.The United Nations Global Service Centre (UNGSC) provides critical Supply Chain, Geospatial, Information and Telecommunications Technologies services and Training to all Secretariat Entities, Peacekeeping and Special Political Missions, Agencies, Funds and Programmes of the UN system worldwide.The position is located in the Platform Support Unit (PSU) of the Infrastructure Operations Section (IOS) within the Service for Geospatial, Information and Telecommunication Technology (SGITT) at the UNGSC, Valencia, Spain.The incumbent will work under the supervision of Chief of the Unit or other designated officer.Responsibilities :Within delegated authority, the Information Systems Officer may be responsible for the following duties:Manages projects involving feasibility studies, systems analysis, design, development and implementation of new, moderately complexsystems, and/or, participates as a member of a development team with responsibility for major components of the more complex systems.- Develops detailed system and other functional specifications and user documentation for major systems.systems integration and linkage issues.Maintains, upgrades or enhances existing user systems; troubleshoots and provides continuing user support, to include resolving difficult problems, advising on the use of new techniques and Agile methodologies, monitoring transactions to measure performance and continued effectiveness of assigned systems, etc.Develops and maintains computer programs that require integration of many interrelated systems and program elements; ensures appropriatedata security and access controls considering both local and wide area issues.Organizes and performs unit and integrated testing, designing and utilizing test bases; assists users in acceptance testing.Develops training materials, operating and user manuals; trains staff in assigned systems.Develops disaster recovery plans and ensures appropriate planning and training of those responsible.Researches, analyzes and evaluates new technologies and makes recommendations for their deployment.Participates in writing reports and papers on systems-related topics, system requirements, information strategy, etc.Ensure that UNGSC Hybrid multi-cloud hosting environments have sufficient performance, capacity, and availability, including documentation and compliance to policies.Serves as engineering level support for organization's high performance Hybrid Cloud Data Storage and overall Data backup system.Develop and maintains UN Hybrid Cloud Data Lake infrastructure.Provide expertise counseling, support, and suggestions to ERP support technical teams.Support ERP related equipment through its life cycle.Provides guidance to, and may supervise, new/junior staff, consultants, etc
