Government Digital Service, GOV.UK Verify

WP1424 Technical Architect Specialist for GOV.UK Verify

11 Incomplete applications

9 SME, 2 large

15 SME, 4 large

Specialist role: Technical Architect
Summary of the work: GOV.UK Verify is migrating from a VMWare based environment to AWS. This role requires extensive knowledge of both types of environment ensuring the migration optimises the services offered by AWS whilst minimising lock-in, in parallel with improving the architecture to enable resilience, rapid scaling, and ease of maintenance and change.
Latest start date: Monday 7 August 2017
Expected contract length: 1 Year
Location: London
Organisation the work is for: Government Digital Service, GOV.UK Verify
Maximum day rate

Early market engagement
Who the specialist will work with: working with the webops team, developers, delivery managers, product managers, Security operations and senior stakeholders
What the specialist will work on: Migration from VMWare-based IaaS to AWS ensuring resilience, scalability and maintainability of final outcome.

Address where the work will take place: 10 Whitechapel High St, London E1 8DX
Working arrangements: Normal hours 9 - 5.30am Monday to Friday. Expected to be on site a minimum of 3 days a week, using Slack and other channels to keep in communication with team when working remotely. Expected to attend stand-ups, retros ect. Contribute to describing and breaking down epics, provide documentation on technical solutions/decisions,creating presentations for stakeholders and providing other structured knowledge sharing opportunities.
Security clearance: SC

Additional terms and conditions: Cabinet Office Travel and Subsistence expense policy applies

Buyers will use the essential and nice-to-have skills and experience to help them evaluate suppliers’ technical competence.

Essential skills and experience: strong systems development and architecture experience in diverse cloud environments, with good knowledge of open source technologies and testing

experience of modern infrastructures such as cloud native infrastructure, virtualisation technologies and virtual networking

experience of configuration management tools like puppet, ansible or chef

experience of operating a service, including monitoring, diagnosis and incident resolution

experience designing and implementing secure systems and a good understanding or experience of implementation and running of a PKI

experience scaling online services

ability to develop solution design documentation that is reusable and comprehensible for technical teams

understanding of how to prioritise work in a fast, customer centric, environment

understanding of agile environments, continual delivery techniques and devops cultures

understanding of how to influence senior management and communicate with both technical and non-technical audiences
Nice-to-have skills and experience: an awareness of how to budget in an on-demand environment and an understanding of legal implications

How many specialists to evaluate

Cultural fit criteria

Commitment to excellence
Culture of taking responsibility for owning issues and resolving and problems.
Commitment to team working
Your approach to resolving technical and business risks or issues in a collaborative way that maximises productivity and business outcomes.
Your approach to transferring knowledge and experience to civil servants to support learning from this engagement.

Assessment methods

Evaluation weighting

Technical competence

65%

Cultural fit

15%

Price

20%

1. Is this role in addition to the Outcomes Opportunity "WP1410: Dev Ops capability for Verify"? It seems to be describing the same project, or is this for a separate team?: No. This is a replacement of WP1410
2. Maximum number of applications (candidates) we could submit: One candidate
3. Date on which feedback would be provided for the applications submitted.: Within 4 working days of the opportunity closing
4. Please could you confirm the IR35 Status of this role.: Outside
5. May i know day rate for this opportunity? It is not mentioned on this advert. Can you please reply me at earliest?: We are not setting day rate cap, all bids will be considered.