Daily rate: £612 Inside IR35

Duration: 6months with possible extension

Location: 5 days/w onsite; full time onsite

Clearance: active SC clearance

Ideal Candidates will demonstrate:

• Experience working with many teams especially security would be beneficial.
• Solid infrastructure design experience for on-prem environments to implement or migrate applications and databases.
• Have experience with hybrid designs between on-premise and cloud
• Solid experience in a range of technologies and be able to make assessments as to what is best to be used for the projects and the organisation. As well as suggest and develop innovative approaches within constrained projects and environments.
• Strong experience in software development change/release management processes and technical governance to fully understand the typical life cycle and maintenance of live systems.
• Ability to work with containerization platforms such as Kubernetes, PKS, Docker; provisioning software including Ansible, Terraform, YAML; and application/infrastructure/data performance analysis and monitoring.
• Experience of functional and non-functional testing.
• Experience with automated deployment of applications, databases and infrastructure.
• Understanding of the government digital service (GDS) manual and standards across Discovery/Alpha/Beta/Live phases.
• Understanding of SaaS, PaaS, IaaS technologies, and the implications of their use compared with bespoke development.
• Being able to provide training, support, and mentoring to the wider business.
• Knowledge of how to ensure that risks associated with deployment are adequately understood and documented.

Desirable Skills & Experience:

• Worked as part of a system support team managing live systems and triaging & resolving incidents to resolution, including management of known defects and issues.
• Worked as part of a multi-disciplinary project team.
• Experience with Terraform and YAML to deploy on-prem/cloud infrastructure.
• Experience with automation tools to build and deploy containerized applications.
• Experience implementing effective instrumentation to monitor applications.
• Experience implementing SAST and DAST tooling in deployment pipelines like Trivvy and SonarQube.
• Experience with on-prem DevOps tooling.