Practitioner - Senior Dev Ops Engineer.

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Summary of the work The specialist will need to be a highly experienced (Practitioner level) Senior Dev Ops Engineer. Managing day to day support, technical guidance, creating a DevOps culture and implementing automation best practices. Upholding DWP values and working within Government Digital Standards. Specialist role Developer Expected Contract Length 6 months with an optional extension period of up to 6 weeks. Latest start date Monday 6 December 2021 Maximum Day Rate Up to £675 per day. Standard 8 hour working day, includes expenses to base location agreed with DWP . This role is Inside IR35. Who Speclialist Work With The resource will work with the existing DWP BPS Technical Service environment team. This team has a lead Technical Delivery Manager and 6 Dev Ops and is supported by DWP technical services. What Specialists Work On Senior Lead a DevOps Engineering team providing support, technical guidance, creating a DevOps culture and implementing automation best practices. This will include coaching, mentoring and supporting your team members, taking responsibility for their decision-making and their professional development. • Responsible for large blocks of work, employees in varied disciplines and with a wide span of leadership, breaking down user stories into tasks. • Design and manage the tactics for building reusable libraries, templates and services and own the development of medium-long term strategies for product lines within your Functional and Professional Communities Skills & Experience • Provide experience of working in a large scale organisation and/or Public Sector within dev ops area especially AWS utilising various tools and packages such as Ansible, Puppet (giving worked examples) • Demonstrate 3+ years in a practical DevOps role, with examples of assignments and key outcomes • Confirm Expert level AWS infrastructure build and operate experience, with examples of assignments and key outcomes • Demonstrable experience building secure solutions AWS - state solutions which were built • Demonstrate practical experience with RedHat Linux, shared worked examples of experience and successful outcomes • Demonstrate experience of managing infrastructure as code, catering for multiple environment differences, using Puppet, Ansible within a government organisation - share key objectives and goals reached • Demonstrable experience delivering CI/CD pipelines - state involvement in design/build/maintenance with examples • Demonstrate mentoring colleagues in automation, security, and reliability, within a DevOps context - explain a scenario and key outcome • Show experience of managing infrastructure as code, catering for multiple environment differences - state deployments which have been worked on, with examples Nice to Haves Demonstrate they have worked in regulated and controlled government environments - explain and give examples of governance structures and adherence to such Work Location North East - Longbenton, Newcastle. North West - Peel Park, Blackpool. Working Arrangments Specialist will work 5 working days per work remotely until further notice as per current COVID working conditions. Security Clearance All suppliers must BPSS cleared and On-Shore. Additional T&Cs It is essential that the Department (DWP) holds copies of and rights to all source code developed and accompanying intellectual property rights to the code to develop further or make changes as it sees fit. No. of Specialists to Evaluate 3 Cultural Fit Criteria • Work well as the lead of a team and keep the team motivated to perform well. • Transfer knowledge gained through the team and be willing to share experiences across the wider department. • Be transparent and collaborative when making decisions • Is accountable and takes responsibility for their work • Can work with colleagues with little or no technical knowledge Assessment Method • Reference • Interview Evaluation Weighting Technical competence 70% Cultural fit 5% Price 25% Questions from Suppliers No questions have been answered yet.