(Senior) Cloud Solutions Architect - Microsoft Azure (all genders)

• 22 August 2026 • 100% • Indefinite term • Bern ## With us, AI competence, engineering excellence, and a deep understanding of the sector combine - driven by people who want to move things forward together. This is how sustainable solutions are born that truly make a difference in our customers' daily lives. This succeeds thanks to people who take responsibility, recognize opportunities, and transform technological possibilities into concrete results. To this end, we create an environment characterized by mutual support: a space for professional development, open communities where knowledge is shared with pleasure, peer groups, and training offers adapted to your needs. Trust, recognition, and successes celebrated together characterize our collaboration and make development something that is simply part of our culture. WHAT YOU CAN MOVE ## • Azure Architecture: You develop modern, secure, and scalable Azure architectures and establish the architectural planning for the solution to be implemented. • Cloud Foundation & Landing Zones: You design Azure Landing Zones and create the technical foundation for cloud transformations - including management groups, subscriptions, network, identity, governance, and security. • Azure Migration & Modernization: You accompany our customers in the analysis, planning, and implementation of migrations to Azure and specifically develop existing IT environments. • Hybrid Cloud & Networking: You design hybrid architectures and securely connect existing On-Premises environments with Azure - for example with Azure Virtual Network, ExpressRoute, VPN Gateway, Private Endpoints, and Azure DNS. • Security & Identity: You integrate security from the start into your architecture and work particularly with Microsoft Entra ID, Azure Key Vault, Azure Policy, and Microsoft Defender for Cloud. • Automation & Infrastructure as Code: You automate the setup of cloud infrastructures with technologies like Terraform or Bicep and integrate them into modern CI/CD processes with GitHub or Azure DevOps. • Cloud Native Solutions: You also advise our customers on the use of modern Azure services such as Azure App Service, Azure Functions, Azure Container Apps, or Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). • Integration & APIs: You know the possibilities of Azure API Management, Service Bus, and Event Grid and know how to integrate them judiciously into modern solution architectures. • Operation & Resilience: You take into account monitoring, availability, backup, and disaster recovery from the design of the solution and use, for example, Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Azure Backup, and Azure Site Recovery. • Governance & Costs: You help our customers operate their Azure environment in a controllable and economical manner by taking into account governance and FinOps principles. • Customer Consulting & Workshops: You exchange on an equal footing with IT managers and architects, lead architecture and cloud workshops, and translate requirements into concrete technical solutions. • PreSales & Offers: In collaboration with our sales team and Microsoft, you develop solution approaches for new customer projects and support architecture concepts, effort estimations, offers, as well as presentations. • Microsoft Ecosystem: You work closely with Microsoft and our internal specialists and actively integrate new Azure technologies and best practices into our customer projects. • Teamwork: You pass on your knowledge, support your colleagues, and develop our Microsoft Azure portfolio with us. HOW YOU SUCCEED ## • Azure Experience: You have several years of practical experience with Microsoft Azure as well as in the design and implementation of Azure-based customer solutions. • Infrastructure Knowledge: You understand classic and modern IT infrastructures and particularly know cloud networking, compute, storage, identity, security, and hybrid architectures. • Architectural Competence: You can analyze complex requirements, evaluate technical options, and develop understandable, secure, and scalable solution architectures. • Azure Best Practices: Concepts such as Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework, Azure Landing Zones, and Azure Well-Architected Framework are familiar to you. • Infrastructure as Code: You have practical experience with Terraform and/or Bicep as well as with automation and deployment processes. • Security: Zero Trust, identity and access management, network security, governance, and cloud security are an integral part of your architecture and are not secondary subjects. • Modernization: Ideally, you already have experience with Azure Migrate as well as with architectures based on PaaS, containers, or Kubernetes. • DevOps: GitHub, GitHub Actions, or Azure DevOps as well as CI/CD concepts are familiar to you. • Consulting Competence: You can clearly explain complex technical subjects, are confident at the customer site, and develop solutions with different stakeholders. • Autonomy: You are happy to take on technical responsibilities and wish not only to design solutions but also to actively accompany their implementation. • Certifications: Microsoft Azure certifications such as Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305) are a plus - or you are ready to obtain these certifications with us. • AI Competence: You possess deep expertise in AI, actively contributing to its responsible use in your area of responsibility