Senior Cloud Programs Leader | AWS & Azure

International Business Machines Corporation; Gümligen; On-site; CHF 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Career development

Training & certification

Knowledge sharing culture

Opportunity to work in IBM

Job summary

IBM Consulting in Switzerland seeks a Senior Program Leader to guide the design and evolution of large-scale enterprise cloud platforms across AWS and Azure. This role combines architectural leadership with hands-on delivery, platform engineering, and advisory duties for enterprise clients.

You will drive cloud strategy, landing-zone foundations, governance, and automation, collaborating with executives to shape roadmaps and ensure scalable, secure solutions.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in cloud architecture, infrastructure or enterprise technology.
• Deep hands-on expertise with AWS, ideally with professional-level certification.
• Strong experience with Azure and multi-cloud environments.
• Proven ability to design and operate large-scale enterprise cloud platforms.
• Strong knowledge of IAM, networking, governance, security and cloud operations.
• Experience with Platform Engineering, DevSecOps and Infrastructure as Code.
• Strong programming/automation capabilities, particularly Python, JavaScript, Terraform and/or CloudFormation.
• Experience leading technical teams and working with senior customer stakeholders.
• Strong consulting and communication skills for technical and executive audiences.
• Commercial awareness and experience supporting tenders or sales engagements.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture and technical direction of enterprise-scale AWS and Azure cloud platforms.
• Design cloud foundations, account/subscription management, IAM, networking and governance.
• Develop multi-cloud governance and landing-zone strategies.
• Lead platform engineering and DevSecOps initiatives with emphasis on automation and self-service.
• Design solutions using serverless, microservices and NoSQL architectures.
• Provide technical leadership to large engineering teams and set engineering standards.
• Collaborate with senior customer stakeholders to shape cloud strategies and roadmaps.
• Support tenders, proposals and customer engagements from a technical perspective.
• Stabilise complex engagements and restore delivery quality and confidence.
• Identify new technologies and AI-assisted development tools; represent IBM at events.

Skills

Cloud architecture

AWS

Azure

Multi-cloud

DevSecOps

Infrastructure as Code

Python

JavaScript

Terraform

CloudFormation

Team leadership

Stakeholder management

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

AWS

Azure

Job description

IBM Consulting in Switzerland seeks a Senior Program Leader to guide the design and evolution of large-scale enterprise cloud platforms across AWS and Azure. This role combines architectural leadership with hands-on delivery, platform engineering, and advisory duties for enterprise clients.

You will drive cloud strategy, landing-zone foundations, governance, and automation, collaborating with executives to shape roadmaps and ensure scalable, secure solutions.