Systems Engineering Officer (AIX Systems Admin for SAP Infrastructure)

Innovation and partnership bond the five institutions of the World Bank Group (WBG): the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) and the International Development Association (IDA), which together form the World Bank; the International Finance Corporation (IFC); the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA); and the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID). The World Bank Group is one of the world’s largest sources of funding and knowledge for developing countries. It uses financial resources and extensive experience to help our client countries to reduce poverty, increase economic growth, and improve quality of life. To ensure that countries can access the best global expertise and help generate cutting-edge knowledge, the World Bank Group is constantly seeking to improve the way it works. Key priorities include delivering measurable results, promoting openness and transparency in development, and improving access to development information and data.
Vice Presidency Context

The Information Management Technology (IMT) Vice Presidency is the World Bank’s central function for the provision of information and technology services to the Bank’s business units. The overarching objective of this function is to ensure that end-users have the information and systems to do their jobs at all locations where Bank business is being done.  The management of most of the end-user IT services, business solutions and the underlying technology infrastructure is centralized with IMT.  IMT is structured in a federated operating model with separate dedicated application development and management departments for each of the three Bank business lines:

Operations and Knowledge, Finance Complex, and Corporate Functions which also supports MIGA and ICSID.   Each of business line application departments is lead by a CIO who works closely with a business line governance group to align the systems investment portfolio with the business priorities.  Shared services of underlying infrastructure and applications platforms are provided by the Enterprise Architecture unit and the Technology Engineering and Infrastructure department. IMT also provides shared services to IFC.
The World Bank has adopted a three-year IMT Strategy that is centered on seizing value opportunities; creating agile delivery capacity; promoting standards; managing risks; and transforming the IMT Organization.  Front office functions including strategy and outreach, innovation, budget, program management, information security, and risk management provide the enabling authorizing environment and control processes to help the IMT service and project managers meet the goals of the IMT strategy efficiently and effectively.

Unit Context

The Technology and Engineering department (IMTTE), composed of about 250 personnel, is responsible for providing and maintaining the IT infrastructure framework on top of which business applications and customers are serviced on an efficient and cost-effective manner. The organization strives to provide quality services to meet a variety of business requirements and its performance is regularly assessed by means of industry relevant benchmarks and annual certification/compliance with standards frame works like SOX, ISO20000, and ISO27001.

The IMTEI scope of activities is composed of a wide range of services including Data Center operations, Global Network, Telecommunications, Video-Conferencing, Desktop Management, Portals, WEB, Financial & HR platform support including SAP and PeopleSoft. The services are tightly integrated and standardized in a way to provide 24x7 availability and transparency to some 13,000 users spread throughout headquarters and country offices.

The IMTTE organization is also proud of the quality of its cardre of IT professionals. It has over the years emphasized the hiring of the right set of people equipped with the means to adjust to a culture of excellence and dedicated to promote IT as an enabler of the core mission of the Bank.

The selected candidate will work in the business systems enterprise infrastructure team of IMTTE. This team provides SAP Server Infrastructure Administration services to IBRD, IFC, MIGA, and ICSID clients. This SAP Infrastructure platform is based on AIX and p-Series servers, MS Windows servers, EMC VMAX and VNX storage, and TSM backup with 200 server hosts and 400 terabytes of SAN storage. SAP Server Infrastructure Administration activities include complete support for servers, storage, backups, SAP application users to the WBG (World Bank, IFC, MIGA, and ICSID).

Note: If the selected candidate is a current Bank Group staff member with a Regular or Open-Ended appointment, s/he will retain his/her Regular or Open-Ended appointment. All others will be offered a 3 year term appointment.

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Systems Engineering Officer (AIX Systems Admin for SAP Infrastructure)

Information Management and Technology

Professional & Technical

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Washington, DC

8-Nov-2012