WP1263 - Provision of 1 WebOps specialist for GOV.UK Pay

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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 ASAP Maximum Day Rate £760 Early Market Engagement None. 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 3rd Floor, Aviation House, 125 Kingsway, Holborn, 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. Moving offices to Aldgate Mar 17. OnCall support out of hours and weekends on rotation approx every 4 weeks Security Clearance BPSS but preferably SC clearance due to the amount of time this takes to 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 No questions have been answered yet.