Open since Jun 2026
Systems Engineer / Web operations engineer
AI Summary
A Senior Systems Engineer (DevOps) will join the GOV.UK Pay team to support web operations, tackle the PCI compliance backlog, and deploy and operate a complex web application stack in a high-availability environment.
About this role
Overview
Specialist role - Web operations engineer
Summary of the work
We're looking for a Senior Systems Engineer (DevOps) to join the GOV.UK Pay team at GDS. You'll be working in a multi disciplinary agile team to support our already existing specialists to finish the required backlog for our payments platform to become PCI compliant. Ideal supplier can start ASAP.
Latest start date - 1/7/2016
Expected contract length - Max 6 months with review after 3months
Region - London
About the work
Who the specialist will work with
Front & back end developers, technical architect, user researchers, content designers, product managers, user support, delivery managers
What the specialist will work on
Helping our already established webops teams to tackle our outstanding backlog required for the GOV.UK Pay platform to become PCI compliant
Work setup
Address where the work will take place - London
Working arrangements
Monday to Friday 7.5 hours per day + lunch time Must start work by 09:45 and not end before 16:00 Mainly based from our office in Holborn, with opportunities to work from home part time
Security clearance - Minimum Baseline Personnel Security Standard
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
- Understanding of application deployment strategies, continuous integration and version control
- Comfortable with automated testing
- Building and configuring new server platforms and the automated tooling to do so
- Familiarity with network protocols – TCP/IP, HTTP, TLS, etc
- Deploying and operating applications developed in Java, node.js in a production environment
- Using configuration management tools such as Puppet, Chef, Ansible
- Administering PostgreSQL
- Experience of AWS (EC2 and RDS), delivering a complex web application stack
Nice-to-have skills and experience
- Experience working on a PCI accredited environment
- Experience operating Docker in a production environment
- Experience with modsecurity
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
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