SysOps Engineer, Passport Office, up to £600/day

SYS OPS ENGINEER - PASSPORT OFFICE

Role / Reference: SysOps Engineer / DOS10788

Summary of Role: Specialist will be responsible for managing the build and deployment of the project, through all environments. They will contribute to key components and shared common services; undertake cross-functional engineering projects, working in small teams with other engineers in different knowledge spheres, building supportable, sustainable and reliable services.

Client: Home Office – Her Majesty’s Passport Office

Assignment Location: Her Majesty's Passport Office, based in Victoria, Westminster and Croydon, with occasional travel across the UK.

Rate: £520 - £600 /day

Contract Length:  Initial 6 months, further period up to 12 months depending on needs and performance.

Application Process: Our client does not use the traditional method of assessing CVs submitted. You must meet each of the Essential Skills and Experience in order to apply for this specific role. If you are selected to go to the next stage, you must be willing to complete an application form detailing how your skills and experience meet each of the Essential/Desirable Skills and Experience in the bulleted lists below.

Deadline for submissions: 15/10/19 at 12.00

Security Clearance Required: DV (Developed Vetting) Clearance is required for this role. Candidate can start with SC clearance and will upgrade to DV in post. Candidates require Active SC/DV clearance or the willingness to go through clearance before starting on site. Candidates with current clearance will be preferred.

Required Start Date: 11/11/19 (latest start date)

Working Arrangements: We expect the specialist to work collaboratively with existing in-house project teams that are transforming the HMPO business processes/applications.
Service design and development must align with the HM Passport Office strategic technical architecture and technologies.
Work is based in London and will involve the supplier being on site 5 days per week to work collaboratively with HMPO teams.
Travel to regional sites to be agreed, expenses incurred from travel outside of the M25/Greater London will be subject to H.M. Passport Office Travel and Subsistence Policy.

Role

SysOps Engineer skills required to build development environment, configure infrastructure.
System provisioning & automation, monitoring, metrics, scalability, security and hardening.
Overall responsibility for the projects Linux infrastructure in relation to common standards.
Responsible for the health and upkeep of the critical services. Active on remediating any knowledge gaps between Developers and Operations Engineers. Automation of Linux, providing frictionless access to services to the rest of the Engineering organisation. Working alongside other engineers, providing the code, services and knowledge to deliver a smooth automation process from the start to the end of the project lifecycle. Working within security architecture guidelines.

Who you will work with: Specialist will be part of Public Protection Directorate Project team working closely with the Technical Lead. We expect the specialist to work collaboratively with existing in house project teams that are transforming the HMPO business processes/applications.

Essential Skills & Experience

• Knowledge and experience of installation and management of hardware (servers, storage, routers etc.).
• Knowledge of and experience with Docker, Postgres, and installation and management containers.
• Knowledge of and experience with Git, Gitlab.
• Experience of setting up secured infrastructure within AWS (EC2s), RDS, VPCs, Subnets, Security Group, VPN Access, 2FA.
• Experience of setting up the CI/CD pipeline within AWS.
• Reasonable fluency in at least one of: python, go, BASH.
• Knowledge of IDS, HIDS, NIDS and security hardening.
• Experience and knowledge of GNU/Linux.
• Experience of configuration management tools (Puppet/Ansible).
• Experience of designing and building the infrastructure in a data centre.

Desirable Skills & Experience

• Experience of Windows server installation, management, patching, domain controller and HyperV.
• Experience of VMware, creating, deploying virtual machines via VMware on bare metal. Installing and setup Windows and Ubuntu virtual machines.
• Experience deploying, profiling, and debugging distributed systems.
• Ability to operate in small cross-functional engineering teams to build supportable, sustainable, and reliable services.
• Experience of IP Networking and physical networks.
• Experience of configuring and managing ELK.
• Fluent in English and have good communication skills in order to discuss high level requirements with stakeholders, as well as have low level technical discussions as required.
• Experience of installing, patching, managing Postgresql database clusters.
• Have existing valid SC/DV clearance.

Cultural Skills & Experience

• Work well in a team within our organisation.
• Mentor members of the team.
• Be transparent and collaborative when making decisions.
• Have a flexible attitude and temperament.
• Have a no-blame culture and encourage people to learn from their mistakes.
• Must have experience working within a Scrum team.

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