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Practitioner – Senior Dev Ops Engineer (D)

Closing date for applications: 19/10/2021
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 leadership and guidance, creating a DevOps culture and implementing automation best practices. Upholding DWP values and working within Government Digital Standards.
Latest start date
 15/11/2021
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 specialist will work with the existing DWP BPS Technical Service Environment team.
What the specialist will work on
 Senior Lead a DevOps Engineering team providing support, technical leadership and guidance, creating a DevOps culture and implementing automation best practices. This will include coaching, mentoring and supporting your team, 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 week remotely until further notice. The specialist will be required to be online between the hours of 8:00AM - 17:00PM.
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
  • Demonstrate experience of working in a large scale organisation and/or Government or Public Sector within dev ops area especially AWS utilising various tools and packages such as Ansible, Puppet
  • 3+ years in a practical DevOps role
  • Expert level AWS infrastructure build and operate experience
  • Demonstrable experience building secure solutions AWS
  • Experience building secure solutions using Hashicorp tooling: Terraform
  • Can demonstrate practical experience with RedHat Linux
  • xperience of managing infrastructure as code, catering for multiple environment differences, using Puppet, Ansible
  • Demonstrable experience of using configuration management in team environments (eg, git, GitLab)
  • Demonstrable experience delivering CI/CD pipelines
  • Able to demonstrate mentoring colleagues in automation, security, and reliability, within a DevOps context
  • Can demonstrate a firm grasp of DevOps and Agile methodologies
  • Experience of managing infrastructure as code, catering for multiple environment differences
Nice-to-have skills and experience
  • Demonstrable experience of Red Hat Linux System Administration
  • Worked in an Agile driven environment
  • Able to demonstrate they have worked in regulated and controlled government environments
EXPRESS INTEREST
Closing date for applications: 19/10/2021

Practitioner – Senior Dev Ops Engineer (D)

Closing date for applications: 19/10/2021


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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