DevOps Engineer MetDB team - Met Office - HEO

Location

Exeter, South West England, EX1 3PB

About the job

Job summary

We’re looking for an exceptional DevOps Engineer to help us make a difference to our planet. 

As a DevOps Engineer, the job may be suitable for hybrid working, which is where an employee works part of the week in the office and part of the week from home. This is a voluntary, non-contractual arrangement and the location advertised will be your contractual place of work. 

The MetDB is the central store of nearly 200 observation types from land, marine, aircraft, satellite, RADAR and more. Storing over 380 million observations a day in a binary formats. You will be joining a small DevOps team that monitors, supports and develops the MetDB. We work with teams across the Met Office. The team delivers new data types, improves performance and resilience, identify issues in production and provide user support. We work on Linux systems often using Python and Fortran. However we're looking for candidates willing to turn their hand to any language suitable for the job.

Our opportunity is full time, 37 hours per week. Our people are at the heart of what we do and we'll do our best to agree a working pattern that works for everyone. 

World changing work 

From science to technology, from meteorology to management, and from planning to communication, our expertise helps us stand out as the authority on weather accuracy and climate prediction. We help individuals, industries and government to make better decisions to stay safe and thrive. This is the Met Office. This is who we are. 

• We’re a force for good - focusing on our environmental and social impact
• We’re experts by nature - always learning and developing to do things better
• We live and breathe it - putting our purpose at the heart of decision-making
• We’re better together - understanding partnerships and inclusivity make us greater
• We keep evolving - pushing boundaries to make tomorrow better for our customers

Job description

You will support and develop systems providing real-time data to operational Numerical Weather prediction (NWP), products and research. Contributing to the delivery of exceptional science, technology and operations.

Your key duties:

• Monitoring and dealing with any problems which occur.
• Process improvement.
• Developing Software as part of maintaining the current system as well as part of future projects.

Person specification

1. Evidence of an ability to communicate complex technical information to audiences of different technical literacy and needs
2. Software Engineering and user focus, with evidence of working with multiple programming Languages (e.g. Python, c and Fortran), working with Linux environments in an agile way using suitable tools.
3. Evidence of following Standards and knowledge of different types of Standard.
4. Evidence of investigating and solving a complex problem
5. Evidence of being committed to Professional Development