Experience and Skills required:

Essential:

• Minimum eight (8) years of IT experience, with a focus on Web Applications hosting. A completed university degree from an accredited institution will be counted towards minimum work experience requirements
• Proven experience in Linux environments, installing applications, updates, doing basic troubleshooting, etc.
• Proven experience in supporting the architecture and deployment of highly complex Web applications
• Hands-on knowledge of Public Cloud IaaS & PaaS services
• Excellent knowledge of scripting languages like PHP, Python and/or Bash.
• Good knowledge of container technologies including Orchestration tools like Kubernetes
• Hands-on experience on continuous integration and continuous delivery /continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines
• Hands-on experience on managing MySQL/MariaDB RDBMS: users and permissions management, backups, replication topologies

Desirable:

• Understanding of UNICC products and services
• Hands-on knowledge of Application Performance Monitoring (APM) tools (Elastic)

Education:

Essential:

• Secondary school diploma complemented by training in IT

Desirable:

• Certification in Azure or AWS Cloud Services
• Service Management qualification

Languages:

• English: Expert knowledge is required
• Spanish: Beginner knowledge is desirable

UNICC Global Competencies:

• Teamwork: Develops and promotes effective relationships with colleagues and team members. Deals constructively with conflicts.
• Communicating: Expresses oneself clearly in conversations and interactions with others; listens actively. Produces effective written communications. Ensures that information is shared.
• Respecting and promoting individual and cultural differences: Demonstrates the ability to work constructively with people of all backgrounds and orientations. Respects differences and ensures that all can contribute.
• Producing results: Produces and delivers quality results. Is action oriented and committed to achieving outcomes.
• Moving forward in a changing environment: Is open to and proposes new approaches and ideas. Adapts and responds positively to change.

Eligibility:

This position is subject to local recruitment pursuant to staff rule 4.4 of the United Nations Staff Rules. All staff in the General Service and related categories shall be recruited in the country or within commuting distance of each office, irrespective of their nationality and of the length of time they may have been in the country. A staff member subject to local recruitment shall not be eligible for the allowances or benefits exclusively applicable to international recruitment.

Compensation:

Annual Salary Estimation (net of tax at single rate):

• Valencia: EUR 44,839

UNICC also offers generous leave and absence allowances, flexible working hours, overtime compensation, teleworking, access to training, and depending on eligibility other benefits such as relocation grant, dependency allowance, language allowance, or education grant.

Closing date for applications:

Applications will be accepted until midnight (Geneva Time) on 10 March 2024.

Notes:

• Technical and/or personality tests may be carried out as part of the selection process
• Only short-listed candidates will be contacted
• Though you may not be selected for this advertised position, the UNICC will keep your application in a roster if your profile is deemed to be of potential interest for the Centre. You may thus be solicited by our HR department to participate in an interview for another position

Please inform us should you require any specific accommodation to facilitate your application

The UNICC workforce consists of many diverse nationalities, cultures, languages, and opinions. UNICC seeks to sustain and strengthen this diversity by ensuring equal opportunity and an inclusive working environment for its entire workforce. Applications are encouraged from all qualified candidates without distinction on grounds of race, ethnicity, sex, national origin, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation and gender identity.

For applications to be valid, they must contain a motivation letter and the filled Personal History Form.