Web Ops Specialist

Overview

Specialist role Web operations engineer

Summary of the work Web Ops Specialist

Latest start date 03/10/2016

Expected contract length Up to 2 years. The initial SoW will be for 30 days followed by further more detailed SoW

Region London

Organisation the work is for The Ministry of Justice - Digital

About the work

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.

Work setup

Address where the work will take place London 

Working arrangements Work will be on-site in London. Mon - Fri.

Security clearance BPSS is required for all personnel.

Skills and experience

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.
  

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