DevOps Engineer - LMA

at  Met Office

Job Introduction
We’re looking for an exceptional DevOps Engineer - LMA to help us make a difference to our planet.
As our DevOps Engineer - LMA, 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.

ESSENTIAL CRITERIA, SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

• Collaborative team player with experience of working within an operational IT environment. (We’re better together)
• 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. (We’re experts by nature)
• Experience of writing quality code, ideally in Python.

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.