Vacancy Notice INT04614

INTERPOL is the world’s largest international police organization, with 196 Member Countries. Created in 1923, it
facilitates cross-border police co-operation, and supports and assists all organizations, authorities, and services whose
mission is to prevent or combat international crime. INTERPOL is now looking for a qualified candidate as Infrastructure
Analyst within the Information Systems and Technology Directorate.

INTERPOL embraces diversity and is committed to achieving diversity and inclusion within its workforce. Qualified
applicants from under-represented member countries and women are strongly encouraged to apply.

Job Title: Infrastructure Analyst (Linux Expert)

Reporting To: Head of Department, Infrastructure
Location: Lyon, France
Duration: 3 years*, Fixed-Term Contract
Grade: 5
Number of post: 1
Level of Security screening: Enhanced
Deadline for application: 31 July 2024

*Subsequent extension to this post will be subject to the terms of the Organization’s Staff Manual, to satisfactory
performance and to availability of funds.

Tests/interviews in connection to this selection procedure will likely take place approximately 3 to 4 weeks after the
deadline for applications. Applicants are kindly requested to plan their availability during this period accordingly, in case
they are short-listed.

Selected candidates will be expected to report for duty approximately two to three months after receiving an offer of
employment at the latest.

This selection exercise may be used to generate a reserve list of suitable candidates that may be contacted to address
Organization's potential staffing needs in the future.

INTERPOL is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes the applications of all qualified candidates who are nationals
of INTERPOL Member Countries, irrespective of their racial or ethnic origin, opinions or beliefs, gender, sexual orientation
and disabilities.

INTERPOL places no restrictions on the eligibility of candidates, without distinction as to race or ethnic origin, religion,
opinions, gender, sexual orientation or disabilities. However, the national policy and laws in force in INTERPOL host
countries may mean that staff members’ spouses or partners, while legally recognized by the Organization, are not given
the same recognition when they reside in certain duty stations. When this is the case, the Organization will inform the
candidates accordingly to ensure that they are aware of the situation and allow them to make an informed decision.
Candidates are also encouraged to familiarize themselves with specific laws and policies that may impact their personal
and family situation in the duty station to which they apply.

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INTRODUCTION OF POST
The holder of the post, under the responsibility of the Head of Department Infrastructure, ensures the smooth operation,
administration and evolution of all systems, servers, networks and components of the IT infrastructure of the Organization
in accordance with established service level agreements (SLAs).

The systems concerned are hosted within the data centers of the Organization at the Headquarters and on remote sites
(Regional Bureaus and National Central Bureaus).

PRIMARY DUTIES

DUTY 1: Infrastructure Operations

▪ Using Site Reliability Engineering principles and practices, implements procedures, playbooks, and automated
tasks to proactively manage our private cloud.
▪ Troubleshoots the systems infrastructure including hardware, virtualization and storage infrastructure and make
corrective actions when necessary.
▪ Provides technical guidance to technicians to ensure the smooth operation of our private cloud.

DUTY 2: Infrastructure Improvements

▪ In collaboration with the Infrastructure Architects works on our annual roadmap projects, their definition and
implementation to ensure continuous improvement of our Infrastructure.
▪ Implements new systems including hardware and software, with the contribution from Infrastructure
technicians, for our production environments. Including the testing and validation prior to deployment.
▪ Following Infrastructure as Code and Configuration Management principals manages the automation tools used
to oversee the complete lifecycle of our IT environment.
▪ Writes codes to reduce toil and remove repetitive tasks, ensure these are available to all team members using
collaborative platforms.
▪ Participates in feasibility studies for new initiatives and with supervision writes the technical specifications for
RFPs.

DUTY 3: Infrastructure Support

▪ Provides level 2 and level 3 infrastructure support.

▪ Takes ownership for the resolution of incidents in production.
▪ Prioritizes and responds to Service Desk tickets as appropriate, provides timely response to escalations in
accordance with defined SLAs.
▪ Ensures all relevant documents exist and standard operating procedures are available and up to date.
▪ Could participate in 24x7 on-call duty rotation.

DUTY 4: Perform any other duties as required by the Supervisor.

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REQUIREMENTS
All candidates will be assessed on the under mentioned requirements
Please only include professional experience for which you can provide official proof of employment (i.e. pay-slip indicating your functional title, work
certificates, etc.). You could be asked to provide copies of such documents prior to interviews/tests. Any discrepancies found between the
information stated in any of your application documents and the evidence of employment provided, will be considered misrepresentation and may
lead to your disqualification from this selection procedure. This is especially important for your current and previous functional titles (they need to
be exactly the same as the one in your contractual agreement), exact dates of employment, description of responsibilities and achievements,
reason(s) for leaving and part-time work.

Training/Education required Specific skills required

▪ Three-to-four years’ education at a University or other ▪ Strong understanding of Linux Operating Systems
specialized higher education establishment. (RHEL, CentOS, Debian, Ubuntu etc) and their
ecosystems.
Experience required ▪ Strong understanding of networking fundamentals
▪ At least 3 years’ experience building, configuring and such as routing, load balancing, Firewalls, DHCP, and
managing enterprise infrastructure, virtual desktop DNS.
solutions and mobile device management solutions. ▪ Knowledge of ITIL methodologies and practices.
▪ Ten years’ experience in the area is required if the Certification would be an additional asset.
post holder does not have the required level of ▪ Experience in the following is highly desirable:
education. ▪ Application containerization and container
orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes.
Languages ▪ Systems monitoring and observability with tools
▪ Working knowledge of English is required. Fluency in such as Grafana, ELK Stack, Prometheus etc.
English is highly desirable. ▪ Automation technologies such as Ansible,
▪ Proficiency in a second official languages of the Terraform and CD/CI pipelines.
Organization (Arabic, French or Spanish) would be an ▪ Virtualization of server and desktop environments.
additional asset. ▪ Managing systems and security updates in large
enterprise environments.
▪ Managing Infrastructure with code using tools
such as Ansible, Terraform and powershell.
▪ Infrastructure as Code practices and tools.

WORKING CONDITIONS

▪ Remuneration for appointment on contract: Salary scales of all duty stations of INTERPOL can be found at
https://www.interpol.int/What-you-can-do/Careers/Vacancies. The starting point is step 1 and one additional step will
be granted for every 3 years of fully relevant experience. The salary scales of INTERPOL’s officials are adjusted at least
once per year (more under exceptional circumstances) on the basis of the methodology used for the calculation of the
Purchase Power Parity (PPP).
▪ The successful candidate may be offered appointment on a higher step depending upon professional background and
experience. For more information regarding conditions of service see Employment conditions for contracted officials
available on the Organization’s career website (https://www.interpol.int/What-you-can-do/Careers).
▪ The incumbent may occasionally be required to work occasional overtime based upon workload and to go on missions.
▪ Within the limits of the applicable regulations in the duty station, INTERPOL supports selected candidates’ visa
applications and/or special residence permits.
In compliance with INTERPOL’s Confidentiality regime the successful candidate will have to undergo a security screening according to the clearance
level attached to the function.
• INTERPOL has four official languages: English, French, Spanish and Arabic.
• INTERPOL retains the right not to make any appointment to this vacancy, to make an appointment at a lower or upper grade, to make an
appointment with a modified job description or for a shorter or longer duration than indicated above.
• INTERPOL would like to inform candidates that their application may be considered for other similar positions.
• INTERPOL operates a non-smoking policy.

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