Senior DevOps support with on-call (DBA focused)

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Summary of the work Within the Infrastructure Product Group team (e.g. other DevOps Lead, DevOps and SecOps engineers, team manager). Support and maintain a cloud estate (AWS). Drive infrastructure optimisation and automation. Implement best practice and scripted management of cloud based databases (Redshift, Oracle, Aurora). Help individuals, teams and managers. Embed an agile culture. Specialist role Data engineer Expected Contract Length 1 year (12 months) Latest start date Monday 4 February 2019 Maximum Day Rate £925 / day Who Speclialist Work With The Infrastructure Product Group team, which consists of other DevOps Lead, DevOps engineers, team manager, and SecOps engineers. What Specialists Work On Senior DevOps engineer support - namely cloud database management and ETLs. Support & maintain a cloud estate (AWS), drive infrastructure optimisation and automation. Implement best practice & scripted management of cloud based databases (Redshift, Oracle, Aurora). Skills & Experience • SC cleared, or willing and capable to undergo SC clearance process • 3+ years RedHat Enterprise Linux experience, or RHCE certified RHEL7 • 3+ years enterprise production AWS experience, or AWS DevOps/SysOps Associate • 3+ years Chef/Ansible/Puppet scripting experience, or software • 2+ years experience with Hadoop cluster administration • 2+ years experience with AWS RDS administration • 2+ years experience with ETL scripting in Python (or other language) Nice to Haves • Proven experience of implementing cloud infrastructure best practices in relation to security, user access management, patterns, standards, etc. • Experience with security hardening of databases • Experience using dev tools (Git, Jenkins, Nexus) • Experience using monitoring tools (Splunk, DataDog, Qualys) • ITIL Foundation certified Work Location 12 Endeavour Square, Stratford, London, E20 1JN Working Arrangments 5 days in the office. A week's on-call duties (rota based) will be paid an additional 6th day. Security Clearance SC clearance required, or be able to undergo SC clearance No. of Specialists to Evaluate 10 Cultural Fit Criteria • Willing to take ownership of incidents, not only resolve them, but to prevent incidents in the future • Work as a team with our organisation and other suppliers • Knowledge share and provide on the job training to your colleagues • Collaborative and communicate to colleagues with respect • Positive attitude and supportive of a no-blame culture where the personal drive is all about continuous improvement Evaluation Weighting Technical competence 60% Cultural fit 20% Price 20% Questions from Suppliers 1. Is this a re-issue of the requirement that closed yesterday or a brand new opportunity ? This is a re-issue of the ‘Senior DevOps support with on-call (DBA focused)’ role, with the following specific amendments to the 'Technical Competence' section. They are:2+ years experience with Hadoop cluster administration- 2+ years experience with AWS RDS administration- 2+ years experience with ETL scripting in Python (or other language)There are no other amendments to the role requirement 2. If this is an amended repost of the earlier role, will candidates submitted to the previous post be marked by this criteria or do they need to be resubmitted to this post? Candidates will be marked by the amended criteria, once the deadline for the re-issued role has expired (11th December). No other amendments have been made to the role. Therefore, if you decide to provide candidates based upon the re-issued version of the role, please be mindful of the minor changes to this role (as outlined in the previous question response dated 4th December 2018).