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Job Role: DevOps Developer

Job Location: Met Office

Salary: £500 to £650 per day, dependent upon experience

Working period: Monday – Friday 09:00 – 17:30

Working Hours: 5 days per week (REMOTE WORKING)

Assignment period: 3-6 Months Ongoing

Job Purpose

* As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will be a member of an internal DevOps team, The Broadcast Graphics Team within OpMet Technology, to provide expert development and maintenance for an in-house supported application and supporting tools that enables our Operational Meteorologists to provide weather services across a range of domains.

* Your primary focus will be on coding and configuration within a DevOps environment to develop and support the Met Office broadcast graphics software and to further enable continuous delivery. The broadcast graphics software is used by the Met Office and our media customers - you will probably have already seen it in action on TV weather broadcasts and you will be a key member of the team developing, configuring, and supporting the operation of this software.

* You will be expected to transform technical requirements into effective solutions, integrating and building software to enable product delivery. You will be knowledgeable with all aspects of the agile delivery lifecycle to ensure a continuous provision of services are delivered.

Essential Qualifications, Skills & Abilities

1. Extensive experience in software development.

2. Highly proficient in coding in Python, including the creation of unit and integration tests.

3. Knowledge of DevOps practices (Git version control, automated testing, CI/CD tools).

4. Skilled in Enterprise Linux, troubleshooting, upgrading, and testing software and OS, with experience in writing bash shell scripts.

5. A proven ability to communicate easily, enthusiastically, and professionally with colleagues and customers with evidence of an organised and structured approach to your work and the ability to work within an agile DevOps team.

6. Possess an active SC level clearance.

Right to work requirements

* Passport

* BRP

* Sharecode