System Architecture jobs in Lebanon

<p><br></p><div><div><div><div> </div> <div> <p> </p> <p> </p> </div> <div> <p> <b>What You Will Do</b> </p> <p> </p> </div> <div> <p> <b>Business Domain Architecture</b> </p> </div> <div> <ul> <li> <p> <span>Own the target architecture and roadmap for the Operations domain.</span> </p> </li> </ul> </div> <div> <ul> <li> <p> <span>Drive the evolution of business capabilities across collateral, settlement, reconciliation, and processing workflows.</span> </p> </li> </ul> </div> <div> <ul> <li> <p> <span>Translate strategic business challenges into scalable platform solutions.</span> </p> </li> </ul> </div> <div> <ul> <li> <p> <span>Ensure architectural consistency across products, services, and software functions.</span> </p> </li> </ul> </div> </div> <div> <div> <ul> <li> <p> <span>Define and maintain business solution blueprints and domain architecture documentation.</span> </p> </li> </ul> </div> <div> <p> </p> <p> <b>SBI Architecture Leadership</b> </p> </div> <div> <ul> <li> <p> <span>Define and communicate SBI-level architecture.</span> </p> </li> </ul> </div> <div> <ul> <li> <p> <span>Ensure epics, features, and implementation roadmaps align with business and platform architecture objectives.</span> </p> </li> </ul> </div> <div> <ul> <li> <p> <span>Drive architectural trade-offs, investment decisions, sequencing, and dependency management.</span> </p> </li> </ul> </div> <div> <ul> <li> <p> <span>Collaborate across domains and agile trains to ensure coherent delivery and long-term sustainability. (Derived from the SBI Architect responsibilities shown in the provided material.) </span> </p> </li> </ul> </div> <div> <p> </p> <p> <b>System Architecture</b> </p> </div> <div> <ul> <li> <p> <span>Guide agile trains in delivering solutions aligned with architecture principles and standards.</span> </p> </li> </ul> </div> <div> <ul> <li> <p> <span>Ensure architecturally significant requirements are identified, documented, and addressed.</span> </p> </li> </ul> </div> <div> <ul> <li> <p> <span>Manage technical debt and architectural runway investments.</span> </p> </li> </ul> </div> <div> <ul> <li> <p> <span>Validate solution designs through architecture governance processes.</span> </p> </li> </ul> </div> <div> <ul> <li> <p> <span>Mentor teams and raise architectural maturity across the organization.</span> </p> </li> </ul> </div> <div> <p> </p> <p> <b>Architectural Governance</b> </p> </div> <div> <ul> <li> <p> <span>Lead architecture reviews and decision-making processes.</span> </p> </li> </ul> </div> <div> <ul> <li> <p> <span>Own Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) and architecture governance practices.</span> </p> </li> </ul> </div> <div> <ul> <li> <p> <span>Define and maintain standards, guidelines, design principles, and reference architectures.</span> </p> </li> </ul> </div> <div> <ul> <li> <p> <span>Influence strategic technology choices and platform evolution.</span> </p> </li> </ul> </div> <div> <p> </p> <p> </p> </div> <div> <p> <b>What You Will Own</b> </p> <p> </p> </div> <div> <p> <span>You will be accountable for key architecture artifacts including:</span> </p> </div> </div> <div> <div> <ul> <li> <p> <span>Architecture vision and multi-year roadmap</span> </p> </li> </ul> </div> <div> <ul> <li> <p> <span>Domain blueprints and target-state architectures</span> </p> </li> </ul> </div> <div> <ul> <li> <p> <span>Architecture Decision Records (ADRs)</span> </p> </li> </ul> </div> <div> <ul> <li> <p> <span>High-level solution and integration diagrams</span> </p> </li> </ul> </div> <div> <ul> <li> <p> <span>Capability and non-functional architecture documentation</span> </p> </li> </ul> </div> <div> <ul> <li> <p> <span>Governance frameworks and architecture standards</span> </p> </li> </ul> </div> <div> <ul> <li> <p> <span>Executive architecture communications and strategy presentations</span> </p> </li> </ul> </div> <div> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> <b>What We're Looking For</b> </p> <p> </p> </div> <div> <p> <b>Required Experience</b> </p> </div> <div> <ul> <li> <p> <span>12+ years of experience designing large-scale enterprise software platforms.</span> </p> </li> </ul> </div> <div> <ul> <li> <p> <span>Strong software architecture expertise covering distributed systems, cloud-native architectures, event-driven systems, integration platforms, scalability, resilience, and security.</span> </p> </li> </ul> </div> <div> <ul> <li> <p> <span>Proven experience leading architecture across multiple teams and products.</span> </p> </li> </ul> </div> <div> <ul> <li> <p> <span>Experience influencing strategic technology decisions without direct authority.</span> </p> </li> </ul> </div> <div> <ul> <li> <p> <span>Strong understanding of software delivery within agile organizations.</span> </p> </li> </ul> </div> <div> <ul> <li> <p> <span>Demonstrated ability to mentor senior engineers and architects.</span> </p> </li> </ul> </div> <div> <p> </p> <p><br></p></div></div><div><div> </div> </div> <p> </p> </div> </div> <div> <div> </div> </div>

<p><br></p><p>Your Mission</p><p>As the architectural leader for the Operations domain, you will ensure that business solutions evolve coherently with Murex's platform strategy while delivering measurable value to clients and market participants. You will serve as the primary architecture partner for business domain management, product management, development teams, and platform architects, ensuring alignment between business objectives, software architecture, and execution strategy.</p><p>What You Will Do</p><p>Business Domain Architecture</p><ul><li>Own the target architecture and roadmap for the Operations domain.</li><li>Drive the evolution of business capabilities across collateral, settlement, reconciliation, and processing workflows.</li><li>Translate strategic business challenges into scalable platform solutions.</li><li>Ensure architectural consistency across products, services, and software functions.</li><li>Define and maintain business solution blueprints and domain architecture documentation.</li></ul><p>SBI Architecture Leadership</p><ul><li>Define and communicate SBI-level architecture.</li><li>Ensure epics, features, and implementation roadmaps align with business and platform architecture objectives.</li><li>Drive architectural trade-offs, investment decisions, sequencing, and dependency management.</li><li>Collaborate across domains and agile trains to ensure coherent delivery and long-term sustainability. (Derived from the SBI Architect responsibilities shown in the provided material.)</li></ul><p>System Architecture</p><ul><li>Guide agile trains in delivering solutions aligned with architecture principles and standards.</li><li>Ensure architecturally significant requirements are identified, documented, and addressed.</li><li>Manage technical debt and architectural runway investments.</li><li>Validate solution designs through architecture governance processes.</li><li>Mentor teams and raise architectural maturity across the organization.</li></ul><p>Architectural Governance</p><ul><li>Lead architecture reviews and decision-making processes.</li><li>Own Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) and architecture governance practices.</li><li>Define and maintain standards, guidelines, design principles, and reference architectures.</li><li>Influence strategic technology choices and platform evolution.</li></ul><p>What You Will Own</p><p>You will be accountable for key architecture artifacts including:</p><ul><li>Architecture vision and multi-year roadmap</li><li>Domain blueprints and target-state architectures</li><li>Architecture Decision Records (ADRs)</li><li>High-level solution and integration diagrams</li><li>Capability and non-functional architecture documentation</li><li>Governance frameworks and architecture standards</li><li>Executive architecture communications and strategy presentations</li></ul><p><strong>Desired Candidate Profile</strong></p><ul><li>Extensive experience designing large-scale enterprise software platforms.</li><li>Strong software architecture expertise covering distributed systems, cloud-native architectures, event-driven systems, integration platforms, scalability, resilience, and security.</li><li>Proven experience leading architecture across multiple teams and products.</li><li>Experience influencing strategic technology decisions without direct authority.</li><li>Strong understanding of software delivery within agile organizations.</li><li>Demonstrated ability to mentor senior engineers and architects.</li><li>Domain Expertise We are particularly interested in candidates with experience in one or more of the following areas: Capital Markets Securities Finance Collateral Management Post-Trade Processing Settlement &amp; Clearing Reconciliation Platforms Operations and Back Office Systems Risk, Regulatory and Financial Market Infrastructure solutions</li><li>Leadership Characteristics You are: A strategic thinker capable of defining long-term architectural vision. Comfortable making complex trade-offs involving business value, delivery cost, scalability, and risk. Able to influence senior stakeholders across product, engineering, and business functions. Passionate about architecture excellence, technical mentoring, and organizational transformation. Equally comfortable discussing details with developers and strategy with executives.</li></ul>

<p>Aspire Software is looking for an AI Engineering Manager to join our team in Lebanon. Here is a little window into our company: Aspire Software operates and manages wholly owned software companies, providing mission-critical solutions across multiple verticals. By implementing industry best practices, Aspire delivers a time sensitive integration process, and the operation of a decentralized model has allowed it to become a hub for creating rapid growth by reinvesting in its portfolio.</p><p>About the job: The AI Engineering Manager leads a cross-functional team (Development &amp; QA) and owns technical architecture, delivery outcomes, AI-enabled system design and driving an AI first culture among your team. This role is both strategic and hands-on. It requires strong expertise in modern AI frameworks, applied AI architectures, and scalable system design. The manager is accountable for delivering stable, secure, AI-powered capabilities not just managing execution.</p><p>Core Responsibilities</p><strong>Technical Leadership &amp; Architecture</strong><ul><li>Own product architecture, including AI/LLM-integrated components</li><li>Design scalable, secure, and maintainable systems</li><li>Lead decisions involving: LLM integration (OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, etc.)</li><li>RAG architectures and vector databases</li><li>AI orchestration frameworks (LangChain, Semantic Kernel, LlamaIndex)</li><li>Ensure system reliability, observability, and cost efficiency</li><li>Establish AI governance and safe usage practices</li></ul><strong>AI Framework &amp; Methodology Expertise</strong><ul><li>Apply modern AI methodologies, including:</li><li>Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)</li><li>Prompt engineering and evaluation</li><li>AI output validation and guardrails</li><li>Human-in-the-loop workflows</li><li>Model monitoring and performance evaluation</li><li>Drive experimentation, A/B testing, and telemetry-based decision making</li></ul><strong>Team Leadership</strong><ul><li>Lead and mentor developers and QA engineers</li><li>Raise AI literacy across the team</li><li>Establish AI-native coding and review standards</li><li>Balance speed, quality, and architectural integrity</li></ul><strong>Delivery &amp; Outcome Ownership</strong><ul><li>Own predictable, high-quality releases</li><li>Ensure AI features are measurable, validated, and production-ready</li><li>Act as technical escalation point</li><li>Drive cross-team alignment with Product, Data, and DevOps</li></ul><strong>AI-Driven Engineering Excellence</strong><ul><li>Leverage AI-assisted development tools to improve velocity</li><li>Optimize AI cost-performance tradeoffs</li><li>Embed automation into testing and CI/CD pipelines</li></ul><p>7+ years software engineering experience, 2+ years in technical leadership</p><p>Hands-on experience building and deploying AI-enabled systems</p><p>Strong knowledge of:</p><ul><li>LLM integration and prompt design</li><li>RAG architectures and vector search</li><li>AI orchestration frameworks</li><li>Cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, or GCP)</li><li>Experience designing scalable distributed systems</li></ul><p>Preferred Experience in regulated industries</p><p>AI governance and compliance knowledge</p><p>Model lifecycle management and monitoring tools</p><p><strong>Desired Candidate Profile</strong></p><p>7+ years software engineering experience, 2+ years in technical leadership</p><p>Hands-on experience building and deploying AI-enabled systems</p><p>Strong knowledge of:</p><ul><li>LLM integration and prompt design</li><li>RAG architectures and vector search</li><li>AI orchestration frameworks</li><li>Cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, or GCP)</li><li>Experience designing scalable distributed systems</li></ul><p>Preferred Experience in regulated industries</p><p>AI governance and compliance knowledge</p><p>Model lifecycle management and monitoring tools</p>

<h2 class="h5">Job description</h2> <div class="t-break" data-jb-field="description"> <p><span>Murex is a global fintech leader in trading, risk management and processing solutions for capital markets.</span></p><br><p><span>Operating from our 19 offices, 3 400 Murexians from over 65 different nationalities ensure the development, implementation and support of our platform which is used by banks, asset managers, corporations and utilities, across the world.&nbsp;</span></p><br><p><span>Join Murex and work on the challenges of an industry at the forefront of innovation and thrive in a people-centric environment. You’ll be part of one global team where you can learn fast and stay true to yourself.</span></p><br><p><span><span>We are looking for a </span></span><b><span>Business Domain Solution Architect</span></b><span><span>to lead the architecture of our </span></span><b><span>Operations Business Domain</span></b><span><span>, covering critical post-trade and operational functions including:</span></span></p><br><br><ul><li><p><span><span>Collateral Management</span></span></p><br></li></ul><br><ul><li><p><span><span>Settlements</span></span></p><br></li></ul><br><ul><li><p><span><span>Reconciliation</span></span></p><br></li></ul><br><ul><li><p><span><span>One Stop Processing (OSP)</span></span></p><br></li></ul><br><p><span><span>This role combines the responsibilities of </span></span><b><span>Business Domain Architect</span></b><span><span>, </span></span><b><span>System Architect</span></b><span><span>, and </span></span><b><span>SBI Architect</span></b><span><span>, making it one of the most strategic architecture positions within the organization.</span></span></p><br><br><p><span><span>You will define the architectural vision for a major business domain, influence product strategy, shape large-scale platform evolution, and ensure successful delivery across multiple development organizations and agile trains</span><span>.</span></span></p><br><br><p><b><span>Your Mission</span></b></p><br><br><p><span><span>As the architectural leader for the Operations domain, you will ensure that business solutions evolve coherently with Murex's platform strategy while delivering measurable value to clients and market participants.</span></span></p><br><br><p><span><span>You will serve as the primary architecture partner for business domain management, product management, development teams, and platform architects, ensuring alignment between business objectives, software architecture, and execution strategy.&nbsp;</span></span></p><br><br><p><b><span>What You Will Do</span></b></p><br><br><p><b><span>Business Domain Architecture</span></b></p><br><br><ul><li><p><span><span>Own the target architecture and roadmap for the Operations domain.</span></span></p><br></li></ul><br><ul><li><p><span><span>Drive the evolution of business capabilities across collateral, settlement, reconciliation, and processing workflows.</span></span></p><br></li></ul><br><ul><li><p><span><span>Translate strategic business challenges into scalable platform solutions.</span></span></p><br></li></ul><br><ul><li><p><span><span>Ensure architectural consistency across products, services, and software functions.</span></span></p><br></li></ul><br><br><ul><li><p><span><span>Define and maintain business solution blueprints and domain architecture documentation.</span></span></p><br></li></ul><br><p><b><span>SBI Architecture Leadership</span></b></p><br><br><ul><li><p><span><span>Define and communicate SBI-level architecture.</span></span></p><br></li></ul><br><ul><li><p><span><span>Ensure epics, features, and implementation roadmaps align with business and platform architecture objectives.</span></span></p><br></li></ul><br><ul><li><p><span><span>Drive architectural trade-offs, investment decisions, sequencing, and dependency management.</span></span></p><br></li></ul><br><ul><li><p><span><span>Collaborate across domains and agile trains to ensure coherent delivery and long-term sustainability. (Derived from the SBI Architect responsibilities shown in the provided material.)</span></span></p><br></li></ul><br><p><b><span>System Architecture</span></b></p><br><br><ul><li><p><span><span>Guide agile trains in delivering solutions aligned with architecture principles and standards.</span></span></p><br></li></ul><br><ul><li><p><span><span>Ensure architecturally significant requirements are identified, documented, and addressed.</span></span></p><br></li></ul><br><ul><li><p><span><span>Manage technical debt and architectural runway investments.</span></span></p><br></li></ul><br><ul><li><p><span><span>Validate solution designs through architecture governance processes.</span></span></p><br></li></ul><br><ul><li><p><span><span>Mentor teams and raise architectural maturity across the organization.</span></span></p><br></li></ul><br><p><b><span>Architectural Governance</span></b></p><br><br><ul><li><p><span><span>Lead architecture reviews and decision-making processes.</span></span></p><br></li></ul><br><ul><li><p><span><span>Own Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) and architecture governance practices.</span></span></p><br></li></ul><br><ul><li><p><span><span>Define and maintain standards, guidelines, design principles, and reference architectures.</span></span></p><br></li></ul><br><ul><li><p><span><span>Influence strategic technology choices and platform evolution</span><span>.</span></span></p><br></li></ul><br><p><b><span>What You Will Own</span></b></p><br><br><p><span><span>You will be accountable for key architecture artifacts including:</span></span></p><br><br><br><ul><li><p><span><span>Architecture vision and multi-year roadmap</span></span></p><br></li></ul><br><ul><li><p><span><span>Domain blueprints and target-state architectures</span></span></p><br></li></ul><br><ul><li><p><span><span>Architecture Decision Records (ADRs)</span></span></p><br></li></ul><br><ul><li><p><span><span>High-level solution and integration diagrams</span></span></p><br></li></ul><br><ul><li><p><span><span>Capability and non-functional architecture documentation</span></span></p><br></li></ul><br><ul><li><p><span><span>Governance frameworks and architecture standards</span></span></p><br></li></ul><br><ul><li><p><span><span>Executive architecture communications and strategy presentations</span></span></p><br></li></ul><br><p><b><span>What We're Looking For</span></b></p><br><br><p><b><span>Required Experience</span></b></p><br><br><ul><li><p><span><span>12+ years of experience designing large-scale enterprise software platforms.</span></span></p><br></li></ul><br><ul><li><p><span><span>Strong software architecture expertise covering distributed systems, cloud-native architectures, event-driven systems, integration platforms, scalability, resilience, and security.</span></span></p><br></li></ul><br><ul><li><p><span><span>Proven experience leading architecture across multiple teams and products.</span></span></p><br></li></ul><br><ul><li><p><span><span>Experience influencing strategic technology decisions without direct authority.</span></span></p><br></li></ul><br><ul><li><p><span><span>Strong understanding of software delivery within agile organizations.</span></span></p><br></li></ul><br><ul><li><p><span><span>Demonstrated ability to mentor senior engineers and architects.</span></span></p><br></li></ul><br><p><b><span>Domain Expertise</span></b></p><br><br><p><span><span>We are particularly interested in candidates with experience in one or more of the following areas:</span></span></p><br><br><ul><li><p><span><span>Capital Markets</span></span></p><br></li></ul><br><ul><li><p><span><span>Securities Finance</span></span></p><br></li></ul><br><ul><li><p><span><span>Collateral Management</span></span></p><br></li></ul><br><br><ul><li><p><span><span>Post-Trade Processing</span></span></p><br></li></ul><br><ul><li><p><span><span>Settlement &amp; Clearing</span></span></p><br></li></ul><br><ul><li><p><span><span>Reconciliation Platforms</span></span></p><br></li></ul><br><ul><li><p><span><span>Operations and Back Office Systems</span></span></p><br></li></ul><br><ul><li><p><span><span>Risk, Regulatory and Financial Market Infrastructure solutions</span></span></p><br></li></ul><br><p><b><span>Leadership Characteristics</span></b></p><br><br><p><span><span>You are:</span></span></p><br><br><ul><li><p><span><span>A strategic thinker capable of defining long-term architectural vision.</span></span></p><br></li></ul><br><ul><li><p><span><span>Comfortable making complex trade-offs involving business value, delivery cost, scalability, and risk.</span></span></p><br></li></ul><br><ul><li><p><span><span>Able to influence senior stakeholders across product, engineering, and business functions.</span></span></p><br></li></ul><br><ul><li><p><span><span>Passionate about architecture excellence, technical mentoring, and organizational transformation.</span></span></p><br></li></ul><br><ul><li><p><span><span>Equally comfortable discussing details with developers and strategy with executives.</span></span></p><br></li></ul><br><p><b><span>Why Join Us?</span></b></p><br><br><p><span><span>This role offers a unique opportunity to:</span></span></p><br><br><ul><li><p><span><span>Shape the future architecture of one of the industry's leading capital markets platforms.</span></span></p><br></li></ul><br><ul><li><p><span><span>Drive business and technology strategy for mission-critical post-trade functions.</span></span></p><br></li></ul><br><ul><li><p><span><span>Work with highly experienced architects, engineers, and domain experts.</span></span></p><br></li></ul><br><ul><li><p><span><span>Influence platform-wide architectural decisions with long-term impact.</span></span></p><br></li></ul><br><ul><li><p><span><span>Operate at the intersection of business innovation, software engineering, and enterprise architecture.</span></span></p><br></li></ul><br><p><span><span>If you are passionate about building the future of financial technology and want to drive architecture at scale, we'd love to hear from you.</span></span></p><br><br><br><br><br> </div>

<h2 class="h5">Job description</h2> <div class="t-break" data-jb-field="description"> <span>Aspire Software is looking for an AI Engineering Manager to join our team in Lebanon.<br> Here is a little window into our company: Aspire Software operates and manages wholly owned software companies, providing mission-critical solutions across multiple verticals.<br> By implementing industry best practices, Aspire delivers a time sensitive integration process, and the operation of a decentralized model has allowed it to become a hub for creating rapid growth by reinvesting in its portfolio.<br> About the job: The AI Engineering Manager leads a cross-functional team (Development &amp; QA) and owns technical architecture, delivery outcomes, AI-enabled system design and driving an AI first culture among your team.<br> This role is both strategic and hands-on.<br> It requires strong expertise in modern AI frameworks, applied AI architectures, and scalable system design.<br> The manager is accountable for delivering stable, secure, AI-powered capabilities — not just managing execution.<br> Core Responsibilities Technical Leadership &amp; Architecture Own product architecture, including AI/LLM-integrated components Design scalable, secure, and maintainable systems Lead decisions involving: LLM integration (OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, etc.<br>) RAG architectures and vector databases AI orchestration frameworks (LangChain, Semantic Kernel, LlamaIndex) Ensure system reliability, observability, and cost efficiency Establish AI governance and safe usage practices AI Framework &amp; Methodology Expertise Apply modern AI methodologies, including: Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) Prompt engineering and evaluation AI output validation and guardrails Human-in-the-loop workflows Model monitoring and performance evaluation Drive experimentation, A/B testing, and telemetry-based decision making Team Leadership Lead and mentor developers and QA engineers Raise AI literacy across the team Establish AI-native coding and review standards Balance speed, quality, and architectural integrity Delivery &amp; Outcome Ownership Own predictable, high-quality releases Ensure AI features are measurable, validated, and production-ready Act as technical escalation point Drive cross-team alignment with Product, Data, and DevOps AI-Driven Engineering Excellence Leverage AI-assisted development tools to improve velocity Optimize AI cost-performance tradeoffs Embed automation into testing and CI/CD pipelines 7+ years software engineering experience, 2+ years in technical leadership Hands-on experience building and deploying AI-enabled systems Strong knowledge of: LLM integration and prompt design RAG architectures and vector search AI orchestration frameworks Cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, or GCP) Experience designing scalable distributed systems Preferred Experience in regulated industries AI governance and compliance knowledge Model lifecycle management and monitoring tools</span> </div>

Bright Volcano is looking for an experienced Senior Software Engineer / Technical Lead to join our growing technical team and take a key role in developing our ERP, CRM, Web, Mobile & AI Automation solutions. <br> <br>Key Responsibilities & Skills: <br>• Lead and support the development team <br>• Develop and manage complex ERP & CRM systems <br>• Strong Backend & API development experience <br>• Database architecture & management <br>• Web & Mobile Application Development <br>• System architecture & technical planning <br>• AI Integration & Automation Workflows <br>• Experience with LLMs (Large Language Models) and AI APIs <br>• Build AI assistants, intelligent workflows & business automation <br>• Third-party API and system integrations <br>• Code review, testing & performance optimization <br>• Manage technical tasks, priorities & deadlines <br>• Troubleshoot complex technical issues <br>• Work closely with Project & Product Managers <br> <br>ERP Experience: <br>• Experience with Odoo, Oracle ERP, SAP, or similar enterprise ERP platforms <br>• Understanding of ERP architecture, modules & business workflows <br>• Accounting, Inventory, Sales, CRM, HR & Operations modules <br>• ERP integrations, customization & automation <br> <br>Preferred Technologies: <br>PHP / Laravel • MySQL • REST APIs • Next.js / React • Mobile Development • Git • LLMs • AI APIs • Automation Tools • Odoo / Oracle / SAP <br> <br>We’re looking for someone who can code, lead, automate, solve problems, understand business processes, and take ownership of technical projects from architecture to delivery. <br> <br>Join Bright Volcano and help us build the next generation of AI-powered business solutions

<p>The IC will provide specialized technical expertise and architectural guidance for transitioning on-premises applications to Microsoft Azure. The IC will work in close coordination with the internal development and infrastructure teams to audit existing application workloads, evaluate current Proxmox VM resource metrics, and analyze performance requirements. Based on this assessment, the consultant will design tailored cloud architecture blueprints, formulate step-by-step system migration strategies, and recommend the most cost-effective Azure resource allocations to achieve optimal performance. The IC will deliver actionable solution designs and technical specifications for the internal teams to execute during provisioning and deployment.</p><p><strong>Desired Candidate Profile</strong></p><h2>Qualifications/special skills</h2> <p>A bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, Cloud Architecture, Systems Engineering, or related technical fields is required. All candidates must submit a copy of the required educational degree. Incomplete applications will not be reviewed.</p> <p>A minimum of 4 years of professional experience in cloud systems architecture, IT infrastructure analysis, or enterprise cloud solutions design is required.</p> <p>Demonstrated experience in designing, evaluating, or auditing cloud infrastructure solutions on Microsoft Azure is required.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>Strong familiarity with cloud cost-optimization strategies, resource right-sizing, and evaluating IaaS vs. PaaS deployment models on Azure is required.</p> <p>Practical experience designing or planning workload migration strategies from on-premises hypervisors (specifically Proxmox VE or VMware) to Microsoft Azure is highly desirable.</p> <p>Official Microsoft Azure certifications (e.g., Azure Solutions Architect Expert or Azure Administrator Associate) are highly desirable.</p> <p>Excellent analytical, architectural, and communication skills are required.</p> <p>English and French are the working languages of the United Nations Secretariat; and Arabic is a working language of ESCWA. For this position, fluency in English is required and knowledge of Arabic is desirable. Note: Fluency equals a rating of fluent in all four areas (speak, read, write, and understand) and Knowledge of equals a rating of confident in two of the four areas.</p>

<p>The IC will provide specialized technical expertise in the implementation, administration, monitoring, and optimization of cloud infrastructure and DevOps platforms within Microsoft Azure. The IC will be responsible for ensuring the availability, security, scalability, and performance of enterprise systems, managing CI/CD pipelines, and writing Infrastructure as Code (IaC). Crucially, the IC will work in close coordination with the internal development team to analyze existing on-premises application architectures, gather deployment requirements, and translate current on-premises VM resource metrics into optimized, cloud-native Azure resource allocations. The IC will also execute the tactical technical migration of legacy systems from an on-premises Proxmox virtualization environment to the Microsoft Azure cloud platform.</p><p><strong>Background:</strong> The Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) forms part of the United Nations Secretariat and, like the other regional commissions, operates under the supervision of the United Nations Economic and Social Council. ESCWA comprises 21 Arab countries in Western Asia and North Africa. ESCWA provides a framework for the formulation and harmonization of sectoral policies for member countries, a platform for congress and coordination, a home for expertise and knowledge, and an information observatory. ESCWA activities are coordinated with the divisions and main offices of the Headquarters of the United Nations, specialized agencies, and international and regional organizations, including the League of Arab States and its subsidiary bodies, and the Gulf Cooperation Council. This position is located in the Decision-Support and Data Science Division (DSDSD). The Decision-Support and Data Science Division is part of ESCWA's broader modernization and innovation efforts, providing advanced analytics, secure digital platforms, and decision-support services within ESCWA, other UN entities, and Member States. Aligned with the UN 2.0 agenda and grounded in operational resilience, DSDS leverages cutting-edge hybrid infrastructure, scalable cloud tech frameworks, and modern deployment models to ensure high availability, security, and performance for critical digital assets. Its core functions include enterprise cloud environment management, infrastructure automation, continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) optimization, and the migration of legacy on-premises platforms to advanced public cloud ecosystems. Through these capabilities, DSDS maintains reliable, enterprise-grade digital decision-support tools that empower evidence-based decision-making and foster organizational efficiency across the region. Under the supervision of the Chief of the Decision-Support and Data Science Division and in close collaboration with the infrastructure and digital development teams, the Individual Contractor (IC) will support the implementation, automation, secure hosting, and optimization of core cloud systems and scalable technology environments to support strategic initiative delivery.</p><p><strong>Duties and responsibilities:</strong> Within delegated authority, the IC will be responsible for independently performing the following:</p><ul><li><strong>Cloud Infrastructure Implementation &amp; Administration:</strong><ul><li>Deploy, manage, and optimize enterprise-scale cloud resources within Microsoft Azure, ensuring optimal performance, governance, and resource utilization.</li><li>Administer hybrid virtualization architectures, transitioning existing virtual machines and workloads out of the on-premises Proxmox environment into designated Azure landing zones.</li><li>Maintain and configure base operating systems across enterprise Windows Server and Linux environments hosted in the cloud.</li></ul></li><li><strong>DevOps Platform Engineering &amp; Infrastructure as Code (IaC):</strong><ul><li>Design, build, and maintain automated CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps to support rapid, secure, and reliable software delivery cycles.</li><li>Author, review, and maintain infrastructure state using Infrastructure as Code tools, specifically Terraform, Bicep, and ARM Templates.</li><li>Develop automated operational scripts utilizing PowerShell to streamline recurring system administration and provisioning tasks.</li></ul></li><li><strong>Application Lifecycle &amp; Developer Collaboration:</strong><ul><li>Work closely with the development team to audit existing on-premises hosted applications and gather technical requirements for upcoming Azure cloud deployments.</li><li>Analyze the resource utilization and architectural dependencies of applications currently running on on-premises virtual machines to determine the optimal Azure cloud topology.</li><li>Evaluate and recommend whether applications should be migrated as traditional Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) virtual machines or refactored into cloud-native Azure resources (such as App Services, Azure SQL, or container instances) to maximize scalability and cost-efficiency.</li><li>Provide technical guidance to developers regarding cloud deployment pathways, access control configurations, and performance optimization on Azure.</li></ul></li><li><strong>Cloud Security, Identity, &amp; Monitoring:</strong><ul><li>Manage cloud governance, object lifecycles, and secure identity mapping through Azure Active Directory (Azure AD / Entra ID).</li><li>Configure comprehensive observability setups using Azure Monitor and Log Analytics to establish proactive system alerts, log analysis, and performance tracking.</li><li>Implement infrastructure hardening, security controls, and operational best practices across all deployed cloud frameworks.</li></ul></li></ul><p><strong>Desired Candidate Profile</strong></p><p>A bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, Cloud Engineering, System Administration, or related technical fields is required. All candidates must submit a copy of the required educational degree. Incomplete applications will not be reviewed. A minimum of 3 years of professional experience in system administration, IT infrastructure operations, or cloud platforms architecture is required. Demonstrated hands-on experience deploying, administering, and monitoring production cloud environments using Microsoft Azure is required. Proven experience building automated CI/CD pipelines and developing infrastructure deployments utilizing Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform, Bicep, or ARM Templates) is required. Proven experience collaborating directly with software development teams to extract application performance metrics, translate software requirements into infrastructure specifications, and plan application modernization strategies is required. Solid technical proficiency in scripting with PowerShell and configuring core infrastructure services, including Windows Server, Linux, and Azure Active Directory, is desirable. Practical technical experience supporting or executing system migrations from on-premises hypervisors (specifically Proxmox VE or VMware) to public cloud environments (Microsoft Azure) is highly desirable. Official Microsoft certifications (e.g., Azure Administrator Associate, Azure DevOps Engineer Expert, or Azure Solutions Architect Expert) are highly desirable.</p><p>English and French are the working languages of the United Nations Secretariat; and Arabic is a working language of ESCWA. For this position, fluency in English is required and knowledge of Arabic is desirable. Note: Fluency equals a rating of fluent in all four areas (speak, read, write, and understand) and Knowledge of equals a rating of confident in two of the four areas.</p>

<h2 class="h5">Job description</h2> <div class="t-break" data-jb-field="description"> Company Description<br><p>We are <strong>Ethos, </strong>the fastest growing digital communication group in MENA. We think big and&nbsp;we make big ideas come to life. We are crazy about the digital world and we aim high. We are looking for talented and valued people with interesting and provocative ideas, along with bold and diverse perspectives. Our culture is all about the thriving young team of us in 4 offices around MENA, while we boldly help impact the success of&nbsp; leading brands like McDonald's, General Motors, and American Express.</p><br><br>Job Description<br><p>We are looking for an experienced AI Systems &amp; Automation Engineer to design and build the systems that move work across the organization. This is a project-based engagement focused on building new workflows and strengthening how our teams operate.</p><br><p>You will work across teams to turn complex processes into reliable, scalable workflows, connecting models, data, platforms, and internal tools with a strong focus on performance, usability, and long term maintainability.</p><br><p><strong>Responsibilities</strong></p><br><ul><li>Design and build intelligent systems and automation workflows across business functions.</li><li>Develop agentic and multi agent architectures for orchestration, retrieval, validation, and execution.</li><li>Integrate platforms and services through APIs, MCP, webhooks, databases, and internal systems.</li><li>Build knowledge, retrieval, and memory layers across structured and unstructured data, and develop the backend services and data pipelines beneath them.</li><li>Create human in the loop workflows, approval logic, and quality control mechanisms, and identify which processes should stay manual.</li><li>Own reliability, scalability, observability, and maintainability across deployed systems.</li><li>Establish clear technical standards, documentation, and implementation practices the team can maintain.</li></ul><br>Qualifications<br><ul><li>Proven professional experience in AI engineering, software engineering, systems architecture, automation, or applied machine learning.</li><li>A track record of taking systems from architecture and prototype through to stable production deployment.</li><li>Deep working knowledge of LLMs in production: agentic systems, tool use, orchestration, retrieval, embeddings, vector search, contextual memory, and structured outputs.</li><li>Strong experience with APIs, MCP, service integrations, databases, webhooks, and data pipelines.</li><li>Advanced programming skills in Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, or comparable languages.</li><li>Experience with cloud infrastructure, containerization, deployment, version control, monitoring, and observability.</li><li>Strong understanding of authentication, permissions, data security, and system reliability.</li><li>Strong systems thinking and the ability to simplify complex workflows without compromising technical rigor.</li><li>Ability to work effectively with both technical and non technical teams.</li><li>Experience working within creative, marketing, media, content, strategy, or operational environments.</li><li>Experience with internal platforms, knowledge systems, generative pipelines, workflow engines, or enterprise automation.</li><li>Arabic and English working proficiency, or experience building bilingual content systems.</li></ul><br><br> </div>

<p>About the Role We're looking for an AI Engineer to design, build, and scale the systems that power our AI-driven product. You'll work at the intersection of large language models, multi-agent systems, and production software, turning cutting-edge AI capabilities into reliable, user-facing experiences.</p><p>What You'll Do</p><ul><li>Design and implement LLM-powered pipelines, including prompt engineering, context management, and response synthesis</li><li>Build and optimize multi-agent orchestration systems where AI components interact, reason, and produce coherent outputs</li><li>Develop and maintain integrations with foundation model APIs (Anthropic, OpenAI, and others), managing latency, cost, and reliability at scale</li><li>Implement retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and memory systems for persistent, context-aware behavior</li><li>Partner with the Evaluation/QA Engineer to build frameworks that measure output quality, coherence, and factual grounding</li><li>Collaborate with product and design to translate workflows into robust technical experiences</li><li>Ship production features across the stack, from the model layer to the application</li><li>Monitor, debug, and improve system performance, token efficiency, and guardrails</li></ul><p><strong>Desired Candidate Profile</strong></p><p>Qualifications</p><ul><li>3+ years of software engineering experience, with hands-on work building LLM-powered applications</li><li>Strong proficiency in Python and/or TypeScript/JavaScript</li><li>Experience with LLM APIs, prompt engineering, and agentic frameworks (e.g., LangChain, LlamaIndex, or custom orchestration)</li><li>Familiarity with vector databases and RAG architectures (Pinecone, Weaviate, pgvector, etc.)</li><li>Understanding of multi-agent systems, tool use, and function calling</li><li>Experience designing evaluation and testing strategies for non-deterministic AI outputs</li><li>Solid grasp of API design, async processing, and scalable backend architecture</li><li>Comfort working in a fast-moving, ambiguous, early-stage environment</li></ul>

<p>We're looking for an AI Engineer to design, build, and scale the systems that power our AI-driven product. You'll work at the intersection of large language models, multi-agent systems, and production software, turning cutting-edge AI capabilities into reliable, user-facing experiences.</p><p><b>What You'll Do</b></p><ul><li>Design and implement LLM-powered pipelines, including prompt engineering, context management, and response synthesis</li><li>Build and optimize multi-agent orchestration systems where AI components interact, reason, and produce coherent outputs</li><li>Develop and maintain integrations with foundation model APIs (Anthropic, OpenAI, and others), managing latency, cost, and reliability at scale</li><li>Implement retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and memory systems for persistent, context-aware behavior</li><li>Partner with the Evaluation/QA Engineer to build frameworks that measure output quality, coherence, and factual grounding</li><li>Collaborate with product and design to translate workflows into robust technical experiences</li><li>Ship production features across the stack, from the model layer to the application</li><li>Monitor, debug, and improve system performance, token efficiency, and guardrails</li></ul><p><strong>Desired Candidate Profile</strong></p><p>3+ years of software engineering experience, with hands-on work building LLM-powered applications</p><p>Strong proficiency in Python and/or TypeScript/JavaScript</p><p>Experience with LLM APIs, prompt engineering, and agentic frameworks (e.g., LangChain, LlamaIndex, or custom orchestration)</p><p>Familiarity with vector databases and RAG architectures (Pinecone, Weaviate, pgvector, etc.)</p><p>Understanding of multi-agent systems, tool use, and function calling</p><p>Experience designing evaluation and testing strategies for non-deterministic AI outputs</p><p>Solid grasp of API design, async processing, and scalable backend architecture</p><p>Comfort working in a fast-moving, ambiguous, early-stage environment</p>

<p>The Key Responsibilities are: Design, develop, test, and maintain backend applications using Java and Spring Boot. Translate business and technical requirements into scalable software solutions. Participate throughout the software development lifecycle, including analysis, design, implementation, testing, deployment, and production support. Design and integrate REST APIs and microservices. Troubleshoot production issues, identify root causes, and implement sustainable solutions. Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code following engineering best practices. Perform code reviews and provide technical guidance to other team members. Contribute to system design, architecture, and technical decision-making. Improve application performance, reliability, security, and maintainability. Create and maintain technical documentation in Confluence. Collaborate with product owners, QA engineers, and other technical teams in an Agile environment. Participate in Scrum ceremonies and technical discussions.</p><p><strong>Desired Candidate Profile</strong></p><p>Bacheloru2019s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or a related field. Minimum 5u20136 years of professional software development experience, primarily using Java. Strong experience with Java, Spring Boot, and the Spring ecosystem. Solid understanding of object-oriented programming, design principles, and common design patterns. Experience designing and developing REST APIs and microservices. Good experience with Maven and Git-based development workflows. Strong knowledge of relational databases, SQL, and data-access technologies such as JPA/Hibernate. Experience writing unit and integration tests using tools such as JUnit and Mockito. Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and modern software delivery practices. Strong debugging, problem-solving, and root-cause analysis skills. Experience with Agile software development practices. Ability to independently own technical tasks and guide less-experienced engineers. Excellent verbal and written English communication skills. Availability to work during the core working hours of 12:00 PM to 9:00 PM Lebanon time .</p><p>Preferred Qualifications Experience with AWS services and cloud-based application development. Working knowledge of Python. Experience with event-driven systems, messaging technologies, or distributed systems. Familiarity with Docker and containerized applications. Experience with application monitoring, logging, and performance optimization. Basic front-end experience with React is a plus but not required.</p>

<h2 class="h5">Job description</h2> <div class="t-break" data-jb-field="description"> Job Description<br><p><strong>About the Role</strong></p><br><p>We're looking for an AI Engineer to design, build, and scale the systems that power our AI-driven product. You'll work at the intersection of large language models, multi-agent systems, and production software, turning cutting-edge AI capabilities into reliable, user-facing experiences.</p><br><p><strong>What You'll Do</strong></p><br><ul><li>Design and implement LLM-powered pipelines, including prompt engineering, context management, and response synthesis</li><li>Build and optimize multi-agent orchestration systems where AI components interact, reason, and produce coherent outputs</li><li>Develop and maintain integrations with foundation model APIs (Anthropic, OpenAI, and others), managing latency, cost, and reliability at scale</li><li>Implement retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and memory systems for persistent, context-aware behavior</li><li>Partner with the Evaluation/QA Engineer to build frameworks that measure output quality, coherence, and factual grounding</li><li>Collaborate with product and design to translate workflows into robust technical experiences</li><li>Ship production features across the stack, from the model layer to the application</li></ul><p>Monitor, debug, and improve system performance, token efficiency, and guardrails</p><br><br>Qualifications<br><ul><li>3+ years of software engineering experience, with hands-on work building LLM-powered applications</li><li>Strong proficiency in Python and/or TypeScript/JavaScript</li><li>Experience with LLM APIs, prompt engineering, and agentic frameworks (e.g., LangChain, LlamaIndex, or custom orchestration)</li><li>Familiarity with vector databases and RAG architectures (Pinecone, Weaviate, pgvector, etc.)</li><li>Understanding of multi-agent systems, tool use, and function calling</li><li>Experience designing evaluation and testing strategies for non-deterministic AI outputs</li><li>Solid grasp of API design, async processing, and scalable backend architecture</li><li>Comfort working in a fast-moving, ambiguous, early-stage environment</li></ul><br>Additional Information<br><ul><li>Experience with real-time streaming (WebSockets, SSE) for conversational interfaces</li><li>Background in fine-tuning, model distillation, or inference optimization</li><li>Familiarity with cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP/Azure) and CI/CD</li><li>Contributions to open-source AI projects</li></ul><br><br> </div>

<p><h4>Aspire Software company overview</h4> <p>Aspire Software operates and manages wholly owned software companies, providing mission-critical solutions across multiple verticals. By implementing industry best practices, Aspire delivers a time sensitive integration process, and the operation of a decentralized model has allowed it to become a hub for creating rapid growth by reinvesting in its portfolio.</p> <h4>About the job</h4> <p>This role sits at the center of that buildout. You’ll ship near-term product features while helping us make the right architectural decisions for what’s coming. We need someone who can execute and see around corners, someone who understands both the product experience and the platform mechanics underneath it.</p> <h4>Key responsibilities</h4> <ul> <li>Build and ship AI features using our PHP/MySQL/React/Node stack with OpenAI API integration.</li> <li>Extend Astro Core chatbot capabilities with new read/write actions, graph generation, and analysis outputs.</li> <li>Help improve the external MCP connector schema, authentication, and capability surface.</li> <li>Own prompt engineering for product features: design, test, iterate, and document prompts as first-class product artifacts.</li> <li>Build the token metering and usage tracking layer per feature, per customer, per tier.</li> <li>Design and implement guardrails, access controls, and rate limiting across the Astro AI platform layer.</li> <li>Contribute to agent architecture decisions: tool access, memory design, token pool isolation, training data boundaries.</li> <li>Monitor AI feature performance in production latency, cost, output quality, failure modes and drive improvements.</li> <li>Stay current on the AI tooling landscape and bring concrete recommendations to the team.</li> </ul> <h4>Requirements</h4> <strong>AI product development</strong> <ul> <li>Hands-on experience integrating LLM APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic, or similar) into production applications used by real customers.</li> <li>Prompt engineering fluency: system prompts, few-shot examples, structured outputs, tool/function calling, chain-of-thought patterns.</li> <li>Understanding of token economics: cost per call, context management, model selection tradeoffs across feature types.</li> <li>Experience building quality evaluation and output validation frameworks around AI features.</li> <li>Awareness of AI-specific risks: hallucination, prompt injection, data leakage, output inconsistency.</li> </ul> <strong>Platform & architecture thinking</strong> <ul> <li>Experience designing or contributing to metered usage systems — API rate limiting, consumption tracking, billing integration.</li> <li>Familiarity with designing MCP (Model Context Protocol) — understanding of how LLM-native integrations differ from traditional REST.</li> <li>Ability to reason about multi-tenant access controls: how AI features should behave differently across customer tiers.</li> <li>Understanding of agent architecture patterns: tool registries, memory types, token pool management, task delegation.</li> </ul> <strong>Core stack</strong> <ul> <li>React and Node: able to build frontend components that surface AI features, including data visualizations.</li> <li>Solid PHP development experience — comfortable extending a production codebase, not just greenfield.</li> <li>MySQL: schema design, query optimization, and data modeling for AI feature state and usage tracking.</li> <li>Typescript: used on the backend of the MCP layer.</li> </ul> <p>Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering or a related field.</p> <p>3+ years of experience in consulting, digital transformation, enterprise software implementation, or AI-related projects.</p> <p>Strong understanding of artificial intelligence, machine learning, generative AI, and automation concepts.</p> <p>Strong presentation, communication, and stakeholder management skills.</p> <p>Experience working directly with customers and senior business stakeholders.</p> <p>Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.</p></p><p></p>

<p>Role Overview Help building, operating, and continuously improving the platforms and infrastructure that support our customers and consulting engagements on AWS. You will work closely with engineering teams to improve software delivery, infrastructure reliability, security, observability, scalability, and developer experience. The role combines AWS cloud infrastructure, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, container orchestration, automation, monitoring, and operational excellence. We are looking for someone who is comfortable taking ownership, solving problems systematically, automating repetitive work, and collaborating across engineering teams. Tasks &amp; Responsibilities Design, build, operate, and continuously improve infrastructure and platform services on AWS. Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code to ensure consistent, repeatable, and auditable infrastructure provisioning. Build and improve CI/CD pipelines to enable reliable, secure, and efficient software delivery. Deploy and operate containerized applications using container orchestration platforms, primarily Amazon ECS. Build and maintain container-based deployment workflows using technologies such as Docker and Amazon ECR. Automate infrastructure provisioning, application deployments, configuration, and operational processes. Implement and maintain monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability solutions. Improve platform reliability, availability, scalability, performance, and resilience. Support engineering teams in deploying, operating, and troubleshooting applications running on AWS. Participate in incident response, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement activities. Identify operational risks, bottlenecks, and repetitive manual processes and propose improvements. Apply security best practices across AWS infrastructure, containerized workloads, CI/CD pipelines, secrets, access control, networking, and platform services. Contribute to AWS cost visibility, resource optimization, and cloud efficiency. Maintain clear technical documentation, operational procedures, runbooks, and architecture documentation. Collaborate with software engineers, architects, security teams, and other stakeholders to improve engineering standards and practices. Evaluate tools and technologies based on reliability, maintainability, security, scalability, operational complexity, and business value. Competencies Strong understanding of AWS cloud infrastructure and modern infrastructure engineering practices. Hands-on experience designing, deploying, or operating workloads on AWS. Experience with container technologies and container orchestration platforms, particularly Amazon ECS. Experience with Docker and containerized application delivery. Understanding of core AWS services and concepts including compute, networking, storage, identity and access management, security, monitoring, and highly available architectures. Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, AWS CDK, or similar approaches. Understanding of CI/CD concepts and experience building or maintaining automated software delivery pipelines. Experience with scripting or programming for automation using languages such as Python, Bash, Go, or similar. Strong understanding of Linux systems, networking, DNS, load balancing, TLS, and common infrastructure concepts. Experience with monitoring, logging, metrics, alerting, and observability practices. Understanding of security principles including AWS IAM, secrets management, access control, vulnerability management, and secure infrastructure configuration. Ability to troubleshoot technical and operational problems across applications, infrastructure, networking, containers, and AWS services. Strong ownership mindset and ability to work collaboratively with engineering teams. Ability to communicate technical concepts clearly and document systems and processes effectively. Tools &amp; Certifications Experience with Amazon ECS and AWS-native container platforms. Familiarity with Kubernetes or Amazon EKS. Experience with GitOps practices and modern deployment automation. Experience with reliability engineering, SRE practices, SLIs, SLOs, and incident management. Experience with AWS cost management, optimization, and FinOps practices. Familiarity with AWS security services, governance controls, and security best practices. Experience building internal developer platforms or improving developer experience. Familiarity with databases, messaging platforms, caching systems, and distributed-system components. Knowledge of AWS Well-Architected principles and cloud architecture best practices.</p><p><strong>Desired Candidate Profile</strong></p><p>Previous experience in a similar role Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field Fluent in speaking &amp; writing, Arabic &amp; English</p>

<section><p class="heading jdMain">Job Description</p><p class="heading">Roles &amp; Responsibilities</p><div class="paragraph"><p>The IC is to provide specialized technical expertise in the implementation, administration, monitoring, and optimization of cloud infrastructure and DevOps platforms within Microsoft Azure. The IC will be responsible for ensuring the availability, security, scalability, and performance of enterprise systems, managing CI/CD pipelines, and writing Infrastructure as Code (IaC). Crucially, the IC will work in close coordination with the internal development team to analyze existing on-premises application architectures, gather deployment requirements, and translate current on-premises VM resource metrics into optimized, cloud-native Azure resource allocations. The consultant will also execute the tactical technical migration of legacy systems from an on-premises Proxmox virtualization environment to the Microsoft Azure cloud platform.</p><p><strong>Work Location</strong> UN-House ESCWA / Hybrid</p><p><strong>Expected duration</strong> 6 months</p><p><strong>Duties and Responsibilities</strong></p><p><strong>Background:</strong> The Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) forms part of the United Nations Secretariat and, like the other regional commissions, operates under the supervision of the United Nations Economic and Social Council. ESCWA comprises 21 Arab countries in Western Asia and North Africa. ESCWA provides a framework for the formulation and harmonization of sectoral policies for member countries, a platform for congress and coordination, a home for expertise and knowledge, and an information observatory. ESCWA activities are coordinated with the divisions and main offices of the Headquarters of the United Nations, specialized agencies, and international and regional organizations, including the League of Arab States and its subsidiary bodies, and the Gulf Cooperation Council.</p><p>This position is located in the Decision-Support and Data Science Division (DSDSD). The Decision-Support and Data Science Division is part of ESCWA's broader modernization and innovation efforts, providing advanced analytics, secure digital platforms, and decision-support services within ESCWA, other UN entities, and Member States. Aligned with the UN 2.0 agenda and grounded in operational resilience, DSDS leverages cutting-edge hybrid infrastructure, scalable cloud tech frameworks, and modern deployment models to ensure high availability, security, and performance for critical digital assets. Its core functions include enterprise cloud environment management, infrastructure automation, continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) optimization, and the migration of legacy on-premises platforms to advanced public cloud ecosystems. Through these capabilities, DSDS maintains reliable, enterprise-grade digital decision-support tools that empower evidence-based decision-making and foster organizational efficiency across the region.</p><p>Under the supervision of the Chief of the Decision-Support and Data Science Division and in close collaboration with the infrastructure and digital development teams, the Individual Contractor (IC) will support the implementation, automation, secure hosting, and optimization of core cloud systems and scalable technology environments to support strategic initiative delivery.</p><p><strong>Duties and responsibilities:</strong> The Cloud Systems and DevOps Analyst will perform the following tasks:</p><ul><li><strong>Cloud Infrastructure Implementation &amp; Administration:</strong><ul><li>Deploy, manage, and optimize enterprise-scale cloud resources within Microsoft Azure, ensuring optimal performance, governance, and resource utilization.</li><li>Administer hybrid virtualization architectures, transitioning existing virtual machines and workloads out of the on-premises Proxmox environment into designated Azure landing zones.</li><li>Maintain and configure base operating systems across enterprise Windows Server and Linux environments hosted in the cloud.</li></ul></li><li><strong>DevOps Platform Engineering &amp; Infrastructure as Code (IaC):</strong><ul><li>Design, build, and maintain automated CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps to support rapid, secure, and reliable software delivery cycles.</li><li>Author, review, and maintain infrastructure state using Infrastructure as Code tools, specifically Terraform, Bicep, and ARM Templates.</li><li>Develop automated operational scripts utilizing PowerShell to streamline recurring system administration and provisioning tasks.</li></ul></li><li><strong>Application Lifecycle &amp; Developer Collaboration:</strong><ul><li>Work closely with the development team to audit existing on-premises hosted applications and gather technical requirements for upcoming Azure cloud deployments.</li><li>Analyze the resource utilization and architectural dependencies of applications currently running on on-premises virtual machines to determine the optimal Azure cloud topology.</li><li>Evaluate and recommend whether applications should be migrated as traditional Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) virtual machines or refactored into cloud-native Azure resources (such as App Services, Azure SQL, or container instances) to maximize scalability and cost-efficiency.</li><li>Provide technical guidance to developers regarding cloud deployment pathways, access control configurations, and performance optimization on Azure.</li></ul></li><li><strong>Cloud Security, Identity, &amp; Monitoring:</strong><ul><li>Manage cloud governance, object lifecycles, and secure identity mapping through Azure Active Directory (Azure AD / Entra ID).</li><li>Configure comprehensive observability setups using Azure Monitor and Log Analytics to establish proactive system alerts, log analysis, and performance tracking.</li><li>Implement infrastructure hardening, security controls, and operational best practices across all deployed cloud frameworks.</li></ul></li></ul></div></section><section><p class="heading">Desired Candidate Profile</p><p class="paragraph"></p><ul><li>A bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, Cloud Engineering, System Administration, or related technical fields is required. All candidates must submit a copy of the required educational degree. Incomplete applications will not be reviewed.</li><li>A minimum of 5 years of professional experience in system administration, IT infrastructure operations, or cloud platforms architecture is required.</li><li>Demonstrated hands-on experience deploying, administering, and monitoring production cloud environments using Microsoft Azure is required.</li><li>Proven experience building automated CI/CD pipelines and developing infrastructure deployments utilizing Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform, Bicep, or ARM Templates) is required.</li><li>Proven experience collaborating directly with software development teams to extract application performance metrics, translate software requirements into infrastructure specifications, and plan application modernization strategies is required.</li><li>Solid technical proficiency in scripting with PowerShell and configuring core infrastructure services, including Windows Server, Linux, and Azure Active Directory, is required.</li><li>Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills are required.</li><li>Practical technical experience supporting or executing system migrations from on-premises hypervisors (specifically Proxmox VE or VMware) to public cloud environments (Microsoft Azure) is highly desirable.</li><li>Official Microsoft certifications (e.g., Azure Administrator Associate, Azure DevOps Engineer Expert, or Azure Solutions Architect Expert) are highly desirable.</li><li>Fluency in English is required and knowledge of Arabic is desirable.</li></ul><p></p></section>

<p><h4>Aspire Software company overview</h4> <p>Aspire Software is looking for an intermediate full-stack developer to join our team in Lebanon.<br> Aspire Software operates and manages wholly owned software companies, providing mission-critical solutions across multiple verticals. By implementing industry best practices, Aspire delivers a time sensitive integration process, and the operation of a decentralized model has allowed it to become a hub for creating rapid growth by reinvesting in its portfolio.</p> <h4>Role overview</h4> <p>As an intermediate full stack developer, you’ll play a role in the ongoing development of our world-class cloud platform, and be comfortable with both front and back end programming. From understanding the initial set of customer requirements to deploying the final product, you’ll have your hands and mind in all aspects of the implementation. You’ll be responsible for developing and designing front end web architecture and back end systems, ensuring the responsiveness of applications and working alongside graphic designers for web design features, among other duties. At times, you may even find yourself presenting a solution to an external customer or to the entire company looking for feedback.</p> <h4>Outcomes and key responsibilities</h4> <ul> <li><strong>Write quality code:</strong> Build well-designed, testable, efficient, secure code. Follow departmental guidelines for coding standards and participate in code reviews.</li> <li><strong>Test:</strong> Write unit tests, service level and UI tests with help as needed from senior teammates. Find and execute test plans and test cases, read and validate automation results.</li> <li><strong>Contribute to software design:</strong> Share ideas and participate in product, UI, architectural design discussions. Design basic functions with an awareness of overall service architecture, avoiding duplication across codebases and interface-breaking changes.</li> <li><strong>Leverage AI-powered coding assistants:</strong> Accelerate software development, including code generation, debugging, and refactoring.</li> <li><strong>Knowledge sharing:</strong> Foster a culture of documentation and knowledge sharing within the team and with business stakeholders; actively demonstrate an openness to share and receive information, updates and feedback.</li> </ul> <h4>Measures of performance: how you know you’re doing well</h4> <ul> <li><strong>Process execution:</strong> Every project, automation task, and incident is executed well and completely. We ensure that all work in our system is done to the best of our ability given our knowledge, tooling, and experience.</li> <li><strong>Customer satisfaction:</strong> A desire to ensure a high quality of service to provide the best customer experience, by continually finding the next problem to solve, and solving it well.</li> <li><strong>Effective cooperation:</strong> Collaborate closely with product management and site reliability teams to consistently meet and surpass customer expectations for quality and reliability.</li> </ul> <h4>Requirements</h4> <h5>Experience</h5> <ul> <li>Exposure to computer science fundamentals in object-oriented design.</li> <li>Experience developing software services and an understanding of design for scalability, performance and reliability.</li> <li>Familiarity with professional software engineering practices across the entire development life cycle; coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing.</li> <li>Proficiency in the complete SDLC from analysis to deployment.</li> <li>Working proficiency and communication skills in verbal and written English.</li> <li>Proficiency in modern web programming including VueJS, NodeJS, JQuery.</li> <li>Proficiency in modern event based microservice architecture, CQRS and websockets.</li> <li>Experience working in cloud services including Google, Azure or AWS.</li> </ul> <h5>Competencies</h5> <ul> <li>Excellent written and verbal communication capability, with an aptitude for breaking down technical topics into easy to understand concepts.</li> <li>An eye for details and specifics, you don’t shy away from data or information; and you relish an opportunity to set things straight or organize.</li> <li>Independent problem solving capabilities, and analytical skills. You don’t give up when you don’t know the answer immediately and you're humble enough to ask for help whenever you need it.</li> </ul> <h4>Technologies - what you’ll be using</h4> <ul> <li>Apache</li> <li>Cypress</li> <li>Docker</li> <li>GCP</li> <li>Git</li> <li>Gemini AI and Co-pilot</li> <li>Java</li> <li>Jira</li> <li>Linux</li> <li>PostgreSQL</li> <li>VueJS</li> <li>VS Code</li> </ul></p><p></p>

<p><br></p><p>As an Intermediate Full Stack Developer, you ll play a role in the ongoing development of our world-class cloud platform, and be comfortable with both front and back end programming. From understanding the initial set of customer requirements to deploying the final product, you ll have your hands and mind in all aspects of the implementation. You ll be responsible for developing and designing front end web architecture and back end systems, ensuring the responsiveness of applications and working alongside graphic designers for web design features, among other duties. At times, you may even find yourself presenting a solution to an external customer or to the entire company looking for feedback.</p><h2>Outcomes and Key Responsibilities</h2><ul><li><strong>Write Quality Code</strong>: Build well-designed, testable, efficient, secure code. Follow departmental guidelines for coding standards and participate in code reviews.</li><li><strong>Test</strong>: Write unit tests, service level and UI tests with help as needed from senior teammates. Find and execute test plans and test cases, read and validate automation results.</li><li><strong>Contribute to Software Design</strong>: Share ideas &amp; participate in product, UI, architectural design discussions. Design basic functions with an awareness of overall service architecture, avoiding duplication across codebases and interface-breaking changes. Leverage AI-powered coding assistants to accelerate software development, including code generation, debugging, and refactoring.</li><li><strong>Knowledge Sharing</strong>: Foster a culture of documentation and knowledge sharing within the team and with business stakeholders; actively demonstrate an openness to share and receive information, updates and feedback.</li></ul><h2>Measures of Performance: How You Know You re Doing Well</h2><ul><li><strong>Process Execution</strong>: Every project, automation task, and incident is executed well and completely. We ensure that all work in our system is done to the best of our ability given our knowledge, tooling, and experience.</li><li><strong>Customer Satisfaction</strong>: A desire to ensure a high quality of service to provide the best customer experience, by continually finding the next problem to solve, and solving it well.</li><li><strong>Effective Cooperation</strong>: Collaborate closely with Product Management and Site Reliability teams to consistently meet and surpass customer expectations for quality and reliability.</li></ul><h2>Experience</h2><ul><li>Exposure to Computer Science fundamentals in object-oriented design.</li><li>Experience developing software services and an understanding of design for scalability, performance and reliability.</li><li>Familiarity with professional software engineering practices across the entire development life cycle; coding standards, code reviews, source control management build processes, testing.</li><li>Proficiency in the complete SDLC from Analysis to Deployment.</li><li>Working proficiency and communication skills in verbal and written English.</li><li>Proficiency in modern web programming including VueJS, NodeJS, JQuery.</li><li>Proficiency in modern event based microservice architecture, CQRS and websockets</li><li>Experience working in Cloud Services including Google, Azure or AWS</li></ul><h2>Competencies</h2><ul><li>Excellent written and verbal communication capability, with an aptitude for breaking down technical topics into easy to understand concepts.</li><li>An eye for details and specifics, you don t shy away from data or information; and you relish an opportunity to set things straight or organize.</li><li>Independent problem solving capabilities, and analytical skills. You don t give up when you don t know the answer immediately and you're humble enough to ask for help whenever you need it.</li></ul><h2><br></h2><p><strong>Desired Candidate Profile</strong></p><ul><li>Exposure to Computer Science fundamentals in object-oriented design.</li><li>Experience developing software services and an understanding of design for scalability, performance and reliability.</li><li>Familiarity with professional software engineering practices across the entire development life cycle; coding standards, code reviews, source control management build processes, testing.</li><li>Proficiency in the complete SDLC from Analysis to Deployment.</li><li>Working proficiency and communication skills in verbal and written English.</li><li>Proficiency in modern web programming including VueJS, NodeJS, JQuery.</li><li>Proficiency in modern event based microservice architecture, CQRS and websockets</li><li>Experience working in Cloud Services including Google, Azure or AWS</li><li>Excellent written and verbal communication capability, with an aptitude for breaking down technical topics into easy to understand concepts.</li><li>An eye for details and specifics, you don t shy away from data or information; and you relish an opportunity to set things straight or organize.</li><li>Independent problem solving capabilities, and analytical skills. You don t give up when you don t know the answer immediately and you're humble enough to ask for help whenever you need it.</li></ul>

<h2 class="h5">Job description</h2> <div class="t-break" data-jb-field="description"> <span>Aspire Software is looking for a AI Developer to join our team in Lebanon.<br> Here is a little window into our company: Aspire Software operates and manages wholly owned software companies, providing mission-critical solutions across multiple verticals.<br> By implementing industry best practices, Aspire delivers a time sensitive integration process, and the operation of a decentralized model has allowed it to become a hub for creating rapid growth by reinvesting in its portfolio.<br> About the job: This role sits at the center of that buildout.<br> You’ll ship near-term product features while helping us make the right architectural decisions for what’s coming.<br> We need someone who can execute and see around corners someone who understands both the product experience and the platform mechanics underneath it.<br> Key Responsibilities Build and ship AI features within the Ad Orbit product using our PHP/MySQL/React/Node stack with OpenAI API integration.<br> Extend Astro Core chatbot capabilities new read/write actions, graph generation, analysis outputs.<br> Help improve the external MCP connector schema, authentication, capability surface.<br> Own prompt engineering for product features: design, test, iterate, and document prompts as first-class product artifacts.<br> Build the token metering and usage tracking layer per-feature, per-customer, per-tier.<br> Design and implement guardrails, access controls, and rate limiting across the Astro AI platform layer.<br> Contribute to agent architecture decisions: tool access, memory design, token pool isolation, training data boundaries.<br> Monitor AI feature performance in production latency, cost, output quality, failure modes and drive improvements.<br> Stay current on the AI tooling landscape and bring concrete recommendations to the team.<br> AI Product Development Hands-on experience integrating LLM APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic, or similar) into production applications used by real customers.<br> Prompt engineering fluency: system prompts, few-shot examples, structured outputs, tool/function calling, chain-of-thought patterns.<br> Understanding of token economics: cost per call, context management, model selection tradeoffs across feature types.<br> Experience building quality evaluation and output validation frameworks around AI features.<br> Awareness of AI-specific risks: hallucination, prompt injection, data leakage, output inconsistency.<br> Platform &amp; Architecture Thinking Experience designing or contributing to metered usage systems — API rate limiting, consumption tracking, billing integration.<br> Familiarity with designing MCP (Model Context Protocol) — understanding of how LLM-native integrations differ from traditional REST.<br> Ability to reason about multi-tenant access controls: how AI features should behave differently across customer tiers.<br> Understanding of agent architecture patterns: tool registries, memory types, token pool management, task delegation.<br> Core Stack React and Node: able to build frontend components that surface AI features, including data visualizations.<br> Solid PHP development experience — comfortable extending a production codebase, not just greenfield.<br> MySQL: schema design, query optimization, and data modeling for AI feature state and usage tracking.<br> Typescript: used on the backend of the MCP layerBachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, Engineering or a related field.<br> 3+ years of experience in consulting, digital transformation, enterprise software implementation, or AI-related projects.<br> Strong understanding of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Generative AI, and automation concepts.<br> Strong presentation, communication, and stakeholder management skills.<br> Experience working directly with customers and senior business stakeholders.<br> Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.<br></span> </div>

<h2 class="h5">Job description</h2> <div class="t-break" data-jb-field="description"> Result of Service<br>The IC will provide specialized technical expertise in the implementation, administration, monitoring, and optimization of cloud infrastructure and DevOps platforms within Microsoft Azure. The IC will be responsible for ensuring the availability, security, scalability, and performance of enterprise systems, managing CI/CD pipelines, and writing Infrastructure as Code (IaC). Crucially, the IC will work in close coordination with the internal development team to analyze existing on-premises application architectures, gather deployment requirements, and translate current on-premises VM resource metrics into optimized, cloud-native Azure resource allocations. The IC will also execute the tactical technical migration of legacy systems from an on-premises Proxmox virtualization environment to the Microsoft Azure cloud platform.<br> Work Location<br>UN-House ESCWA<br> Expected duration<br>6 months<br> Duties and Responsibilities<br>Background: The Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) forms part of the United Nations Secretariat and, like the other regional commissions, operates under the supervision of the United Nations Economic and Social Council. ESCWA comprises 21 Arab countries in Western Asia and North Africa. ESCWA provides a framework for the formulation and harmonization of sectoral policies for member countries, a platform for congress and coordination, a home for expertise and knowledge, and an information observatory. ESCWA activities are coordinated with the divisions and main offices of the Headquarters of the United Nations, specialized agencies, and international and regional organizations, including the League of Arab States and its subsidiary bodies, and the Gulf Cooperation Council. This position is located in the Decision-Support and Data Science Division (DSDSD). The Decision-Support and Data Science Division is part of ESCWA's broader modernization and innovation efforts, providing advanced analytics, secure digital platforms, and decision-support services within ESCWA, other UN entities, and Member States. Aligned with the UN 2.0 agenda and grounded in operational resilience, DSDS leverages cutting-edge hybrid infrastructure, scalable cloud tech frameworks, and modern deployment models to ensure high availability, security, and performance for critical digital assets. Its core functions include enterprise cloud environment management, infrastructure automation, continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) optimization, and the migration of legacy on-premises platforms to advanced public cloud ecosystems. Through these capabilities, DSDS maintains reliable, enterprise-grade digital decision-support tools that empower evidence-based decision-making and foster organizational efficiency across the region. Under the supervision of the Chief of the Decision-Support and Data Science Division and in close collaboration with the infrastructure and digital development teams, the Individual Contractor (IC) will support the implementation, automation, secure hosting, and optimization of core cloud systems and scalable technology environments to support strategic initiative delivery. Duties and responsibilities: Within delegated authority, the IC will be responsible for independently performing the following: - Cloud Infrastructure Implementation &amp; Administration: o Deploy, manage, and optimize enterprise-scale cloud resources within Microsoft Azure, ensuring optimal performance, governance, and resource utilization. o Administer hybrid virtualization architectures, transitioning existing virtual machines and workloads out of the on-premises Proxmox environment into designated Azure landing zones. o Maintain and configure base operating systems across enterprise Windows Server and Linux environments hosted in the cloud. - DevOps Platform Engineering &amp; Infrastructure as Code (IaC): o Design, build, and maintain automated CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps to support rapid, secure, and reliable software delivery cycles. o Author, review, and maintain infrastructure state using Infrastructure as Code tools, specifically Terraform, Bicep, and ARM Templates. o Develop automated operational scripts utilizing PowerShell to streamline recurring system administration and provisioning tasks. - Application Lifecycle &amp; Developer Collaboration: o Work closely with the development team to audit existing on-premises hosted applications and gather technical requirements for upcoming Azure cloud deployments. o Analyze the resource utilization and architectural dependencies of applications currently running on on-premises virtual machines to determine the optimal Azure cloud topology. o Evaluate and recommend whether applications should be migrated as traditional Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) virtual machines or refactored into cloud-native Azure resources (such as App Services, Azure SQL, or container instances) to maximize scalability and cost-efficiency. o Provide technical guidance to developers regarding cloud deployment pathways, access control configurations, and performance optimization on Azure. - Cloud Security, Identity, &amp; Monitoring: o Manage cloud governance, object lifecycles, and secure identity mapping through Azure Active Directory (Azure AD / Entra ID). o Configure comprehensive observability setups using Azure Monitor and Log Analytics to establish proactive system alerts, log analysis, and performance tracking. o Implement infrastructure hardening, security controls, and operational best practices across all deployed cloud frameworks.<br> Qualifications/special skills<br>A bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, Cloud Engineering, System Administration, or related technical fields is required. All candidates must submit a copy of the required educational degree. Incomplete applications will not be reviewed. A minimum of 3 years of professional experience in system administration, IT infrastructure operations, or cloud platforms architecture is required. Demonstrated hands-on experience deploying, administering, and monitoring production cloud environments using Microsoft Azure is required. Proven experience building automated CI/CD pipelines and developing infrastructure deployments utilizing Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform, Bicep, or ARM Templates) is required. Proven experience collaborating directly with software development teams to extract application performance metrics, translate software requirements into infrastructure specifications, and plan application modernization strategies is required. Solid technical proficiency in scripting with PowerShell and configuring core infrastructure services, including Windows Server, Linux, and Azure Active Directory, is desirable. Practical technical experience supporting or executing system migrations from on-premises hypervisors (specifically Proxmox VE or VMware) to public cloud environments (Microsoft Azure) is highly desirable. Official Microsoft certifications (e.g., Azure Administrator Associate, Azure DevOps Engineer Expert, or Azure Solutions Architect Expert) are highly desirable.<br> Languages<br>English and French are the working languages of the United Nations Secretariat; and Arabic is a working language of ESCWA. For this position, fluency in English is required and knowledge of Arabic is desirable. Note: “Fluency” equals a rating of ‘fluent’ in all four areas (speak, read, write, and understand) and “Knowledge of” equals a rating of ‘confident’ in two of the four areas.<br> Additional Information<br>Recruitment for this position is on a local basis. The incumbent is required to have the legal right to live and work in the specified working location.<br> No Fee<br>THE UNITED NATIONS DOES NOT CHARGE A FEE AT ANY STAGE OF THE RECRUITMENT PROCESS (APPLICATION, INTERVIEW MEETING, PROCESSING, OR TRAINING). THE UNITED NATIONS DOES NOT CONCERN ITSELF WITH INFORMATION ON APPLICANTS’ BANK ACCOUNTS.<br><br><br> </div>