Job Description

Vacancy Notice 1651

INTERPOL is the world’s largest international police organization, with 196 Member Countries. Created in 1923, it facilitates cross-border police co-operation, and supports and assists all organizations, authorities, and services whose mission is to prevent or combat international crime.

INTERPOL strives to achieve a diverse and inclusive workforce and welcomes applications from individuals with diverse backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. To achieve our Diversity goals, we encourage applications from women and nationals of under/unrepresented member countries who are passionate about our mission. INTERPOL’s recruitment process is merit-based hence all hiring decisions are made considering the applicant’s qualifications and the needs of the Organization.

Job Title: Network Analyst
Reporting To: Head of Department, Network and Datacentres
Location: Lyon
Type of contract: Fixed-term Contract
Duration (in months): 36.00 *
Grade: 5
Number of post: 1
Level of Security screening: Basic
Deadline for application: 15 February 2026

Conditions applying for all candidates

Only professional experience for which candidates can provide official proof of employment will be considered. Candidates could be requested to provide copies of such official documents prior to interviews/test.

* Subsequent extension to this post will be subject to the terms of the Organization’s Staff Manual, to satisfactory performance and to availability of funds.

Tests/interviews in connection to this selection procedure will take place approximately 2/3 weeks after the deadline for applications. Applicants are kindly requested to plan their availability during this period accordingly, in case they are short-listed.

​Selected candidates will be expected to report for duty approximately oneThis selection exercise may be used to generate a reserve list of suitable candidates that may be used to address Organization's similar staffing needs in the future.

OF THE ASSIGNED DUTIES, INCLUDING GOALS AND OBJECTIVES OF THE POST

The holder of the post under the responsibility of the Head of Network and Datacentres department, is responsible of the smooth operation, maintenance and evolution of all network infrastructure of the Organization in accordance with established service levels agreements.

The network infrastructure concerned is the Headquarters, the Datacentres, the remote sites (Regional Bureaus and external Office), and I-24/7 network.

PRINCIPAL DUTIES AND ACTIVITIES

1Primary duties

Duty 1: Daily smooth operation of networks services

• Monitors network traffic to identify problems and make capacity planning recommendations
• Maintains and updates the network and security infrastructure, tests and implements vendor security patches, implement workarounds for unpatched security vulnerabilities.
• Troubleshoots the network infrastructure, including IPBX’s, routers, switches, firewalls, VPN, proxy servers and make corrective actions when necessary.
• Create and maintain comprehensive documentation for all implemented networks.
• Could participate in 24x7 on-call rotation.
• Deal with any incidents on telecom networks, network devices (router, firewall, proxy, etc.), servers and computers.
• It may monitor and supervises subcontractors mandated to work on systems and networks.

Duty 2: Design and implementation of network services

• Manages projects for LAN, WAN and VoIP initiatives, plan technology roadmaps, configuration and optimization of all aspects of related network equipment and services.
• Supervises the installation, maintenance, and optimization of all network hardware, software, and communication links.
• Assists with the planning, design, research, upgrade and acquisition of new hardware.
• Stay up to date with network technology on market place and state of the art of the domain. Recommends modifications as necessary.
• Propose to follow trainings accurate to his position.

Perform any other duties as required by the hierarchy.

QUALIFICATIONS, COMPETENCIES AND SKILLS

Education and qualification required:

• University degree in computer science, Engineering or equivalent field is preferred.
• Internationally recognized certifications in Network field.

Experience required:

• Minimum of 5 years professional experience on deployment, configuration, administration and troubleshooting enterprise LAN/WAN.

LANGUAGES:

• Professional English with a good command of at least another INTERPOL official languages.

Specific skills AND APTITUDES:

• IPSec VPN Tunnels
• Firewalling
• WAN links
• WAN Optimization
• Network Address Translation (NAT)
• IPV6
• Deployment, configuration, administration and troubleshooting of Cisco Switches and Routers
• Knowledge of Sniffer Traces and Interpretation
• Spanning Tree Protocol, VLAN, Trunks, Link aggregation
• Static routing and dynamic (EIGRP, OSPF, Basic BGP routing)
• Enterprise Wireless LAN Technologies
• Knowledge of Cisco VoIP technologies is desired
• Knowledge of F5 load-balancers is desired
• Cisco CCNP or CCIE certification is desired

Special abilities and aptitudes required

• High level of human relation skills
• Organized, methodical, efficient
• Ability to listen and to co-ordinate
• Teamwork and reporting
• Integrity and commitment
• Ability to effectively articulate complex ideas/networking concepts through a business lens
• Ability to adequately and effectively address multiple tasks and projects in a context of competing priorities
• Ability to document complex network architectural designs