Description
Latest start date
Expected contract length Up to 2 years. The initial SoW will be for 30 days followed by further more detailed SoW
Region London
Public Sector
Who the specialist will work with
The Web Ops Specialist will work closely with Delivery manager and fellow Web Ops engineers. The Web Ops team consists of approximately 9 Development Ops engineers, a product manager and a delivery manager.
What the specialist will work on
The Web Ops Specialist will work closely with development team to ensure continuous delivery capabilities.
Working arrangements Work will be on-site in London. Mon - Fri.
Security clearance BPSS is required for all personnel.
Essential skills and experience
Demonstrable multidisciplinary expert who has a deep understanding of networks, Firewalls, load-balancing, high availability, disaster recovery, TCP &UDP services in a virtualised and/or cloud environment
Experience of Cloud Hosting (Amazon AWS)
Experience in "0" downtime deploy strategies, containerisation (Docker)
Experience of Development backgrounds (including Python)
Knowledge and experience of software build and deploy pipelines (Jenkins)
Knowledge and experience of Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana
Understanding of SaltStack
In depth knowledge of AWS, including: VPC, EC2, RDS, Cloudformation, IAM, AMIs, CLI/API
In depth knowledge of linux
Knowledge of the ELK stack.
Knowledge of Elastic Search.
Knowledge of rails and django.
Knowledge of Boto AWS API.
Able to architect highly available and resilient cloud architectures
Understanding of how to secure complex could platforms.
Customising amazon AMIs.
Experience with Boto AWS API
Experience working within Agile Teams.
Must provide detail work history (using the standard work history template) by the closing date and time.
Nice-to-have skills and experience
Work on migration of Legacy service to public cloud
Work with senior collegues
Excellent collaborations skills and working in a team
Experience with Azure.