DevOps Engineer

Contract

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DevOps Engineer

Description

Do you want to build a career that is truly worthwhile? Working at the World Bank provides a unique opportunity for you to help our clients solve their greatest development challenges. The World Bank consists of two entities – the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) and the International Development Association (IDA). It is a global development cooperative owned by 189 member countries. As the largest development bank in the world, the World Bank provides loans, guarantees, risk management products, and advisory services to middle-income and creditworthy low-income countries, and coordinates responses to regional and global challenges. Visit www.worldbank.org.

ITS Vice Presidency Context:

Information and Technology Solutions (ITS) enables the WBG to achieve its mission of ending extreme poverty and promote shared prosperity in a sustainable way by delivering transformative information and technologies to its staff working in over 150 locations.

Our vision is to transform how the Bank Group accomplishes its mission through information and technology. In this fast-paced, ever-changing world, the formulation and implementation of the ITS strategy is an ongoing, iterative process of learning and adaptation developed through extensive consultations with business partners throughout the World Bank Group.

ITS shapes its strategy in response to changing business priorities and leverages new technologies to achieve three high-level business outcomes: business enablement, by providing Bank Group units with innovative digital tools and technologies to transform how they deliver value for their clients; empowerment & effectiveness, by ensuring that all Bank Group staff are connected, able to find information, and productive to accelerate the delivery of development solutions globally; and resilience, by equipping the Bank Group to provide risk-based cybersecurity and robust data protection for a global network and a growing cloud platform.

Implementation of the strategy is guided by three core principles. The first is to deliver solutions for business partners that are customer-centric, innovative, and transformative. The second is to provide the Bank Group with value for money with selective and standard technologies. The third principle is to excel at the basics by providing a high performing, robust, and resilient IT environment for the organization.

The ITS Enterprise Services unit, provides a wide range of technical services: data centers, system administration, database, middleware, cloud, enterprise monitoring and identity and access management.

The DevOps Engineer position is within ITSIA team which builds and operates a large, hybrid IT infrastructure, with thousands of servers, hundreds of databases, and petabytes of data, spanning colocation sites, AWS, and Azure Clouds. It utilizes modern, infrastructure as code tools like Chef, Terraform, Azure DevOps and Splunk.

ITSIA is growing its DevOps and Automation capabilities to act as a Center of Excellence for the World Bank Group. You will be working in an innovative, creative, and agile environment to develop new products and automate existing ones (infrastructure, processes, and systems). Additionally, you will help us to improve our customer experience.

We provide a meaningful, open, and collaborative environment. We have many interesting and challenging problems to solve, providing you an opportunity to develop your skills while contributing to the mission of the World Bank. We value teamwork, openness, curiosity, and persistence. We will ensure that you will receive training and knowledge sharing across the team.

Responsibilities:

•Work as part of a team to engineer, implement and operate scalable, highly available systems on-premises and in the Cloud.

•Write code for automation and integration of diverse systems.

•Automate day to day tasks and provide self-service tools for system support.

•Troubleshoot technical issues.

•Identify opportunities for innovation.

•Develop technical documentation and operational procedures.

•Enhance monitoring capabilities, logging systems and define metrics.

•Work with minimal supervision on multiple projects at a time.

Do you want to build a career that is truly worthwhile? Working at the World Bank provides a unique opportunity for you to help our clients solve their greatest development challenges. The World Bank consists of two entities – the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) and the International Development Association (IDA). It is a global development cooperative owned by 189 member countries. As the largest development bank in the world, the World Bank provides loans, guarantees, risk management products, and advisory services to middle-income and creditworthy low-income countries, and coordinates responses to regional and global challenges. Visit www.worldbank.org.

ITS Vice Presidency Context:

Information and Technology Solutions (ITS) enables the WBG to achieve its mission of ending extreme poverty and promote shared prosperity in a sustainable way by delivering transformative information and technologies to its staff working in over 150 locations.

Our vision is to transform how the Bank Group accomplishes its mission through information and technology. In this fast-paced, ever-changing world, the formulation and implementation of the ITS strategy is an ongoing, iterative process of learning and adaptation developed through extensive consultations with business partners throughout the World Bank Group.

ITS shapes its strategy in response to changing business priorities and leverages new technologies to achieve three high-level business outcomes: business enablement, by providing Bank Group units with innovative digital tools and technologies to transform how they deliver value for their clients; empowerment & effectiveness, by ensuring that all Bank Group staff are connected, able to find information, and productive to accelerate the delivery of development solutions globally; and resilience, by equipping the Bank Group to provide risk-based cybersecurity and robust data protection for a global network and a growing cloud platform.

Implementation of the strategy is guided by three core principles. The first is to deliver solutions for business partners that are customer-centric, innovative, and transformative. The second is to provide the Bank Group with value for money with selective and standard technologies. The third principle is to excel at the basics by providing a high performing, robust, and resilient IT environment for the organization.

The ITS Enterprise Services unit, provides a wide range of technical services: data centers, system administration, database, middleware, cloud, enterprise monitoring and identity and access management.

The DevOps Engineer position is within ITSIA team which builds and operates a large, hybrid IT infrastructure, with thousands of servers, hundreds of databases, and petabytes of data, spanning colocation sites, AWS, and Azure Clouds. It utilizes modern, infrastructure as code tools like Chef, Terraform, Azure DevOps and Splunk.

ITSIA is growing its DevOps and Automation capabilities to act as a Center of Excellence for the World Bank Group. You will be working in an innovative, creative, and agile environment to develop new products and automate existing ones (infrastructure, processes, and systems). Additionally, you will help us to improve our customer experience.

We provide a meaningful, open, and collaborative environment. We have many interesting and challenging problems to solve, providing you an opportunity to develop your skills while contributing to the mission of the World Bank. We value teamwork, openness, curiosity, and persistence. We will ensure that you will receive training and knowledge sharing across the team.

Responsibilities:

•Work as part of a team to engineer, implement and operate scalable, highly available systems on-premises and in the Cloud.

•Write code for automation and integration of diverse systems.

•Automate day to day tasks and provide self-service tools for system support.

•Troubleshoot technical issues.

•Identify opportunities for innovation.

•Develop technical documentation and operational procedures.

•Enhance monitoring capabilities, logging systems and define metrics.

•Work with minimal supervision on multiple projects at a time.

Selection Criteria

•Bachelor’s Degree with a minimum of 7 years relevant experience in Computer Engineering or relevant area or Master’s degree with a minimum of 5 years relevant experience.

•Experience with Unix/Linux.

•Experience with AWS/Azure.

•Experience developing code in AT LEAST ONE high-level programing language for automation/testing via scripting/programing (e.g., Python, Ruby, Java, PowerShell).

•Experience with AT LEAST ONE log aggregation tool (e.g., Splunk, ELK).

•Experience with open-source tools in a production environment.

•Self-starter with a track record in learning new technologies.

•Ability to grasp high level concepts to create technical solutions to meet business needs.

•Excellent interpersonal, problem-solving, communication and team skills, and ability to think innovatively.

Note:

“The selected person will be hired on three years renewable Term contract which can be extended based on business needs and performance.”

•Bachelor’s Degree with a minimum of 7 years relevant experience in Computer Engineering or relevant area or Master’s degree with a minimum of 5 years relevant experience.

•Experience with Unix/Linux.

•Experience with AWS/Azure.

•Experience developing code in AT LEAST ONE high-level programing language for automation/testing via scripting/programing (e.g., Python, Ruby, Java, PowerShell).

•Experience with AT LEAST ONE log aggregation tool (e.g., Splunk, ELK).

•Experience with open-source tools in a production environment.

•Self-starter with a track record in learning new technologies.

•Ability to grasp high level concepts to create technical solutions to meet business needs.

•Excellent interpersonal, problem-solving, communication and team skills, and ability to think innovatively.

Note:

“The selected person will be hired on three years renewable Term contract which can be extended based on business needs and performance.”

World Bank Group Core Competencies

The World Bank Group offers comprehensive benefits, including a retirement plan; medical, life and disability insurance; and paid leave, including parental leave, as well as reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities.

We are proud to be an equal opportunity and inclusive employer with a dedicated and committed workforce, and do not discriminate based on gender, gender identity, religion, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or disability.

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