Systems Engineer / Web operations engineer

Overview

Specialist role - Web operations engineer

Summary of the work

We're looking for a Senior Systems Engineer (DevOps) to join the GOV.UK Pay team at GDS. You'll be working in a multi disciplinary agile team to support our already existing specialists to finish the required backlog for our payments platform to become PCI compliant. Ideal supplier can start ASAP.

Latest start date -  1/7/2016

Expected contract length -  Max 6 months with review after 3months

Region - London

About the work

Who the specialist will work with

Front & back end developers, technical architect, user researchers, content designers, product managers, user support, delivery managers

What the specialist will work on

Helping our already established webops teams to tackle our outstanding backlog required for the GOV.UK Pay platform to become PCI compliant

Work setup

Address where the work will take place - London 

Working arrangements

Monday to Friday 7.5 hours per day + lunch time Must start work by 09:45 and not end before 16:00 Mainly based from our office in Holborn, with opportunities to work from home part time

Security clearance - Minimum Baseline Personnel Security Standard

Essential skills and experience

• Collaborating closely with colleagues in order to meet users’ needs 
• Debugging a complex, multi-server service in a high availability environment 
• Understanding of application deployment strategies, continuous integration and version control 
• Comfortable with automated testing 
• Building and configuring new server platforms and the automated tooling to do so
• Familiarity with network protocols – TCP/IP, HTTP, TLS, etc 
• Deploying and operating applications developed in Java, node.js in a production environment 
• Using configuration management tools such as Puppet, Chef, Ansible 
• Administering PostgreSQL
• Experience of AWS (EC2 and RDS), delivering a complex web application stack 

Nice-to-have skills and experience

• Experience working on a PCI accredited environment 
• Experience operating Docker in a production environment 
• Experience with modsecurity 

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.