Overview

Specialist role Web operations engineer

Summary of the work  

ONS Digital is continuing to improve its public facing digital products following the launch of the new website earlier this year. This role will work alongside the existing team to work on an ambitious roadmap to improve the scalability, stability and monitoring of the platform.

Latest start date 12/09/2016

Expected contract length 6 months

Region Wales

Organisation the work is for Office for National Statistics

About the work

Who the specialist will work with 

A multi-disciplinary agile team including UX designer, user researcher, front-end developer, back-end developer, content designer, tech arch, delivery manager and service manager

What the specialist will work on 

The WebOps Engineer will work on an ambitious project to migrate the ONS Dissemination platform to a PaaS environment and in the process will work with the Tech Lead and colleagues to improve our build processes, monitoring, automated testing and scaling.

Work setup

Address where the work will take place Newport, South Wales

Working arrangements Work will be on-site in Newport (Mon-Fri) - there is the potential for work from home days by agreement with Service Manager,

Security clearance Disclosure Scotland security vetting.

Skills and experience

Essential skills and experience 

• Collaborating closely with colleagues in order to meet users’ needs
• Debugging a complex, multi-server service in a high availability environment
• Using languages such as Go and Java within an existing, production codebase
• Using configuration management tools such Ansible
• Experience of commodity cloud providers such as AWS, GCE, Azure, etc and their offering. Ideally more than one.
• Interested in DevOps, and infrastructure as code.
• Understand the concept of a Platform as a Service (PaaS)
• Familiarity with Docker
• Understanding of application deployment strategies, continuous integration and version control (git, svn, bzr, mercurial)
• Rigorous approach to software development (TDD, code review, pairing)
• Ability to develop tooling for automation and provisioning.
• Knowledge and experience of Jenkins.
• Knowledge and experience of Kafka.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.