WP1205 - GOV.UK Pay WebOps Engineer Specialist

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Summary of the work You'll work in the multi disciplinary agile GOV.UK Pay Team, to support our existing WebOps specialists to scale our recently launched and PCI DSS accredited payments platform to onboard new government services and run the production to help the development team build software that's easy to operate, scale and secure. Specialist role Web operations engineer Expected Contract Length 6 months, with a review at the 3 month point. Latest start date 5/1/2017 Maximum Day Rate £760 Who Speclialist Work With Multi-disciplinary team, mainly WebOps and back end developers, technical architect, technical lead, user researchers, product managers, delivery managers, tech author. What Specialists Work On Working with our already established WebOps and Development teams to tackle our outstanding backlog required for the GOV.UK Pay platform to further develop our PCI DSS accredited payments platform, to tackle our outstanding backlog of work to scale our current platform to onboard more government services and expand our product offering to both citizen users and backend staff. The role will also include supporting our existing platform and will require some out of hours support work. Skills & Experience • Experience collaborating closely with colleagues in order to meet users’ needs • Experience working in a multi-disciplinary, self organising agile team • Experience mentoring developers on good Ops practise. • Experience debugging a complex, multi-server service in a high availability environment • Experience deploying and operating applications developed in Java, node.js in a production environment • Experience using configuration management tools such as Puppet, Chef, Ansible • Experience administering PostgreSQL • Familiarity with network protocols – TCP/IP, HTTP, TLS, etc • Demonstrable understanding of application deployment strategies, continuous integration and version control • Experience with and comfortable with using automated testing • Experience building and configuring new server platforms and the automated tooling to do so • Experience of AWS (EC2 and RDS) • Experience of delivering a complex web application stack Nice to Haves • Experience working on a PCI accredited environment • Experience operating Docker in a production environment • Experience with modsecurity • Experience supporting a 24/7 platform service Work Location Holborn, London 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. Moving offices to Aldgate Mar17 OnCall support out of hours and weekends on rotation approx every 4 weeks Security Clearance It is preferred that the candidate already has SC clearance, however if this is not currently held, they must be willing to undertake the SC clearance process. No. of Specialists to Evaluate 3 Cultural Fit Criteria To work well in a collaborative multi-disciplinary agile team Evaluation Weighting Technical competence 65% Cultural fit 15% Price 20% Questions from Suppliers 1. Will SC Clearance be a factor in assessment of the candidate? No it will not be used as a factor in the assessment. It would be preferred that candidates have SC clearance before joining but if not, they must be willing to undertake the SC clearance process. 2. How is the evaluation being done for this role, some are asking for CVs, others are asking candidates to fill out evidence spread sheets? When the opportunity closes we will ask for either Shortlisting evidence or Work histories. We will provide you with the templates for each as required.