Our reward package
We're looking for an exceptional DevOps Engineer to help us make a difference to our planet.
Our DevOps Engineer will work a hybrid pattern of homeworking and one day per month plus ad-hoc to support business requirements in Exeter HQ .
Why join us?
We provide critical weather services and world-leading climate science to deliver extraordinary impact and benefit across the globe. Our work helps people make better decisions to stay safe and thrive.
As our DevOps Engineer , your total reward package is potentially worth up to 45625.00 annually, which includes basic salary, market supplement, potential corporate bonus and employer pension contributions.
Your starting salary will be 30932.00 and you will have opportunities to progress to 33925.00 over time. New joiners to the Met Office will start on the salary band minima.
In addition you will be paid 2500.00 per annum as a market supplement to reflect the demand for your skills. You will be paid this market driven allowance from April 2022 until March 2024 in your monthly pay whilst performing this role.
Your package includes:
– Outstanding Civil Service Pension
– Flexible hours and homeworking
– Annual Leave starting at 27.5 days (plus Bank Holidays) rising to 32.5 days (plus Bank Holidays) after 5 years and option to buy or sell up to 5 days per year of annual leave
– Cycle to work scheme for the purchase of a bicycle and equipment for healthy, low carbon travel
– Access to discounted shopping on a range of retail, leisure and lifestyle categories
Who we are
We provide critical weather services and world-leading climate science, to help people make better decisions to stay safe and thrive.
Together:
- 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
Find out more about our values by visiting our careers page.
Job Purpose
The successful candidate will be joining a small team within the Met Office, focused on helping developers, engineers, scientists and support staff manage the health and well-being of the numerous services that make up the Met Office business. Your team will be multi-disciplined, covering the breadth of the Met Office estate, including Cloud based services and on-premise systems, ranging from the supercomputer to a Raspberry Pi. The primary focus of this role will be:
- To lead work packages on the evolution, support, and development of a range of services within the Logging, Monitoring and Alerting Team, with a focus on consolidation and optimisation of services onto Cloud computing.
- To support the Met Office developer/support community, providing technical expertise, help, and guidance on how to integrate new systems into our service portfolio, including helping troubleshoot/fix problems with existing integrations.
- You will be joining this busy team, as we continue to exploit Cloud based services and embrace Agile ways of working. You will be gaining valuable experience, working on a mixture of on premise and Cloud based platforms, helping to develop and operationally support services that span both environments.
Essential Qualifications, Skills & Abilities
Collaborative team player with experience of working within an operational IT environment.Experience of working within a Cloud computing environment, developing, and delivering services.Ability to taking ownership and lead on work packages/projects, managing resources to fulfil expected outcomes, conveying technically complex information effectively with customers and stakeholders at all levels. A strong technical background and a genuine ability to solve complex technical problems, demonstrating you have also considered the 'bigger picture', ensuring service continuity and customer satisfaction.Experience of writing quality code, ideally in Python.
Desirable Qualifications, Skills & Abilities
We would love you to apply if you believe you meet our essential criteria, but your application will be even stronger if you have:
Ability to coach and mentor junior colleagues, to facilitate knowledge sharing and improve wider team capability.Awareness of ITIL best practice and use of IT service Management tools such as JIRA/ServiceNow to help manage the team's workload.Experience of development and delivery using Agile principles.
How to apply
If you share our values, we'd love to hear from you. Apply below using your CV and Cover Letter/Supporting Statement (which must detail how you meet each of the essential criteria).
Closing date 05/02/2023 at 23:59 with interviews commencing from 20/02/2023 . You will hear from us once the closing date has passed. Our interviews are taking place remotely via Microsoft Teams.
If successful, please note we are unable to offer expenses for travel to your normal place of work. Please ask at interview if you would like extra clarity on how often this requirement is likely to be.
How we can help:
If you are considering applying and need assistance to do so, please contact us via . You can request adjustments either within your application or by contacting us. Should you be offered an interview, please be aware there may be a selection exercise which could include a presentation, written test or a scenario-based activity.
You can select in your application to be considered under the Disability Confident (Guaranteed Interview) Scheme. To be invited to interview/assessment under this scheme, your application must meet the essential criteria for the role.
We are an equal opportunities employer, welcoming applications from those with all protected characteristics. We recruit on merit, fairness, and open competition in line with the Civil Service Code.
We can only accept applications from those eligible to live and work in the UK – please refer to GOV.UK for information. We require Security clearance, for which you need to have resided in the UK for at least 3 of the last 5 years to be eligible. You will need to achieve full security clearance within your first 6 months with us.
Additional information
We operate an on-call roster in Technology to provide 24/7/365 support to respond to operational service requirements. This post may be part of an on-call roster and the postholder would be required to participate in an on-call roster where in operation.GOLD
