The Parliamentary Digital Service (PDS) works with the House of Commons, the House of Lords, and Parliament staff on their IT and digital needs.

We think it’s important that everyone can access and understand what’s going on in Parliament. Our goal is to bring together the public, Parliament Members, and Parliamentary staff to inform, engage, support, and communicate through one, unified digital core – PDS.

We’re looking for experienced Web Operations Engineers to join our growing Development team. You will join a team of Web Operation Engineers working closely with Back and Front-end Developers. The broader Development team will total 16 by the end of 2017.

THE ROLE

You’ll be working on a new Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud infrastructure to enable the delivery of a new website for Parliament (beta.parliament.uk). The new website intends to make the UK Parliament a leader in digital democracy. 

You will build, run and improve the infrastructure for new services and the associated delivery pipeline. You will also maintain and support a range of legacy applications relating to the current web estate.

The new website will be data driven, have user needs at its heart, be developed incrementally and in the open. It will create an information space that will increase engagement, drive understanding and support transactions with Parliament.

You’ll work in a friendly and creative agile environment, alongside multi-disciplinary product teams, spending 100% of your working time performing hands-on technical tasks.

You’ll provide technical guidance and support for your colleagues and help the team grow and develop.

You’ll be working collaboratively with Product Managers, Delivery Managers, User Researchers, Designers, Front-end Developers, Data and Technical Architects, Testers and Web Operations Engineers as well our Data and Search platform team.

Desired Skills and Experience

  • AWS
  • Linux
  • Docker
  • Terraform
  • CI/CD (GoCD)
  • Network protocols
  • Security
  • Logging and monitoring
  • Git
  • Agile methodologies
  • Ruby, Go, Python
  • Performance testing