About this role
<div><div style="padding:10.0px 0.0px;border:1.0px solid transparent"><div style="font-size:18.0px;word-wrap:break-word"><H2 style="font-size:1.0em;margin:0.0px"><b>About the ICRC</b></H2> </div><div><p style="text-align:justify"> </p> <p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt">Since 1863, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has worked to relieve suffering and preserve human dignity during war and armed violence. Alongside our Red Cross and Red Crescent partners, we deliver life-saving aid across front lines and strive to reconnect families and locate missing people.</span></p> <p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt">Engaging with authorities and armed forces on all sides, often confidentially, we advocate for humane treatment of detainees and urge compliance with international humanitarian law to protect civilians from harm, including online.</span></p> <p style="text-align:justify"> </p></div></div><div style="padding:10.0px 0.0px;border:1.0px solid transparent"><div style="font-size:18.0px;word-wrap:break-word"><H2 style="font-size:1.0em;margin:0.0px"><b>Purpose of the Role</b></H2> </div><div><p style="text-align:justify"> </p> <p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt">We are looking for an experienced Platform Engineering Lead to own the engineering practices, toolchain, and delivery pipelines that power our software development lifecycle. As the technical authority on CI/CD, code quality, API management, secrets management, and container platform delivery, you will drive both global digital services and field-facing humanitarian applications deployed in some of the most operationally demanding environments in the world. You will lead a cross-functional team, set standards adopted across all engineering squads, and serve as the connecting force between development, platform, security, and operations, all in direct support of ICRC's mandate to protect and assist people affected by armed conflict and other situations of violence.</span></p> <p style="text-align:justify"> </p></div></div><div style="padding:10.0px 0.0px;border:1.0px solid transparent"><div style="font-size:18.0px;word-wrap:break-word"><H2 style="font-size:1.0em;margin:0.0px"><b>Reports to (role)</b></H2> </div><div><p> </p> <p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt">Engineering Technology Manager</span></p></div></div><div style="padding:10.0px 0.0px;border:1.0px solid transparent"><div style="font-size:18.0px;word-wrap:break-word"><H2 style="font-size:1.0em;margin:0.0px"><b>Main Duties & Responsibilities</b></H2> </div><div><p style="text-align:justify"> </p> <ul> <li style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt">Own and evolve the end-to-end CI/CD strategy on Azure DevOps, covering pipelines as code, multi-stage deployments, environment promotion gates, and self-service pipeline templates for development squads.</span></li> <li style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt">Architect and maintain Azure DevOps organizations, projects, agent pools (Microsoft-hosted and self-hosted), service connections, and pipeline security controls.</span></li> <li style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt">Administer SonarQube, including quality gate design, custom rule sets, branch analysis, PR decoration, and integration with Azure DevOps pipelines, ensuring consistent code quality and security standards across all repositories.</span></li> <li style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt">Own the Gravitee API Gateway platform: design and enforce API management policies, plans, subscriptions, rate limiting, and authentication flows (OAuth 2.0, API keys, JWT), and govern the developer portal.</span></li> <li style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt">Operate and evolve OpenBao for secrets management, covering auth methods, secret engines, dynamic credentials, lease management, and PKI/certificate issuance.</span></li> <li style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt">Establish and enforce DevSecOps practices, embedding shift-left security scanning (SAST, DAST, SCA, container image scanning) natively into CI/CD pipelines.</span></li> <li style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt">Define branching strategies, release management processes, and versioning standards, including semantic versioning and changelog automation.</span></li> <li style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt">Collaborate with security and compliance teams to ensure all toolchain configurations meet ICRC data-protection policies, audit requirements, and relevant regulatory frameworks.</span></li> <li style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt">Mentor DevOps engineers and embed DevOps culture within product teams through coaching, enablement sessions, and architectural guidance.</span></li> <li style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt">Strengthen open-source capabilities across the DevOps toolchain (OpenBao, Gravitee, SonarQube, Kubernetes) by enforcing SBOM, license compliance, and CVE triage in CI/CD pipelines, in alignment with ICRC OSPO governance and contribution policy.</span></li> </ul> <p style="text-align:justify"> </p></div></div><div style="padding:10.0px 0.0px;border:1.0px solid transparent"><div style="font-size:18.0px;word-wrap:break-word"><H2 style="font-size:1.0em;margin:0.0px"><b>Education & Professional Background</b></H2> </div><div><p style="text-align:justify"> </p> <ul> <li style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt">Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field.</span></li> <li style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt">7+ years in DevOps, platform, or infrastructure engineering roles, with at least 3 years in a lead or senior individual-contributor capacity.</span></li> <li style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt">Agile delivery certification; SAFe certification preferred.</span></li> <li style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt">Experience in complex, international, or multicultural environments is an advantage.</span></li> <li style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt">Strong English (written and spoken) is required; French is a plus.</span></li> </ul> <p style="text-align:justify"> </p></div></div><div style="padding:10.0px 0.0px;border:1.0px solid transparent"><div style="font-size:18.0px;word-wrap:break-word"><H2 style="font-size:1.0em;margin:0.0px"><b>Skills & Competencies</b></H2> </div><div><p style="text-align:justify"> </p> <ul> <li style="text-align:justify;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt">Deep hands-on experience with Azure DevOps: pipeline authoring, agent management, environment governance, and organisation-level administration.</span></li> <li style="text-align:justify;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt">Practical experience operating an API gateway platform (Gravitee, Apigee, or equivalent) in production, including policy design, authentication flows, and developer portal management.</span></li> <li style="text-align:justify;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt">Solid understanding of secrets management principles, with hands-on experience using HashiCorp Vault or OpenBao, covering auth methods, dynamic secrets, PKI, and least-privilege policy design.</span></li> <li style="text-align:justify;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt">Experience with security tooling across SAST (e.g. SonarQube), DAST (e.g. Checkmarx), and infrastructure security (e.g. Aqua).</span></li> <li style="text-align:justify;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt">Strong understanding of open-source security risks and experience applying relevant best practices.</span></li> <li style="text-align:justify;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt">Knowledge of containerisation technologies (Docker, Kubernetes) and securing containerised workloads.</span></li> <li style="text-align:justify;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt">Knowledge of data privacy regulations.</span></li> <li style="text-align:justify;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt">Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.</span></li> </ul> <p style="text-align:justify"> </p></div></div><div style="padding:10.0px 0.0px;border:1.0px solid transparent"><div style="font-size:18.0px;word-wrap:break-word"><H2 style="font-size:1.0em;margin:0.0px"><b>Additional Information</b></H2> </div><div><p> </p> <ul> <li style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt">Location: Geneva</span></li> <li style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt">Type of contract: Open-ended</span></li> <li style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt">Activity rate: 100%</span></li> <li style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt">Start date: October 2026</span></li> <li style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt">Recruiter: Alejandra Rodriguez</span></li> <li style="text-align:justify"><span style="color:indianred"><strong><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt">Application deadline: Monday, 13th of July 2026</span></strong></span></li> </ul> <p style="text-align:justify"> </p> <p><strong><span style="color:black;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt">Important information: For future employees and their dependents who are not EU and/or EFTA nationals, settling in Switzerland is now required. Direct settlement in France upon arrival is no longer possible.</span></strong></p> <p> </p></div></div><div style="padding:10.0px 0.0px;border:1.0px solid transparent"><div style="font-size:18.0px;word-wrap:break-word"><H2 style="font-size:1.0em;margin:0.0px"><b>Our Values</b></H2> </div><div><p> </p> <p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">At the ICRC, we value impact, collaboration, respect, and compassion. We seek candidates who demonstrate behaviors based on these shared values. For more information on the ICRC values, please visit this <a title="" href="https://careers.icrc.org/content/Our-Values/?locale=en_GB" target="_self">page</a>.</span></p> <p style="text-align:justify"> </p> <p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Are you ready to explore the next chapter of your career? Apply now!</span></p></div></div></div>