Senior Infrastructure Engineer - Met Office - SEO

Location

Exeter, South West England, EX1 3PB

About the job

Job summary

We’re looking for an exceptional Senior Infrastructure Engineer - Team Leader to help us make a difference to our planet. 

As our Senior Infrastructure Engineer - Team Leader, 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. 

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

Your world of expertise 

This position is within National Capability Technology. National Capability encompasses the science and technology required to deliver the data which underpins weather and climate services.

The Supercomputer Support Team support, monitor and manage the supercomputer users and systems which support the running of our meteorological forecast and climate prediction models. This involves working with the user community to advise them on the appropriate use of the system and support their needs. The team are responsible for managing the operating systems and core application software of the Met Office supercomputer complex. This is alongside our 24x7 colleagues in IT Operations and our delivery partners Microsoft and Hewlett Packard Enterprise.

As the Senior Infrastructure Engineer Team Leader, you are responsible for a team that builds, manages and supports the infrastructure services that underpin all internal user services and services to the public.

Job description

• Ensure delivery of the Supercomputer service.
• Lead the team focusing on Lean ways of working and maintaining focus on Continuous Improvement of tools and processes.
• Support the team by removing impediments and actively dealing with delivery risks.
• Lead continual planning process with the team.
• Communicate effectively with team members and stakeholders.
• Identify and address issues that might negatively impact team dynamics.

Person specification

1. Lead Criteria: Technical Leadership - Proven ability to lead and line-manage technical teams, driving performance and accountability (Expert by Nature).
2. People Development & Continuous Improvement - Experience coaching individuals and continuous service improvement using techniques such as Agile/Lean practices (Live and Breathe It/Keep Evolving)
3. Service Management & Reliability - Experience maintaining reliable and high-availability services, using ITIL/service management principles, including incident, problem, and change management (Better Together).
4. Systems & Platform Expertise - Knowledge of Linux/Unix, system administration, and production infrastructure/services (Expert by Nature).

Desirable Criteria: 

1. Experience in scientific or meteorological systems.
2. Experience in HPC/supercomputing environments, and parallel computing tools (e.g. schedulers [e.g. PBS, Slurm]; parallel filesystems [e.g. Lustre, GPFS]; etc.).

The panel may perform a preliminary sift of the lead criteria as indicated above.