Cloud Systems Unix Engineer

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Organization: World Bank

Sector: Information Technology

Grade: GE

Term Duration: 3 years 0 months

Recruitment Type: Local Recruitment

Location: Washington, DC,United States

Required Language(s): English

Closing Date: 4/22/2021 (MM/DD/YYYY) at 11:59pm UTC

Description

About the World Bank Group:

Established in 1944, the World Bank Group (WBG) is one of the largest sources of funding and knowledge for developing countries; a unique global partnership of five institutions: the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD), the International Development Association (IDA), the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), and the International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID). With 189 member countries and more than 120 offices worldwide, the WBG works 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.

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.

Position is part of the Information Technology Systems Management infrastructure team.

Duties and Accountabilities:

•Design, implement and operate scalable, highly available, and fault tolerant UNIX systems in the Cloud and on-prem.

•Unix Server administration in a large enterprise environment.

•Automate tasks on-prem and in the cloud using high-level programing language such as Python, Ruby or Java.

•Migrate existing on-premises workloads to the Cloud.

•Secure and control the flow of data to and from the Cloud.

•Select the appropriate Cloud service based on compute, data, or security requirements.

•Define appropriate use of Cloud operational best practices.

•Optimize Cloud usage costs and implement operational cost control mechanisms.

Selection Criteria

•Bachelor’s Degree with a minimum of 4 years relevant experience in AWS or Azure Cloud administration or DevOps and Unix administration and Master's degree with 2 years relevant experience.

•Outstanding analytical and problem-solving skills, including the ability to define problems and analyze the root cause.

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

•Experience developing code in at least one high-level programing language and in automation/testing via scripting/programing (e.g. Python, Ruby, Java, PowerShell).

•Hands-on experience designing and deploying enterprise-wide scalable operation in the cloud.

•Hands-on experience implementing systems that are highly available, scalable and self-healing in the cloud.

•Capabilities to provide best practices guidance on the architectural design across multiple applications, projects or the enterprise.