Description
SC Cleared PaaS WebOps Specialist£, London, 6 Months
Our government client currently require a WebOps Specialist to provide additional development and operational input to the existing team to deliver an excellent user experience. The requirement includes providing skills transfer to public servants on the team.
What the Specialist will work on
1. Development of the Government PaaS platform including tools
2. Operational input to the existing team to deliver an excellent user experience
3. Support of platform including out of hours support of production platform
4. Providing skills transfer to public servants on the team.
Essential Skills
*Experience collaborating closely with colleagues in order to meet users' needs
*Experience debugging a complex, multi-server service in a high availability production environment. Please give examples.
*Experience using several languages such as Ruby, Python, Go, and Java within an existing, production codebase
*Experience of developing/operating a PaaS with Cloudfoundry and BOSH and using in a production environment. Please give examples.
*Experience of commodity cloud providers such as AWS in a production system. Please give examples.
*Experience administering common open source databases like Postgres, MongoDB, Redis etc. in a production environment. Please give examples.
*Using Terraform as a configuration management tool in a complex production environment.
*Please give an example of using continuous integration and version control (e.g. using git) to create an application deployment workflow to a production environment,
*Evidence/examples of a rigorous approach to software development (TDD, code review, pairing)
*Experience and ability to develop tooling for automation and provisioning. Please give examples.
Nice to Have
*Proven interest in DevOps, and infrastructure as code.
*Experience of deploying a monitoring solution such as Datadog. Please give an example.
*Experience of setting up and using a continuous delivery and deployment pipeline using Concourse, in a production environment. Please give examples.
*Experience of the process of adding features to open source software and the approach to documentation.
*Experience supporting a production environment and supporting technical customers/users.
*Experience of working in multiple agile teams, please give examples.
*Experience of using other CM tools such as such as Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Salt, in a production environment. Please give examples.
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