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owner_slack: "#platform_support"
title: Who do I ask for support?
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section: Support
last_reviewed_on: 2018-02-07
review_in: 3 months
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The GOV.UK Platform Support team will:

- monitor the GOV.UK hosting platform and applications, and work to fix any issues
- call on experienced members of other teams to assist in incidents
- deploy changes on behalf of teams that don’t have sufficient access
- support the software and processes that deploy code
- triage technical issues and recommend when to escalate to Reliability Engineering

The GOV.UK development community:

- supports each other with development VM issues
- helps each other with specialised knowledge about specific areas of the platform
- supports each other with issues deploying changes to GOV.UK
- ensures missions are delivered technically in the best and most appropriate way

The Reliability Engineering team are responsible for:

- the infrastructure used to run and make changes to GOV.UK
- updates to `*.gov.uk` DNS (excluding `*.publishing.service.gov.uk`)
- obtaining and renewing SSL certificates
- centrally provided services like Logit

If you and your colleagues can’t resolve a technical issue, problem or question, you should escalate it through, in order:

1. The Technical Lead on the team
2. The Technical Lead for the team’s objective
3. The Lead Architect

If Platform Support instruct you to escalate something to Reliability Engineering, raise a ticket on Zendesk and assign it to the `3rd Line--Infrastructure` queue. You should also raise a ticket if the issue is related to an ongoing incident for tracking purposes, but you can speak to the team directly to get it more immediate attention.

If you speak to Reliability Engineering about a process only they know about, they will work with you to document the process for all of GOV.UK.

Document who to ask about things
Document who to ask about things

This has been agreed between Platform Support, Reliability Engineering
and GOV.UK lead technologists
