Notifications Service and ECMS BAU DevOps

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Summary of the work Contribute to the overall DevOps process. Responsible for the code and services your teams produce and administer. Break-down user stories into tasks. Design/build end to end GitLab/Ansible pipeline deploy/test enterprise grade content storage components and solutions. Design/manage the tactics for building reusable libraries, templates and services. Specialist role Developer Latest start date Thursday 31 March 2022 Who Speclialist Work With You will be working with an existing team of DevOps and Developers in the Digital Channels PDU. What Specialists Work On The DevOps Engineer will support the overall DevOps process along with setting the strategies for products and the wider community within the Notifications and ECMS BAU Projects. Skills & Experience • Be able to produce CI/CD pipelines, ideally in GitLab CI/CD • Have experience in at least one primarily cloud level IaC language (I.e. Terraform) • Have experience in at least one primarily system level IaC language (i.e. Ansible, Terraform, Puppet) • Be able to produce scripts in at least one general purpose language (Python, Perl, Bash etc) • Have a working knowledge of AWS tools • Have an awareness of Linux systems administration • Have Strong problem solving and reverse engineering skills • •Have an awareness of software development processes Nice to Haves • Have experience in developing monitoring/alerting stacks in Prometheus • Be able to produce Grafana dashboards • Have prior development or infrastructure engineering experience • Knowledge of network infrastructure • Have experience of supporting live systems Work Location Remote or travel to Digital hubs if and when required. Working Arrangments The expectation for DWP staff is to work from DWP offices for 40% of the time. Currently the Developers & DevOps teams are working remotely. This is being reviewed as we move into a post COVID era. The individual will be working to DWP Security and DWP Engineering standards, this ensures that all staff adhere to best practices and quickly learn DWP Digital practices. Security Clearance SC Cleared No. of Specialists to Evaluate 5 Cultural Fit Criteria • Open, honest and forthcoming about challenges and mistakes • Communicative and forthcoming with progress on work • Takes responsibility and ownership of assigned items • Support people of all grade to develop by sharing knowledge • Challenges and asks questions about approaches to work • Describe how your organisation would perform the contract to ensure staff mental health, is promoted, and how you would monitor and measure this? • Describe how your organisation would perform the contract to encourage increased representation of Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic representation in the workforce, and how you would measure this? Evaluation Weighting Technical competence 40% Cultural fit 10% Price 50% Questions from Suppliers 1. Is this inside IR35? Yes, as this is a specialist resource requirement, it will be in-scope of IR35. 2. 1. Do you consider candidates willing to go through SC Clearance and you will support the process? or you expect SC Cleared candidates only?2. How long is the contract duration?3. Any budget/ day rate indication please? 1. SC Cleared candidates only please.2. 12 - 18 months3. We decline to answer. 3. What does ECMS stand for? Enterprise Content Management System