Organisational Context

The position of Azure Engineer is a part of the Business Solutions Development Unit (BSDU) within the Information Knowledge and Evidence Management Section (IKEMS) and reports to the Systems Architect (Head of BSDU).

IKEMS, headed by an Information Management Coordinator, combines the OTP’s information, solutions development, digital forensics and evidence management operations into one consolidated section. IKEMS aims to maintain a coordinated, flexible and operationally responsive IKEM support capacity throughout the OTP, in order to support the full spectrum of the OTP’s information and evidence operations.

Duties and Responsibilities

Under the direct supervision of the Head of the Business Solutions Development Unit and the overall management of the Information Management Coordinator, the incumbent will perform the following tasks:

• Deploys and manages OTP needs and resources in Microsoft cloud environments and their cloud infrastructure. Supports and maintains existing OTP cloud-based solutions (OTPLink, eVault, etc.) and develops, deploys and supports new solutions ensuring alignment and integration amongst these within the OTP's cloud environment.
• Supports development, deployment and system enhancements of the OTP's evidence enrichment solution in the areas of MS cognitive services and third-party Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence (ML/AI) and other solutions as required.
• Supports and integrates the in-house development of new applications and/or cloud-based solutions while actively maintaining and enhancing the OTP's Infrastructure as Code (Bicep) codebase and DevOps CI/CD pipelines.
• Designs, drafts and implements architectural plans and infrastructure blueprints with a cloud-first and security-by-design strategic mindset and ensures alignment, integration and coherence amongst cloud-native solutions within the OTP's cloud environment.
• In close collaboration with the IMSS Microsoft Azure engineer, is responsible for OTP's digital transformation and onward cloud journey in the areas of cloud productivity (M365 tenant) and cloud datacentre (Azure Datacentre) while reenforcing IMSS in its daily support and maintenance activities related to Microsoft cloud solutions while prioritising OTP needs.
• Other duties as required.

Essential Qualifications

Education:

Advanced university degree in a scientific discipline such as computer science, software engineering, science, engineering, information science, information systems, mathematics, or other related area is required. A first level university degree in combination with two additional years of qualifying experience is accepted in lieu of an advanced university degree.

Microsoft Certified Solution Architect or Azure Administrator Associate or MS Azure DevOps Engineer is required. Additional certifications in Azure AI, Security and Data Science, and Power Platform would be considered an advantage.

Certifications, diplomas or qualifications in a technical or information management-related field would be considered an advantage. Training in Business Analysis, Project Management (PMP, PRINCE2), and/or Agile/Scrum is required.

Experience:

A minimum of 5 years of relevant professional experience (7 years with a first level university degree) in a fast-paced software development team is required. At least two years’ experience at the international level, is preferred.

A minimum of 3 years of IT experience supporting and troubleshooting enterprise level, mission-critical applications resolving around highly complex issues/situations and driving technical resolution across cross-functional organizations, is required.

Experience within a legal, investigative, or law enforcement environment is preferred.

A minimum of 4 years of experience in the design, implementation, maintenance and delivery of Microsoft Azure projects is required.

Experience with DevOps practices is required to ensure continuous integration and delivery. This includes proficiency with CI/CD pipelines using tools like Azure DevOps and Jenkins. Knowledge of version control systems such as Git is required.

Knowledge, skills and abilities:

• Demonstrated knowledge of Microsoft Azure infrastructure and its relevant build, deployment, automation, identity and access management, networking, and cloud security technologies in cloud and hybrid environments is required.
• Experience with Azure SQL Server is required. Experience with Cosmos DB, or MongoDB is preferred. Experience working in Data Analytics and employing ETL logic, working with Data lakes or Data warehouse is preferred.
• Knowledge of software development methodologies and frameworks such as SCRUM, UML, BPMN is required.

Knowledge of languages:

Proficiency in one of the working language of the Court, English or French, is required. Working knowledge of the other is desirable. Knowledge of another official language of the Court (Arabic, Chinese, Russian and Spanish) would be considered an asset.

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Collaboration
People
Results

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Professionalism
Teamwork
Learning and developing
Handling uncertain situations
Interaction
Realising objectives

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General Information
- Candidates appointed to posts at a P-5 grade or in the Director category are subject to a maximum aggregate length of service of seven years. This is pursuant to a decision of the Assembly of States Parties (ASP Resolution ICC-ASP/23/Res.2) to implement a tenure policy at the Court as of 1 January 2025.

- The selected candidate will be subject to a Personnel Security Clearance (PSC) process in accordance with ICC policy. The PSC process will include but will not be limited to, verification of the information provided in the personal history form and a criminal record check.

- Applicants may check the status of vacancies on ICC E-Recruitment web-site.

- Post to be filled by a national of a State Party to the ICC Statute, or of a State which has signed and is engaged in the ratification process or which is engaged in the accession process. This is pursuant to a decision of the Assembly of States Parties (ASP Resolution ICC-ASP/23/Res.3) to introduce a moratorium on the recruitment by the ICC of staff of non-States Parties’ nationality.

- In accordance with the Rome Statute, the ICC aims to achieve fair representation of women and men for all positions, representation of the principal legal systems of the world for legal positions, and equitable geographical representation for positions in the professional category.

- Applications from female candidates are particularly encouraged.

- The International Criminal Court applies the Inter-Organization Mobility Accord and can support secondment of staff from organizations of the United Nations Common System.