmentation, FedRAMP alignment where applicable Qualifications: •AI/ML platform experience: SageMaker, Bedrock, Vertex AI - infrastructure design for ML workloads •MLOps pipeline design in cloud-native environments •CI/CD pipeline design and DevSecOps integration •FinOps certifications or demonstrated cost governance experience Compensation: •$132,232 - $176,310 / year Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!