Senior Expert Cloud System Architecture and Incident Management (Remote)

Project overview

We are looking for an experienced Senior Expert as a freelancer for a co-audit project in the area of cloud system architecture as well as incident and response management. This remote position is ideal for an independent subject matter expert who can independently analyze and evaluate complex IT and cloud infrastructures.

Your tasks include conducting structural analyses of complex cloud landscapes, analyzing existing alerting chains and system dependencies, and evaluating operational, security, and governance structures. You will perform technical assessments, identify risks and vulnerabilities, and evaluate the organizational and technical resilience of critical IT services. Furthermore, you will analyze high availability, redundancy, and recovery concepts as well as communication and escalation paths in incident management.

You will prepare, accompany, and evaluate interviews and workshops from a technical expert perspective. Your professional statements and expert assessments will contribute to the validation of audit findings.

Proven experience in enterprise cloud architectures (Azure, AWS, or comparable), hybrid and multi-cloud environments, network and security architectures, and identity & access management is required. Expertise in major incident management, crisis management, root cause analysis, and ITIL-based operational processes is necessary. You should be proficient in risk and vulnerability analyses, impact analyses, architecture reviews, and technical assessments. Fluent German and English skills are necessary.

This freelance position runs with a workload of 10 hours per week fully remote.

Project details

• Start: 18.11.2026
• Duration: bis 16.12.2026
• Remote: onsite
• Location: München, DE
• Languages: German, English