Senior AWS Cloud Architect 60-100%

For our client, we are looking for an experienced Senior AWS Cloud Architect to support enterprise cloud initiatives. You will design and shape scalable, secure, and resilient AWS architectures, define best practices, and provide technical guidance across teams.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

Design, implement, and review enterprise-grade AWS cloud architectures

Define architecture standards, best practices, and cloud platform guidelines

Ensure solutions meet requirements for scalability, high availability, security, and disaster recovery

Lead architecture discussions and technical reviews with business, security, development, and operations teams

Advise engineering teams on cloud-native approaches and implementation decisions

Requirements: Requirements:

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or Information Technology

Extensive hands-on experience in cloud, platform, or infrastructure architecture

Proven experience delivering end-to-end AWS projects in complex enterprise environments

Strong knowledge of AWS services including EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, ECS/EKS, IAM, CloudWatch, and VPC

Experience with cloud architecture patterns, security by design, IAM, networking, and governance

Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or CloudFormation) and CI/CD environments

Knowledge of containers, microservices, serverless, and event-driven architectures

Strong communication skills and ability to influence technical decisions at enterprise level

Industry experience in Life Sciences, Pharmaceuticals, Chemicals, or CDMO environments is highly desirable and will be considered a strong advantage

General Conditions:

Start Date: Available to start immediately

Workload: 60% - 100%

Working Model: Remote

Duration: 2-3 months

Fluent in English is a Must, German would be an advantage

Ideal candidate based in: Switzerland, willing to travel within Switzerland