Senior DevOps Engineer - APIM

at  Met Office

JOB SUMMARY

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

• Highly proficient in Java development and proficient in Python development (We live and breathe it)
• Demonstrable knowledge of using Amazon AWS services including Lambda, EC2, VPC (networking) and experience of the AWS CodePipeline
• A working knowledge of implementing or supporting REST APIs using an API Management solution (e.g. WSO2, Apigee) and OpenAPI (Swagger) Definitions (We’re experts by nature)
• Experience of taking requirements and producing either Low Level, or High Level designs and presenting them in a clear manner to different audiences
• Experience of working in a live service using DevOps & Agile processes

NATIONALITY REQUIREMENTS

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

YOUR KEY DUTIES

• Take a leading role in defining and developing the work activities that facilitate the continuous improvement and development of the APIM capability
• Work with the Product Manager and Technical Architect to help define how to deliver the stakeholder requirement by:
• Breaking down and estimating the user stories into manageable chunks to deliver within agreed iterations
• Providing costed technical options and solutions to meet the business need
• Responsible for all low-level design aspects of the chosen technical solution in line with agreed constraints - time/cost/quality
• Responsible for advising the Tech Lead, Product Manager and Service Owner on how to best maintain operations, considering all aspects, such as running costs
• Work with the Solutions Architect to maintain an acceptable level of supportability and complexity – identifying and managing risks and technical debt
• Responsible for design & code reviews - delegating where possible to aid team development
• Responsible for delivering/maintaining DevOps best practice & tooling in support of lifecycle, automated testing and continuous deployment
• Responsible for providing technical advice and estimations to further adopt APIM capabilities. Identifying additional patterns and documentation to improve self-service on-boarding
• Support the needs of a DevOps team with respect to training, mentoring and technical career development
• Contribute to the development of secure and robust re-usable code / tools including:
• Developing and extending Python-based AWS Lambda APIs
• Building new Java classes to extend the APIM platform