Recruitment of Infrastructure and Security Expert for MoP

Source: World Bank — Ethiopia Digital Foundations Project

Request for Expression of Interest

(Consulting Services – Individual Selection)

Consulting Service for Cloud (DevOps) and Infrastructure Engineer at Ethiopian National ID Program

Country: Ethiopia

Project: Ethiopia Digital Foundations Project

Project ID: P171034

Credit No.  IDA - 68560

Assignment Title:  Selection of Cloud (DevOps) and Infrastructure Engineer at Ethiopian National ID Program

Reference No.: ET-MINT-257305-CS-INDV

The Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, Ministry of Finance (MoF), has received financing from the World Bank toward the cost of the Ethiopia Digital Foundations Project (“Digital Foundations”).  The Ethiopian National ID Program is one of the beneficiaries of the project and intends to apply part of the proceeds for selecting of individual consultants.

National ID Program as part of the project is looking for an Individual Consultant to provide technical assistance that supports the program.  Experienced individual consultants who have experience, passionate and innovative ideas for the position of Cloud (DevOps) and Infrastructure Engineer are invited to express their interest for the assignment.

The Cloud (DevOps) and Infrastructure Engineer expected to focus on responsible for designing and developing the network infrastructure requirements for the entire lifecycle of NID.

The Cloud (Dev-Ops) and Infrastructure Engineer will lead and supervise the architectural design work for network infrastructure components, monitoring various systems including Data Centers (main and backup) and links within and between operational centers. The Cloud (Dev-Ops) and Infrastructure Engineer will also provide key updates and reporting to NID management to ultimately inform decision-making.

Specific responsibilities for the Cloud (Dev-Ops) and Infrastructure Engineer will include, but are not limited to, the following activities:

• Coordinate the infrastructure deployment;
• Configure the system;
• Onboard and liaise with vendors and contractors;
• Report and coordinate with other stakeholders;

MinT on behalf of National ID Program now invites eligible Individual Consultants to indicate their interest to provide the Services. Interested Consultants should provide information demonstrating that they have the required qualifications and relevant experience to perform the services for a period of one year with possibility of extension for additional period subject to outstanding performance of the consultant and availability of budget. The shortlisting criteria include the following;

• Bachelor’s degree in relevant discipline (Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Systems Engineering, or related fields) 
• At least 9+ years of related experience, including experience in management.
• Experience with infrastructure automation, deployment of a large-scale IT Infrastructure, Systems Administration, Dev-Ops
• In-depth knowledge of cloud technology, notably developing cloud-native applications that adhere to micro services.
• Conceptual and practical experience deploying MOSIP.
• Demonstrated knowledge on integrating a central identification platform with Biometric technologies (ABIS, Bio SDK).
• Experience with scalable networking technologies such as Load Balancers, Firewalls and tunneling technologies such as wire-guard and open VPN.
• Ability to lead work effectively as part of a team and strong interpersonal skills.
• Proven ability to roll up your sleeves and implement alongside the other engineers being coached and developed.
• Hands on experience with configuration management and on-premises infrastructure provisioning using automation tools such as: Terra form, Ansible, Chef, Puppet.
• Experience with container orchestration and cluster management tools such as kubernetes, docker swarm, rancher, etc.
• Practical experience on security best practices such as encryption, certificates, hashing, and key management.
• Strong problem-solving and communication skills to lead change and adoption of new technologies.

The attention of interested Consultants is drawn to Section III, paragraphs, 3.14, 3.16, and 3.17 of the World Bank’s “Procurement Regulations for IPF Borrowers” July 2016 (“Procurement Regulations”), setting forth the World Bank’s policy on conflict of interest. A Consultant will be selected in accordance with the Selection of Individual Consultant (Section V) method set out in the Procurement Regulations.

Expressions of interest (CV, Cover letter and documentary evidence for fulfilling the qualifications/Technical Proposal/ and financial proposal /expected lump-sum total offer for the assignment) must be delivered in a written form to the address below in person, or by mail on or before June 7th, 2022. Further information and the detail TOR can be obtained, by email at the below address during office hours from 8:30 AM to 5:30 PM Addis Ababa time: 

Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia,

Ministry of Innovation and Technology (MInT)

Ethiopia Digital Foundations Project

Attn: Focal Person, Project Implementation Unit (PIU)

Address: Arada Sub-city, off Churchill Road, behind Lycée Guebre-Mariam,

E-mail: digital.foundation@mint.gov.et or zelalem.tadesse@mint.gov.et or mesfin.belachew@mint.gov.et

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia