WP1355 - PaaS WebOps Specialist

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Who Speclialist Work With Multi-disciplinary team, mainly WebOps and back end developers, technical architect, user researchers, product managers, delivery managers, tech author What Specialists Work On 1. Development of the Government PaaS platform including tools 2. Operational input to the existing team to deliver an excellent user experience 3. Support of platform including out of hours support of production platform 4. Providing skills transfer to public servants on the team. Where the Work Takes Place 3rd Floor, Aviation House, 125 Kingsway, Holborn, London WC2B 6NH Early Market Engagement Working Arrangements Monday to Friday based in our office (currently Holborn we will be moving to Aldgate in June). There will be a requirement to participate in out of hours (OOH) support of the platform (on call) - on average one week in six. The OOH support will be paid separately from the day rate of the winning supplier candidates. Work Location 3rd Floor, Aviation House, 125 Kingsway, Holborn, London WC2B 6NH Security Clearance SC clearance required. Additional T&Cs Skills & Experience Experience collaborating closely with colleagues in order to meet users’ needs Experience debugging a complex, multi-server service in a high availability production environment. Please give examples. Experience using several languages such as Ruby, Python, Go, and Java within an existing, production codebase Experience of developing/operating a PaaS with Cloudfoundry and BOSH and using in a production environment. Please give examples. Experience of commodity cloud providers such as AWS in a production system. Please give examples. Experience administering common open source databases like Postgres, MongoDB, Redis etc. in a production environment. Please give examples. Using Terraform as a configuration management tool in a complex production environment. Please give an example of using continuous integration and version control (e.g. using git) to create an application deployment workflow to a production environment, Evidence/examples of a rigorous approach to software development (TDD, code review, pairing) Experience and ability to develop tooling for automation and provisioning. Please give examples. Nice to Haves Proven interest in DevOps, and infrastructure as code. Experience of deploying a monitoring solution such as Datadog. Please give an example. Experience of setting up and using a continuous delivery and deployment pipeline using Concourse, in a production environment. Please give examples. Experience of the process of adding features to open source software and the approach to documentation. Experience supporting a production environment and supporting technical customers/users. Experience of working in multiple agile teams, please give examples. Experience of using other CM tools such as such as Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Salt, in a production environment. Please give examples. No. of Specialists to Evaluate 10 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. Collaborating closely with colleagues in order to meet users’ needs. Has experience of and likes pairing and knowledge sharing. Like to work in an agile environment. Assessment Method Evaluation Weighting Technical competence 65% Cultural fit 15% Price 20% Questions from Suppliers Budget range £760