Lumen Technologies · 1 day ago
Senior Director of Cloud Engineering
United States
Full-time
Remote
Director/Executive
$189K/yr - $251K/yr
7+ years expLumen Technologies is a company that connects people, data, and applications to ignite business growth. They are seeking a Senior Director of Cloud Engineering to lead innovative engineering solutions and manage multiple teams while adapting to evolving technologies and project priorities.
Big DataInformation ServicesInfrastructureOptical CommunicationSecurityTelecommunicationsVoIPWireless
Responsibilities
Manage a team to decompose Platform and Product requirements into Features and User Stories which define acceptance criteria and work alongside the team to ensure consistency and completeness
Lead both wholly owned teams and matrixed individuals
Collaborate with Software, Network and Compute Engineering resources to define priorities, adapt to changing priorities and team capacity
Provide Lean/Agile Coaching
Team Building: Integrating a diverse and geographically dispersed staff into a single cohesive team
Professional Development of employees focusing on individual needs, training, and skill level
Drive accountability by helping team define deliverable timelines and measuring progress
Implement strategies that will increase efficiency, reduce costs and improve customer experience
Ability to act with a sense of urgency and consistently demonstrate leadership and a high level of engagement with other managers and team members
Ensuring customer focus with user communities, both internal and external
Interaction with leadership within the company to ensure open communication and relationships
Proven leadership background with supervisory experience
Ability to handle situations involving conflict while promoting a positive company image
Act as a servant leader to support and empower their team
Technical leadership including software design patterns, cloud native/ready architectures, software platform concepts and product/network technology concepts, etc
Qualification
Required
BS/BA or equivalent education and experience
7-10 years related experience in cloud and network development
3+ years acting in a lead role
Training in Lean/Agile Methodologies
Excellent communications skills to include verbal, written and presentation
Preferred
Experience in the System Engineer or equivalent Lean/Agile role highly preferred
Experience in implementing cloud native/cloud ready architectures
Experience in cloud networking and implementing architectures that support complex networking requirements to support cloud services architecture
Experience in building systems through API communication to facilitate end-to-end service workflows, in highly scalable fashion, across internal and external API consumers
Experience in building scalable software platforms to be built upon internally and by partners/customers
Experience with Golang, Java, HTML/CSS/JavaScript, Vue.js, Temporal, OpenTelemetry (OTEL), Grafana, Prometheus, Tempo; modern integration technologies such as REST, Kafka, gRPC
Benefits
Health
Life
Voluntary Lifestyle benefits
Company
Lumen Technologies
Lumen delivers the most secure platform for applications and data to help businesses, government and communities deliver amazing experiences
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$2.44B2025-09-04Post Ipo Debt· $425M
2025-08-04Post Ipo Debt· $2B
2023-05-22Post Ipo Equity
Leadership Team
Kate Johnson
CEO & President
Dave Ward
EVP, CTO
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