WP1424 Technical Architect Specialist for GOV.UK Verify

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Summary of the work GOV.UK Verify is migrating from a VMWare based environment to AWS. This role requires extensive knowledge of both types of environment ensuring the migration optimises the services offered by AWS whilst minimising lock-in, in parallel with improving the architecture to enable resilience, rapid scaling, and ease of maintenance and change. Specialist role Technical Architect Expected Contract Length 1 Year Latest start date Monday 7 August 2017 Who Speclialist Work With working with the webops team, developers, delivery managers, product managers, Security operations and senior stakeholders What Specialists Work On Migration from VMWare-based IaaS to AWS ensuring resilience, scalability and maintainability of final outcome. Skills & Experience • strong systems development and architecture experience in diverse cloud environments, with good knowledge of open source technologies and testing • experience of modern infrastructures such as cloud native infrastructure, virtualisation technologies and virtual networking • experience of configuration management tools like puppet, ansible or chef • experience of operating a service, including monitoring, diagnosis and incident resolution • experience designing and implementing secure systems and a good understanding or experience of implementation and running of a PKI • experience scaling online services • ability to develop solution design documentation that is reusable and comprehensible for technical teams • understanding of how to prioritise work in a fast, customer centric, environment • understanding of agile environments, continual delivery techniques and devops cultures • understanding of how to influence senior management and communicate with both technical and non-technical audiences Nice to Haves an awareness of how to budget in an on-demand environment and an understanding of legal implications Work Location 10 Whitechapel High St, London E1 8DX Working Arrangments Normal hours 9 - 5.30am Monday to Friday. Expected to be on site a minimum of 3 days a week, using Slack and other channels to keep in communication with team when working remotely. Expected to attend stand-ups, retros ect. Contribute to describing and breaking down epics, provide documentation on technical solutions/decisions,creating presentations for stakeholders and providing other structured knowledge sharing opportunities. Security Clearance SC Additional T&Cs Cabinet Office Travel and Subsistence expense policy applies No. of Specialists to Evaluate 3 Cultural Fit Criteria • Commitment to excellence • Culture of taking responsibility for owning issues and resolving and problems. • Commitment to team working • Your approach to resolving technical and business risks or issues in a collaborative way that maximises productivity and business outcomes. • Your approach to transferring knowledge and experience to civil servants to support learning from this engagement. Evaluation Weighting Technical competence 65% Cultural fit 15% Price 20% Questions from Suppliers 1. Is this role in addition to the Outcomes Opportunity "WP1410: Dev Ops capability for Verify"? It seems to be describing the same project, or is this for a separate team? No. This is a replacement of WP1410 2. Maximum number of applications (candidates) we could submit One candidate 3. Date on which feedback would be provided for the applications submitted. Within 4 working days of the opportunity closing 4. Please could you confirm the IR35 Status of this role. Outside 5. May i know day rate for this opportunity? It is not mentioned on this advert. Can you please reply me at earliest? We are not setting day rate cap, all bids will be considered.