Senior Cloud Architect (AWS)

Job Title: Senior Cloud Architect (AWS)

Client: Agency of the United Nations

Location: Onsite (Geneva) or Remote (offshore), full-time 100% with a reasonable overlap with Geneva business hours. Onsite missions in Geneva may be part of the engagement.

Type of Engagement: Freelance contractor – 6 months (1 January – 30 June 2027), extendable

Rate: Max 250 CHF per day all inclusive (offshore); max 900 CHF per day for onsite missions in Geneva

Start: 1 January 2027

For an Agency of the United Nations, we are looking for a Senior Cloud Architect (AWS) for the Business Applications Division, to architect, implement (Infrastructure as Code), secure, operate and continuously improve the AWS infrastructure of the business applications. We are seeking a well-rounded profile with exposure to DevOps, SRE, software development and an efficient use of AI.

Main Responsibilities:

· Architect the AWS infrastructure of the business applications

· Implement the infrastructure as code (AWS CloudFormation)

· Secure, operate and continuously improve the AWS infrastructure

· Design, deploy and operate production workloads, including multi-account environments

· Apply observability, SLO, incident management, resilience, backup/restore and disaster recovery practices

Hard Skills:

· Minimum 10 years of IT experience, including at least 5 years architecting and operating solutions on AWS

· AWS core services: IAM, VPC, EC2, S3, CloudFront, Route 53, Lambda, API Gateway, ECS/Fargate, RDS/Aurora, DynamoDB, CloudWatch, KMS, Secrets Manager

· Infrastructure as Code with AWS CloudFormation

· Docker, Git and CI/CD pipelines; Linux and scripting

· Observability: Amazon CloudWatch (metrics, logs, alarms, dashboards)

· Scripting / programming in at least one of: Python, TypeScript/NodeJS, Java

· Cloud security, networking, monitoring and cost optimisation best practices

· Efficient daily use of AI-assisted tools (e.g. GitHub Copilot, code assistants, AI agents)

Nice to have: AWS CDK, Terraform; Step Functions, EventBridge, SQS/SNS; AWS X-Ray / OpenTelemetry, Prometheus / Grafana; AWS Resilience Hub, AWS Fault Injection Service; SonarQube / SAST / SCA tools; Bamboo, Bitbucket, Jira, Confluence; PostgreSQL/Aurora, DynamoDB, OpenSearch/Elasticsearch; cloud infrastructure of web applications built with Java, Angular and NodeJS; AWS certifications (Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer, SysOps Administrator or equivalent).

Soft skills:

· Excellent communication skills in spoken and written English

· High attention to detail

· Teamwork

The ideal candidate is a hands-on AWS cloud architect with a software development background, experience with Agile practices (SCRUM) and, ideally, with international organisations or the public sector.

What do we expect from you?

We expect enthusiasm and creative solutions. Active contribution to nurture the Community with research, scouting and concept of new solutions will be required.

OUR Client

A Geneva-based Agency of the United Nations.

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