Senior Director Cloud Engineering

Responsible for helping to translate business needs into consumable system requirements for software, network and compute engineering teams. The successful candidate has experience with agile product delivery, scaling platforms, managing multiple projects and a record of delivery under pressure. The role requires an ability to adapt to evolving technologies, changing project priorities, and guiding the team through the journey in close partnership with our business stakeholders and engineering teams. This is a technical leadership role that requires expert understanding and implementation of cloud and networking concepts in both Public and Private Clouds. It requires demonstrated experience in defining, building, and executing on cloud service (or Infrastructure as a Service) architectures in multi-tenant environments.

• Manage a team to decompose Product requirements into Features and User Stories which define acceptance criteria.
• Work alongside the team to ensure consistency and completeness.
• Collaborate with Software, Network and Compute Engineering resources to define priorities, adapt to changing priorities and team capacity.
• Provide Agile Coaching.
• Team Building: Integrating a diverse and geographically dispersed staff into a single cohesive team.
• Professional Development of employees by focusing on individual needs, training requirements, and skill level.
• Drive accountability by helping team define deliverable timelines and measuring progress.
• Implement strategies that will increase efficiency, reduce cost 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.

• 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 Agile Methodologies, understanding of the Agile Product Owner, Product Manager and Solution Engineer roles.
• Experience in the System Engineer or equivalent Agile role highly preferred.
• Experience in implementing cloud services technology, including Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS); including Bare Metal, Virtual Machines, Container/Kubernetes.
• Experience in cloud networking and implementing architectures that support complex networking requirements to support cloud services architectures.
• Experience in building systems through API communication to facilitate end-to-end service workflows, in highly scalable fashion.
• Excellent communications skills to include: verbal, written and presentation

This information reflects the anticipated base salary range for this position based on current national data. Minimums and maximums may vary based on location. Individual pay is based on skills, experience and other relevant factors.

Location Based Pay Ranges:

$171,447 - $228,596 in these states: AL, AR, AZ, FL, GA, IA, ID, IN, KS, KY, LA, ME, MO, MS, MT, ND, NE, NM, OH, OK, PA, SC, SD, TN, UT, VT, WI, WV, and WY.
$180,020 - $240,026 in these states: CO, HI, MI, MN, NC, NH, NV, OR, and RI.
$188,592 - $251,456 in these states: AK, CA, CT, DC, DE, IL, MA, MD, NJ, NY, TX, VA, and WA.

Lumen offers a comprehensive package featuring a broad range of Health, Life, Voluntary Lifestyle benefits and other perks that enhance your physical, mental, emotional and financial wellbeing. We're able to answer any additional questions you may have about our bonus structure (short-term incentives, long-term incentives and/or sales compensation) as you move through the selection process.

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