Associate Infrastructure Engineer - req35541

Associate Infrastructure Engineer

Job #: req35541

Organization: World Bank

Sector: Information Technology

Grade: GF

Term Duration: 2 years 0 months

Recruitment Type: Local Recruitment

Location: Chennai,India

Required Language(s): English

Preferred Language(s)

Closing Date: 2/24/2026 (MM/DD/YYYY) at 11:59pm UTC

Description

Do you want to build a career that is truly worthwhile Working at the World Bank Group provides a unique opportunity for you to help our clients solve their greatest development challenges. The World Bank Group is one of the largest sources of funding and knowledge for developing countries; a unique global partnership of five institutions dedicated to ending extreme poverty, increasing shared prosperity and promoting sustainable development. With 189 member countries and more than 130 offices worldwide, we work 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. For more information, visit www.worldbank.org

ITS Vice Presidency Context

The Information and Technology Solutions (ITS) Vice Presidential Unit (VPU) enables the World Bank Group to achieve its mission of ending extreme poverty and boost shared prosperity on a livable planet by delivering transformative information and technologies to its staff working in over 150+ locations. For more information on ITS, see this video: https://www.youtube.com/watchreload=9&v=VTFGffa1Y7w

Department Context

The World Bank Group Technology Office (ITSTO) defines and executes the technology strategy for the World Bank Group, ensuring that technological investments and standards deliver secure, resilient, and efficient platforms to support global operations. Through strategic planning, enterprise architecture, platform engineering, and core infrastructure management, ITSTO aligns technology initiatives with the Bank Group's mission and business objectives.

ITSTO drives technology-enabled innovation, modernizes infrastructure, and enhances organizational agility. By fostering collaboration across all World Bank Group entities—including IBRD, IDA, IFC, MIGA, and ICSID—ITSTO leverages technology as a catalyst for accelerating development impact and advancing digital transformation. Its leadership ensures that technology serves as a strategic enabler for achieving the Bank Group's development goals, empowering the institution to address emerging challenges and opportunities with greater efficiency and effectiveness.

Unit Context

The Infrastructure Engineering team is instrumental in advancing the World Bank Group's mission by designing, building, and maintaining the foundational IT infrastructure that supports global operations. The team manages critical infrastructure components end-to-end, including data centers, infrastructure as code, enterprise networks, storage systems, compute resources, virtualization platforms, and disaster recovery solutions. Their efforts ensure that infrastructure services are robust, secure, scalable, and cost-effective, forming the backbone for reliable digital services across all business units.

Committed to operational excellence and continuous improvement, Infrastructure Engineering proactively monitors and optimizes infrastructure performance to meet evolving business needs. The team leads modernization initiatives, adopts emerging technologies, and implements best practices in infrastructure management. Collaboration with other technology teams—including cloud engineering, cybersecurity, application development, and IT service management—ensures seamless integration of cloud, automation, and security strategies.

Supporting the World Bank Group's digital transformation agenda, Infrastructure Engineering champions innovative solutions and automation to enhance the productivity and efficiency of IT operations. The team also plays a vital role in ensuring business continuity and resilience through comprehensive disaster recovery planning and execution. By fostering a culture of collaboration, agility, and technical excellence, Infrastructure Engineering empowers the organization to deliver reliable, high-performing digital services that enable global development operations and advance the Bank's strategic objectives.

The World Bank Group values diversity and encourages all qualified candidates who are nationals of World Bank Group member countries to apply, regardless of gender, gender identity, religion, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or disability. Sub-Saharan African nationals, Caribbean nationals, and women candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.

Role

Associate Infrastructure Engineer (Storage and Backup Automation Architect/Administrator) responsible for the design, development, implementation, and operation of enterprise storage and backup automation infrastructure across on-premises and cloud environments (AWS, Azure, OCI) to support institutional IRE on cloud.

Key Responsibilities

• The candidate will combine storage/backup engineering and programming skills to build automated pipelines for provisioning, protection, recovery, replication, and lifecycle management across on-prem and AWS/Azure/OCI.
• Work with on-premises storage (SAN/NAS/Object) and cloud-native storage/backup services to design standardized, secure, and scalable solutions.
• Use Python and at least one additional language (e.g., Bash, PowerShell, or Go) to develop automation pipelines, APIs/integrations, and validation tests for platform operations.
• Implement infrastructure as code (Terraform preferred; CloudFormation/Bicep/OCI Resource Manager), CI/CD workflows (Git-based), and policy-driven guardrails for repeatable, compliant deployments.
• Administer and operate Cohesity backup environments (on-prem and cloud), including policy design, immutability, ransomware protections, and recovery orchestration for hosts, databases, and cloud services.
• Maintain and optimize Pure Storage arrays (FlashArray/FlashBlade): provisioning, zoning, multipathing, snapshots/clones, replication, and performance tuning.
• Monitor performance and diagnose problems across storage/backup infrastructure; instrument observability (Splunk, CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, OCI Logging) with dashboards, alerts, SLIs/SLOs, and automated reporting.
• Design, document, and test disaster recovery (DR) plans and runbooks; conduct periodic DR exercises, capture results, remediate gaps, and report compliance posture.
• Handle escalation calls from the NOC, perform triage, resolve incidents/requests via ServiceNow; maintain high-quality documentation (drawings, spreadsheets, procedures, runbooks, KB articles).
• Lead moderate-to-large implementations, migrations, and platform upgrades; coordinate cross-functional delivery in a matrixed environment; provide capacity planning and cost optimization recommendations (tiering, deduplication, compression, lifecycle).
  
  

Selection Criteria

Educational Qualifications And Experience

• Master's degree with 5 years relevant experience or bachelor's degree with a minimum of 7 years' relevant experience is required.
• Storage/Backup/recovery engineering experience is required.
  
  

Required Skills/Abilities

• Hands-on expertise with AWS, Azure, and OCI storage/data protection services (e.g., EBS/EFS/S3 with Object Lock; Azure Disks/Files/Blob; OCI Block/Object; snapshots, replication, lifecycle/tiering).
• Cohesity administration and operations (policy design, protection groups, immutability, ransomware protection, recovery orchestration) across on-prem and cloud.
• Pure Storage arrays (FlashArray/FlashBlade), SAN/NAS management, zoning/multipathing, performance tuning, snapshots/replication.
• Infrastructure automation and IaC: Terraform (preferred), CloudFormation/Bicep/OCI Resource Manager; pipeline orchestration with Rundeck; configuration management with Chef/Ansible (or equivalents).
• Programming proficiency in Python and at least one additional language (Bash, PowerShell, or Go); ability to design algorithms and automate recurring tasks with testable, maintainable code.
• Strong Unix/Linux concepts; TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, VLANs, routing, firewalls; cloud networking (VPC/VNet/VCN), Direct Connect/ExpressRoute/FastConnect.
• Observability/analytics using Splunk, CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, OCI Logging; experience building dashboards, alerts, and automated reporting.
• Security/compliance: encryption key management (KMS/CMK), IAM/RBAC, least privilege, backup immutability, data retention; familiarity with ransomware mitigation and recovery strategies.
• Service management experience with ServiceNow or similar ITSM platforms; incident, change, and problem management.
• Ability to work independently with minimum supervision and communicate clearly on complex technical topics.
  
  

Certifications (Preferred)

• Cloud Network Engineering Certification (AWS/ Azure/ GCP/ OCI)
• SAFe DevOps (SDP)
• ITIL 4 Intermediate
  
  

WBG Culture Attributes

• Sense of urgency: Anticipate and quickly respond to the needs of internal and external stakeholders.
• Thoughtful risk-taking: Challenge the status quo and push boundaries to achieve greater impact.
• Empowerment and accountability: Empower yourself and others to act and hold each other accountable for results.
  
  

World Bank Group Core Competencies

The World Bank Group offers comprehensive benefits, including a retirement plan; medical, life and disability insurance; and paid leave, including parental leave, as well as reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities.

We are proud to be an equal opportunity and inclusive employer with a dedicated and committed workforce, and do not discriminate based on gender, gender identity, religion, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or disability.

Learn more about working at the World Bank and IFC , including our values and inspiring stories.
Skills Required
cohesity , Servicenow, Splunk, Bash, Terraform, Cloudwatch, Cloudformation, Pure Storage, Go, oci, Azure, Aws, Python, Powershell