Trainee Information System Development - Assessments and New Core - Senior Dev Ops Engineer

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Summary of the work Developing and maintaining the Cloud Infrastructure and DevOps Platforms and Processes used by TIS Specialist role Developer Expected Contract Length The contract will be for up to six months with one month SOWs Latest start date By the end of March Who Speclialist Work With HEE TIS Team and Digital partner (Transform) as part of Agile Scrum What Specialists Work On Trainee Information System Cloud Infrastructure and DevOps platforms and processes Skills & Experience • Have extensive Microsoft Azure experience including Azure Portal, Virtual Networking and network security groups • Have experience of Docker including orchestration & writing/inspecting Docker and Docker Compose files • Have experience of Ansible automation framework • Evidence experience on high availability application deployments including cross-fault domain deployments, availability sets and load balancing • Jenkins CI server configuration and maintenance Nice to Haves • Show experience of Geo-redundant storage • Demonstrate Linux system administration • Can evidence scripting language experience, Python preferred. • Evidence Infosec & penetration testing experience • Prove Open Source experience including configuring and deploying open source products • Demonstrate experience of Agile and Scrum working approaches Work Location HEE – Stewart House, Russell Square, WC1N 5DN and Engine Partners, 60, Gt Portland St,London, W1W 7RT Working Arrangments Onsite as part of the Agile Team No. of Specialists to Evaluate 4 Cultural Fit Criteria • Show appreciation of NHS Mission and Aims • Work as a team with HEE and other suppliers • Be transparent and collaborative when making decisions • Have a no-blame culture and encourage people to learn from their mistakes • Take responsibility for their work • Share knowledge and experience with other team members Evaluation Weighting Technical competence 50% Cultural fit 20% Price 30% Questions from Suppliers 1. Where, and more importantly, when do I submit my shortlisting evidence? HEE has set up an email address (DOSprocurement@nhs.net) for supplier evidence. Bidders are required to apply to the DOS Portal in the usual way and also to send to the HEE team, by the closing date of this application (23:59 on 7 February) their shortlisting evidence to DOSprocurement@nhs.net. Later responses will not be considered. 2. Does the evidence have to be in any specific format? Provide the evidence in CV style, no more than 3 or 4 pages, as PDF with a fixed format title “Role: Snr Dev Ops - supplier’s name – individual’s name” Responses in any other form will not be considered. The CV must evidence the skills, experience and cultural criteria. Applications not to this format will not be considered. The email subject title should also have the "“Role: "Snr Dev Ops" - supplier’s name – individual’s name” format. All responses should be 'self contained'. 3. Can bidders provide attachments or links within a CV? No, any responses should be 'self contained'. Please do not include any 'embedded' or 'attached' objects within the CV. They will not be opened or evaluated. 4. We have received questions asking us to confirm the email box address for CVs. The mailbox "DOSprocurement@nhs.net" returns "Address not found" responses. hee.dosprocurement@nhs.net This is the correct email box address for CVs. The group email box that we requested can be accessed at the above address. The original formatting we envisaged did not work. Please use all lower case characters as above. We have tested the hee.dosprocurement@nhs.net address from a number of email domains without further failures. Thank you for detecting and reporting this issue so early in the process. 5. We have received questions asking for the maximum day rate and budget details. We decided not to set a maximum day rate or disclose our budget constraints. We seek excellent value for money and affordability. 6. As part of the cultural fit criteria you ask for "Show appreciation of NHS Mission and Aims". Does this mean, that whilst we might get through the first "tick box" assessment stage, if our consultant hasn't had experience of working within the NHS, that they are not going to be considered? Cultural fit criteria contribute to the evaluation scoring, they are not ‘essential’ criteria 7. Is there a reason the Digital Partner (Transform) can't provide these resources? No reason known to HEE. This requirement is not in the scope of the existing contract. The roles are out for competition and all framework suppliers, including Transform’s parent company, are invited to bid. 8. Was there any security clearance requirement for these 4 new postings at all? No 9. How can we see a recording of the Q and A session held on 26 January? A link to the WebEx recording has been placed on the Sharepoint instance to which a link is provided in the Question and Answer session details posted on the suppliers' portal.