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Notifications Service and ECMS BAU DevOps 2 (D)

Closing date for applications: 15/03/2022
OVERVIEW OF ROLE
Specialist role
 Developer
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.
Latest start date
 01/04/2022
Expected contract length
Location
 No specific location, for example they can work remotely
Organisation the work is for
 Department for Work and Pensions
Maximum day rate
 Please specify required day rate
ABOUT THE WORK
Early market engagement
Who the specialist will work with
 You will be working with an existing team of DevOps and Developers in the Digital Channels PDU.
What the specialist will 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.
WORK SETUP
Address where the work will take place
 Remote or travel to Digital hubs if and when required.
Working arrangements
 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
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Additional terms and conditions
EVALUATION CRITERIA
How many 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?
Assessment methods
Evaluation weighting
 Technical competence 40% Cultural fit 10% Price 50%
EXPERIENCE
Essential skills and 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-have skills and experience
  • 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
EXPRESS INTEREST
Closing date for applications: 15/03/2022

Notifications Service and ECMS BAU DevOps 2 (D)

Closing date for applications: 15/03/2022


Specialist role:

Developer

Location:

No specific location, for example they can work remotely

Organisation:

Department for Work and Pensions

Maximum day rate:

Please specify required day rate
FULL DETAILS / EXPRESS INTEREST HERE
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