AMS PSR

On behalf of the Met Office, we are looking for a Devops Engineer Inside IR35/ for a 6 months contract based Hybrid Exeter.

As a Devops Engineer, your main responsibilities will be:

Essential:

• Design, build, and maintain DevOps toolchains and automated workflows
• Develop and support logging, monitoring, and alerting solutions across distributed environments
• Translate technical requirements into scalable and efficient DevOps processes
• Manage test and live environments, ensuring reliability and performance
• Write and maintain automation scripts and services (primarily in Python)
• Improve development standards, CI/CD processes, and system observability
• Identify and resolve delivery blockers, reducing risk and improving speed
• Design systems with built-in security controls and resilience
• Develop and maintain integrations between systems and platforms
• Proven experience in a DevOps / Platform Engineering role
• Strongexperience with:
  • AWS (core services, deployments, infrastructure)
  • Python for automation and scripting
  • Elastic (ELK Stack) for logging and observability
  • JIRA for workflow and issue tracking
• Experience managing CI/CD pipelines and development toolchains
• Ability to design, build, test, and document solutions of moderate to high complexity
• Experience with monitoring, logging, and alerting systems in production environments
• Knowledge of infrastructure as code (e.g. Terraform) is highly desirable
• Familiarity with ITIL practices and service management tools (e.g. ServiceNow)
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills

Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.

Disability Confident 

As a member of the Disability Confident Scheme, the Met Office guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group. This scheme encourages candidates with a disability and/or neurodivergence to apply. In exceptional circumstances, we may also need to apply the desirable criteria in our shortlisting process which may include holding active security clearance.

In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following "this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different".