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DevOps support (focused on DBA)

Closing date for applications: 11/02/2019
OVERVIEW OF ROLE
Specialist role
 Developer
Summary of the work
 Support and maintain a collection of database technologies in the cloud estate (AWS). Take personal responsibility for driving cloud database usage optimisation and administration automation aligned to best practices.
Latest start date
 18/02/2019
Expected contract length
 12 months
Location
 London
Organisation the work is for
 The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA)
Maximum day rate
 £875 per day (ex VAT) - outside IR35
ABOUT THE WORK
Early market engagement
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Who the specialist will work with
 Within the Infrastructure Product Group team, which consists of other DevOps Lead, DevOps engineers, team manager, and SecOps engineers.
What the specialist will work on
 1. Support and maintain a cloud estate (AWS) and drive infrastructure optimisation and automation around the management of databases. 2. Responsible for the creation and management of all database provisioning scripts (Oracle RDS, Aurora, Redshift, Hadoop/Cloudera) 3. Responsible for deep technical troubleshooting of database issues in the cloud 4. Support and manage existing Linux server estate
WORK SETUP
Address where the work will take place
 12 Endeavour Square, Stratford, London E20 1JN
Working arrangements
 5 days in the office. A week's on-call duties (rota based) will be paid an additional 6th day.
Security clearance
 SC cleared, or willing to undergo clearance procedure while on site
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Additional terms and conditions
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EVALUATION CRITERIA
How many 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 part of a team within our organisation and with 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
Assessment methods
 Work history
Evaluation weighting
 Technical competence 70% Cultural fit 10% Price 20%
EXPERIENCE
Essential skills and experience
  • 3+ years proven experience supporting enterprise AWS environments. (Architect, Design, Provision, Setup Network Monitoring)
  • AWS DevOps/SysOps certified
  • 3+ years hands on experience with Chef/Ansible/Puppet scripting - Provide specific examples
  • 2+ years proven experience in a DevOps DBA related role - Reflected in work history
  • 2+ years experience building and managing Cloudera deployments (or on-premise Hadoop clusters)
Nice-to-have skills and experience
  • 2+ years experience using dev tools (Git, Jenkins, Nexus) - Provide specific examples,
  • 2+ years experience using monitoring tools (Splunk, DataDog, Qualys)
EXPRESS INTEREST
Closing date for applications: 11/02/2019

DevOps support (focused on DBA)

Closing date for applications: 11/02/2019


Specialist role:

Developer

Location:

London

Organisation:

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA)

Maximum day rate:

£875 per day (ex VAT) - outside IR35
FULL DETAILS / EXPRESS INTEREST HERE
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