WP1101: Additional Systems Engineer (DevOps) for GOV.UK Pay

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Summary of the work We're looking for a Senior Systems Engineer (DevOps) to join the GOV.UK Pay team at GDS. You'll be working in a multi disciplinary agile team to support our already existing specialists to finish the required backlog for our payments platform to become PCI compliant. Ideal supplier can start ASAP. Specialist role Web operations engineer Expected Contract Length Max 6 months with review after 3months Latest start date 1/7/2016 Who Speclialist Work With Front & back end developers, technical architect, user researchers, content designers, product managers, user support, delivery managers What Specialists Work On Helping our already established webops teams to tackle our outstanding backlog required for the GOV.UK Pay platform to become PCI compliant Skills & Experience • Collaborating closely with colleagues in order to meet users’ needs (10points) • Debugging a complex, multi-server service in a high availability environment (10points) • Understanding of application deployment strategies, continuous integration and version control (10points) • Comfortable with automated testing (10points) • Building and configuring new server platforms and the automated tooling to do so (10points) • Familiarity with network protocols – TCP/IP, HTTP, TLS, etc (10points) • Deploying and operating applications developed in Java, node.js in a production environment (10points) • Using configuration management tools such as Puppet, Chef, Ansible (10points) • Administering PostgreSQL (10points) • Experience of AWS (EC2 and RDS), delivering a complex web application stack (10points) Nice to Haves • Experience working on a PCI accredited environment (5points) • Experience operating Docker in a production environment (5points) • Experience with modsecurity (5points) Work Location Government Digital Service Aviation House 125 Kingsway London WC2B 6NH Working Arrangments Monday to Friday 7.5 hours per day + lunch time Must start work by 09:45 and not end before 16:00 Mainly based from our office in Holborn, with opportunities to work from home part time Security Clearance Minimum Baseline Personnel Security Standard No. of Specialists to Evaluate 3 Cultural Fit Criteria To work well in a collaborative multi-disciplinary agile team Evaluation Weighting Technical competence 70% Cultural fit 10% Price 20% Questions from Suppliers No questions have been answered yet.