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Practitioner – Senior Dev Ops Engineer (D)

Closing date for applications: 11/01/2022
OVERVIEW OF ROLE
Specialist role
 Developer
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.
Latest start date
 31/01/2022
Expected contract length
 6 months with an optional extension period of up to 6 weeks.
Location
 No specific location, for example they can work remotely
Organisation the work is for
 Department for work and Pensions (DWP Digital)
Maximum day rate
 £560
ABOUT THE WORK
Early market engagement
Who the specialist will 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 the specialist will 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
WORK SETUP
Address where the work will take place
 North East - Longbenton, Newcastle. North West - Peel Park, Blackpool.
Working arrangements
 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 INFORMATION
Additional terms and conditions
 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.
EVALUATION CRITERIA
How many 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 methods
Evaluation weighting
 Technical competence 70% Cultural fit 5% Price 25%
EXPERIENCE
Essential skills and 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-have skills and experience
  • Demonstrate they have worked in regulated and controlled government environments - explain and give examples of governance structures and adherence to such
EXPRESS INTEREST
Closing date for applications: 11/01/2022

Practitioner – Senior Dev Ops Engineer (D)

Closing date for applications: 11/01/2022


Specialist role:

Developer

Location:

No specific location, for example they can work remotely

Organisation:

Department for work and Pensions (DWP Digital)

Maximum day rate:

£560
FULL DETAILS / EXPRESS INTEREST HERE
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