PU-17/0124 - Web Ops Specialist 2

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Summary of the work ONS Digital is continuing to improve its public facing digital products following the launch of the new website earlier this year. This role will work alongside the existing team to work on an ambitious roadmap to improve the scalability, stability and monitoring of the platform. Specialist role Web operations engineer Expected Contract Length 6 months Latest start date 12/09/2016 Maximum Day Rate 600 Early Market Engagement n/a Who Speclialist Work With A multi-disciplinary agile team including UX designer, user researcher, front-end developer, back-end developer, content designer, tech arch, delivery manager and service manager What Specialists Work On The WebOps Engineer will work on an ambitious project to migrate the ONS Dissemination platform to a PaaS environment and in the process will work with the Tech Lead and colleagues to improve our build processes, monitoring, automated testing and scaling. Skills & Experience • Collaborating closely with colleagues in order to meet users’ needs • Debugging a complex, multi-server service in a high availability environment • Using languages such as Go and Java within an existing, production codebase • Using configuration management tools such Ansible • Azure • Experience of commodity cloud providers such as AWS, GCE, , etc and their offering. Ideally more than one. • Interested in DevOps, and infrastructure as code. • Understand the concept of a Platform as a Service (PaaS) • Familiarity with Docker • Understanding of application deployment strategies, continuous integration and version control (git, svn, bzr, mercurial) • Rigorous approach to software development (TDD, code review, pairing) • Ability to develop tooling for automation and provisioning. • Knowledge and experience of Jenkins. • Knowledge and experience of Kafka. Work Location Newport, South Wales Working Arrangments Work will be on-site in Newport (Mon-Fri) - there is the potential for work from home days by agreement with Service Manager, Security Clearance Disclosure Scotland security vetting. Additional T&Cs Framework Ts and Cs No. of Specialists to Evaluate 5 Cultural Fit Criteria • Work as a team with our organisation and other suppliers • Transparent and collaborative when making decisions • Have a no-blame culture and encourage people to learn from their mistakes Evaluation Weighting Technical competence 60% Cultural fit 20% Price 20% Questions from Suppliers No questions have been answered yet.