AMS PSR

On behalf of the Met Office, we are looking for a Digital DevOps Engineer (Inside IR35) for a 6 Month contract based Remotely with occasional travel to Exeter.

As a Digital DevOps Engineer, your main responsibilities will be:

• Supports the development and operation of software through tools, environments and practices.
• Responsible for underpinning good development processes including managing tools and testing environments, central code control, maintaining development standards, improving automation and simplification of processes.
• Delivering automated software components that form part of a development operations toolchain.
• Transforming technical requirements into DevOps processes; build complex stories without additional support; manage live test environments; identify and resolve issues preventing delivery, reducing risk.
• Manage the service components to ensure they meet business needs and performance targets.
• Design solutions and services with security controls embedded, specifically engineered as mitigation against security threats as a core part of the solutions and services.

Essential:

• Strong Elastic experience
• Python Experience

SC Clearance is an essential requirement for this role, as a minimum you must be willing & eligible to undergo checks. Please note, due to the exceptional requirements of this position (short-term nature of this role and speed at which we require a postholder in situ) preference may be given to candidates who meet all of the essential criteria and hold active security clearance. 

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.

Armed Forces Covenant

The Met Office guarantees to interview veterans or spouses / partners of military personnel who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of ex-military candidates / military spouses or partners, who meet all of the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group. 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".