Junior Web Developer at United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)

Task description

Under the direct supervision of the Head of Web and Dev-ops lead, working closely with developers and web client team, the National UN Volunteer will undertake the following tasks:

• Support the back-end development team to help migrate to docker based deployment workflows for all applications that UNEP manages;
• Work with dev-ops to migrate existing Gitlab CI/CD pipelines to provide better deployment experience to engineers;
• Support integration Gitlab repository with applications to provide developers with better tools for observability;
• Help in optimizing infrastructure usage to better manage expenditure.
• Regular infrastructure maintenance and upgrades.
• Support the AWS migration efforts;
• Support the back-end team in the migration of unep.org to Elastic Search;
• Provide support to the engineering and back end set of the publication page dashboard that displays key metrics.

Furthermore, UN Volunteers are required to:

• Strengthen their knowledge and understanding of the concept of volunteerism by reading relevant UNV and external publications and take active part in UNV activities (for instance in events that mark International Volunteer Day);
• Be acquainted with and build on traditional and/or local forms of volunteerism in the host country;
• Reflect on the type and quality of voluntary action that they are undertaking, including participation in ongoing reflection activities;
• Contribute articles/write-ups on field experiences and submit them for UNV publications/websites, newsletters, press releases, etc.;
• Assist with the UNV Buddy Programme for newly-arrived UN Volunteers;
• Promote or advise local groups in the use of online volunteering, or encourage relevant local indi-viduals and organizations to use the UNV Online Volunteering service whenever technically possible.

Required experience

• 3 years of experience in analysis, design and development of web applications
• Some understanding of containerization. Experience with container orchestration with Kubernates/Fargate is a plus
• Experience with PHP/Nodejs is desired. A combination of either PHP/NodeJS and another language such as Python/Go/Rust is also acceptable
• Proven experience with cloud infrastructure, specifically AWS, is desirable
• Proven work experience with Linux
• Experience with web applications
• Working experience with data analytics and tools like Google Analytics, Data Studio are a plus
• Interest in business intelligence is appreciated
• Professional accountability and experience working in a team collaborative/ start up environment where different hats and tasks can be assumed

Closing date: 25 May 2022