[t0mas88]

Indeed pretty standard, even in non-government it would be 40 hours but all other terms the same and most likely a company car + private use of it instead of the train.

And I'm also sure they have a significant on-call setup of the IT teams for any out of office hours issues, just like every other large 24x7 kind of organization.

[rgj]

Of course they do. But the real specialists will most likely have been able to keep themselves out of the on call schedule.