Lead DevOps Engineer

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Summary of the work This is an exciting time for this pivotal role at the MHRA. We are looking for an experienced Lead DevOps Engineer able to manage and build our DevOps platform. Specialist role Web operations engineer Expected Contract Length 6 Months with a possibility to extend Latest start date Wednesday 1 September 2021 Maximum Day Rate £749/day inside IR35 Who Speclialist Work With Will be reporting to Head of Engineering and working with Top Tier suppliers and internal project manager What Specialists Work On • Managing a team of engineers • Managing integration build and integration testing • Assist in embedding a DevOps culture in the organisation • Follow and document good development standards and processes • Manage DevOps tools such as code repositories and monitoring • Setup and maintaining environments • Automation: Building CI/CD pipelines and test automation • Support of user requests • Patching and updating systems • Transform technical requirements into DevOps processes • Build complex stories without additional support • Manage live test environments • Identify and resolve issues preventing delivery • Produce systems design • Be user focus Skills & Experience • GitHub repository • Kubernetes • Docker • Helm • Terraform • Ansible • Maven • NEXUS artefact repositories • Code analysis tools - SonarQube • Elastic Search • Log Stash • Kibana • Linux • Java 6 • C# Nice to Haves • GitHub Actions • Azure • AKS • Argo CD • Gradle • Prometheus • Grafana • Azure Monitor • Cypress • Selenium • Atlassian Jira Software • Visual Basic, PHP scripts, Appian low-code, Mulesoft integrations, JavaScript Work Location Mostly from home with ad-hoc occasional office meeting Working Arrangments Mostly work remotely and will be provided with Agency laptop No. of Specialists to Evaluate 3 Cultural Fit Criteria • be inclusive • collaborative • comfortable to ask questions • Being truthful and open • Creative self-starter • solution focused • able to demonstrate initiative • effectively deal with requirements ambiguity • develop pragmatic software solutions that realise business benefits Assessment Method • Reference • Interview • Scenario or test Evaluation Weighting Technical competence 50% Cultural fit 20% Price 30% Questions from Suppliers 1. 27 essential and nice-to-have skills will require a response in the region of 2,700 words in order to apply. From experience, this will deter the best talent available from applying – is there any way this can be shortened ? Some of these requirements can be grouped together to reduce the number of requirements. To make it easier for searching, we explicitly broke them down to individual pieces. For example, ELK was expanded to the following 3. Elastic Search, Log Stash and Kibana. 2. Please can you confirm the level of clearance required? BPSS is the minimum requirement. MHRA will also carry out additional checks. 3. Is there a current or preferred incumbent for this? If there is any then please let us know what are the key pain points? No. N/A. 4. Will you also consider SC eligible candidates and sponsor SC and DV for a candidate? The MHRA expect BPSS check to be completed before the start date and that this responsibility falls to the party representing the candidate 5. Is this requirement inside or outside of IR35? Inside IR35 6. The candidate is willing to go through Security clearance. Would the SC clearance be sponsored? The MHRA expect BPSS check to be completed before the start date and that this responsibility falls to the party representing the candidate