We are currently seeking for a freelancer for one of our major clients who meets the following requirements:

Your tasks:

• Detailed analysis and consulting of complex technical requirements from the environment of IT operations with several IT areas involved, taking into account security and compliance requirements

• Identification of architectural challenges and development of solution proposals and optimizations

• Implementation of existing technical architecture and process reviews

• Analysis of customer-specific operational processes, infrastructure and platform technologies, IT services and security and compliance requirements as a basis for assessing conformity with existing architecture requirements and for designing technical architecture solutions

• Identification and formulation of security and compliance requirements in coordination with affected IT areas (especially IT Operations)

• Documentation of requirements and technical architecture solutions

• Conducting workshops (incl. preparation and follow-up) for the analysis of

• Preparation of effort and cost estimates for conception and implementation, as well as scheduling with the client

• Regular coordination of the implementation progress with the client

• Continuous development of the IT platforms and infrastructures of the company

Your profile:

• >5 years experiences in the IT architecture/operations area

• Industry knowledge: Banking, Insurance, Financial Services

• Creation of Concepts/design of technical architecture solutions in the area of IT Operations

• Definition and continuous development of overarching architecture principles and specifications

• and specifications

• Analysis and evaluation of technical architecture problems

• Ensuring conformity with existing architecture and compliance requirements

• Documentation

• Certifications e.g. TOGAF, MCSE, MS Azure, AWS, SCRUM, ITIL etc.

• Several years of experience in the application of the following technologies/methods: Cloud (Azure Public, Azure Stack Hub/HCI, AWS, Pivotal Kubernetes (PKS), Central Stacks: (SAP, Azure Stack, Databases (Oracle ExaCC, Oracle, MSSQL), IaaS (VMWare vSphere)

• Experience in the following areas: Virtualization, Firewall (PaloAlto(CheckPoint), Network Security, Storage, LAN/WAN, Loadbalancing (F5), Compute, IT Standard etc.

• Experience in project management as well as with agile Scrum

• Fluent in English, basic in German (desirable)

Frame parameters:

• Workload: Full time

• Location: Remote (100%)

• Duration: 01.09.2023 – 3 years

Your GECO contact person is looking forward to hearing from you and to receiving your current project history (Word document) including information on your availability and salary requirements.