Cloud Solutions Architect (IC)

United Nations - UN Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia

Consultant Closes 31 Aug 2026 8 days left

Overview

Provide specialized technical expertise and architectural guidance for transitioning on-premises applications to Microsoft Azure. The role involves auditing existing workloads, designing cloud architecture blueprints, and recommending cost-effective Azure resource allocations.


Key Responsibilities
  • Audit existing on-premises hosted applications and gather technical deployment requirements.
  • Analyze resource utilization metrics, compute demands, memory allocations, and architectural dependencies of on-premises VMs.
  • Design tailored Azure cloud architecture topologies and migration runbooks.
  • Evaluate and recommend migration strategies (IaaS vs. PaaS).
  • Formulate step-by-step migration technical blueprints and sequence plans.
  • Conduct cost-benefit analyses comparing on-premises footprint against Azure pricing tiers.
  • Provide recommendations for right-sizing Azure virtual machines, storage accounts, and database services.
  • Provide technical guidance on optimal Azure deployment pathways, identity management mappings, and access controls.
  • Recommend operational best practices, security baselines, and performance monitoring strategies.
Required Experience

A minimum of 4 years of professional experience in cloud systems architecture, IT infrastructure analysis, or enterprise cloud solutions design is required. Demonstrated experience in designing, evaluating, or auditing cloud infrastructure solutions on Microsoft Azure is required. Proven experience collaborating directly with software development teams to extract application performance requirements, analyze resource consumption, and translate workload metrics into optimized cloud specifications is required. Strong familiarity with cloud cost-optimization strategies, resource right-sizing, and evaluating IaaS vs. PaaS deployment models on Azure is required. Practical experience designing or planning workload migration strategies from on-premises hypervisors (specifically Proxmox VE or VMware) to Microsoft Azure is highly desirable. Official Microsoft Azure certifications (e.g., Azure Solutions Architect Expert or Azure Administrator Associate) are highly desirable.

Qualifications

A bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, Cloud Architecture, Systems Engineering, or related technical fields is required.

Other Details
Languages Required
Fluency in English is required.
Languages Preferred
Knowledge of Arabic is desirable.
Contract Duration
6 months
Work Modality
UN-House ESCWA
Remuneration
Not specified
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