ET Consultant: DevOps Engineer

Job #: req24478

Organization: World Bank

Sector: Information Technology

Grade: EC2

Term Duration: 1 year 0 months

Recruitment Type: Local Recruitment

Location: Sofia,Bulgaria

Required Language(s): English

Preferred Language(s): English

Closing Date: 10/13/2023 (MM/DD/YYYY) at 11:59pm UTC

Description

Do you want to build a career that is truly worthwhile? Working at the World Bank Group provides a unique opportunity for you to help our clients solve their greatest development challenges. The World Bank Group is one of the largest sources of funding and knowledge for developing countries; a unique global partnership of five institutions dedicated to ending extreme poverty, increasing shared prosperity and promoting sustainable development. With 189 member countries and more than 120 offices worldwide, we work with public and private sector partners, investing in groundbreaking projects and using data, research, and technology to develop solutions to the most urgent global challenges. For more information, 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 E T Consultant (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, including Azure DevOps.
•  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

•  Master’s Degree with 5 years experience in Computer Engineering or relevant area or equivalent combination of education and experience.
•  Experience with Unix/Linux.
•  Experience with Azure/AWS.
•  Experience with Azure DevOps, CI/CD pipelines.
•  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.

World Bank Group Core Competencies

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.

Learn more about working at the World Bank and IFC, including our values and inspiring stories.

Note: The selected candidate will be offered a one-year appointment, renewable at the discretion of the World Bank Group, and subject to a lifetime maximum ET appointment of three years. If an ET appointment ends before a full year, it is considered as a full year toward the lifetime maximum. Former and current ET staff who have completed all or any portion of their third-year ET appointment are not eligible for future ET appointments.