Home Office - Her Majesty’s Passport Office - Systems Engineer

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Who Speclialist Work With Specialist will be part of Public Protection Directorate Project team working closely with the Technical Lead. We expect the specialist to work collaboratively with existing in house project teams that are transforming the HMPO business processes/applications. What Specialists Work On Build Dev environment, configure infrastructure so system engineer skills required. System provisioning & automation, monitoring, metrics, scalability, security and hardening. Overall responsibility for the projects Linux infrastructure in relation to common standards. Responsible for the health and upkeep of the critical services. Active on remediating any knowledge gaps between Developers and Operations Engineers. Automation of Linux, providing frictionless access to services to the rest of the Engineering organisation. Working alongside other engineers, providing the code, services and knowledge to deliver a smooth automation process from the start to the end of the project lifecycle. Working within security architecture guidelines. Where the Work Takes Place Her Majesty's Passport Office, based in Victoria, Westminster and Croydon, with occasional travel across the UK. Early Market Engagement Working Arrangements We expect the specialist to work collaboratively with existing in house project teams that are transforming the HMPO business processes/applications. Service design and development must align with the HM Passport Office strategic technical architecture and technologies Work is based in London and will involve the supplier being on site 5 days per week to work collaboratively with HMPO teams. Travel to regional sites to be agreed, expenses incurred from travel outside of the M25/Greater London will be subject to H.M. Passport Office Travel and Subsistence Policy. Work Location Her Majesty's Passport Office, based in Victoria, Westminster and Croydon, with occasional travel across the UK. Security Clearance DV Clearance is required. HM Passport Office will support the clearance process. Additional T&Cs Breakpoints to assess progress and quality will be set by mutual agreement. We expect this engagement to be outside IR35; however status is assessed on a case-by-case basis. Standard Government Terms and Conditions for Expenses as covered in the DOS Contract. Skills & Experience Knowledge and experience of installation and management of hardware (servers, storage, routers etc.) Knowledge of and experience with Docker, Postgres, and installation and management of the CoreOS Knowledge of and experience with Git, Github, Gitlab Knowledge of and experience with nginx, HAProxy, Unicorn Reasonable fluency in at least one of: python, go, BASH Knowledge of HIDS, NIDS and security hardening Deep knowledge of GNU/Linux Experience of IP Networking and physical networks Experience of designing and building the infrastructure in a data centre. Nice to Haves Experience deploying, profiling, and debugging distributed systems Ability to operate in small cross-functional engineering teams to build supportable, sustainable, and reliable services Solid understanding of CI and build engineering Understanding of cloud concepts Fluent in English and have good communication skills in order to discuss high level requirements with stakeholders, as well as have low level technical discussions as required. Knowledge of configuration management tools (Puppet/Ansible) SkyDNS / Bi Quay.io / Artifactory Experience of configuring and managing ELK Ceph / Glusterfs CoreOS: Fleet / Etcd / Flannel / RKT SysDig / Graphite / Prometheus HAProxy Ruby, Go SQL / NO-SQL DB’s Have existing, valid DV No. of Specialists to Evaluate 5 Cultural Fit Criteria Work well in a team within our organisation. Mentor members of the team. Be transparent and collaborative when making decisions. Have a flexible attitude and temperament. Have a no-blame culture and encourage people to learn from their mistakes. They must have experience working within a Scrum team. Assessment Method Evaluation Weighting Technical competence 60% Cultural fit 15% Price 25% Questions from Suppliers Budget range