DevOps Lead Engineer

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Who Speclialist Work With The Lead DevOps Specialist will work closely with a Delivery Manager, Project Managers, Product Owners, Developers and Sys Admins across Internal and External Stakeholders. What Specialists Work On Define, implement, manage and maintain the hosting environments required to support Innovate UKs strategic objectives for platforms and hosting, working with suppliers and other Stakeholders as necessary to ensure fit for service architecture and processes are implemented Operational management of Infrastructure and applications Building and configuring new server platforms and infrastructure, using automated tooling to do so Testing, debugging and troubleshooting of platform level problems Supporting development teams configuring applications for deployment Assessing the DevOps Maturity of the organisation and identifying/implementing improvements as applicable Identification/development of resources to establish a sustainable internal capability for long term Devops and hosting needs Where the Work Takes Place Innovate UK North Star House, North Star Avenue, Swindon SN2 1UE Other locations maybe required but will be agreed in advance. Early Market Engagement Working Arrangements Monday to Friday on site, locations as described above. A professional working day, hours and working pattern as needed to deliver the service in an efficient way as agreed by the Delivery Manager Work Location Innovate UK North Star House, North Star Avenue, Swindon SN2 1UE Other locations maybe required but will be agreed in advance. Security Clearance BPSS - Baseline Personnel Security Standard Additional T&Cs Framework Terms and conditions Skills & Experience Proven (and recent) experience on cloud migration to a modern platform utilising configuration management. Understanding of common web application architectures Strong linux system administration skills, predominantly in CentOS and RHEL Experience debugging a complex multi-server service Securely Deploying and configuring machines in a Cloud environment Installation and management of COTS/open source monitoring tools such as Nagios, New Relic, OSSEC, ELK Familiarity with network protocols - TCP/IP, HTTP, SSL, etc. Experience of containerisation, ideally using Docker Experience of using automated environment build tooling e.g. Terraform Experience of building infrastructure within the AWS cloud using AWS technologies such as lambda, s3, ec2, iam, ebs, elastic beanstalk, route53, ses, rds, elasticache, autoscaling, loadbalancers, vpc Strong scripting and language skills i.e. Ruby, Bash, Python, Java Experience of automated software configuration, ideally using Ansible Experience of continuous integration tooling, ideally using Bamboo / Jenkins Skills in networking / routing / load balancing and VPN configuration Vagrant/Virtualbox, CoreOS, Docker/lxc-container. Databases - Oracle/PL-SQL, SQL Server, Postgres, MySQL, NoSQL (Cassandra, MongoDB, DynamoDB) Others – Jira, Confluence, Stash, Nexus, Artifactory, SonarQube Nice to Haves Understanding of application deployment strategies and continuous integration CESG certified professional (IA Architect) Familiar with agile delivery Working within a product-centric environment No. of Specialists to Evaluate 5 Cultural Fit Criteria Work as a team with our organisation and other suppliers Able to thrive in a self motivated, autonomous and empowered environment Take a transparent and collaborative approach when making decisions DevSecOps Evangelist with a no-blame culture, encouraging people to learn from their mistakes Mentor, share knowledge/experience with other team members Assessment Method Evaluation Weighting Technical competence 60% Cultural fit 20% Price 20% Questions from Suppliers Budget range