Associate Infrastructure Engineer - Supercomputer Support

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Job Reference metoffice/TP/925/923

Permanent

Working Hours:

37

Location (City/Town):

Exeter

Closing Date:

02/11/2025

Profession:

Region / Division:

UK Region

Careers website category:

Technology

We're looking for an exceptional Associate Infrastructure Engineer - Supercomputer Support to help us make a difference to our planet.

As our Associate Infrastructure Engineer - Supercomputer Support, 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 toagreea working pattern that works for everyone.

World changing work

From science to technology, from meteorology to management, and from planning to communication, our expertise helps us stand out as the authority on weather accuracy and climate prediction. We help individuals, industries and government to make better decisions to stay safe and thrive. This is the Met Office. This is who we are.

We're aforcefor good - focusing on our environmental and social impact#

We're experts by nature - always learning and developing to do things better

We live and breathe it - putting our purpose at the heart ofdecision-making

We're bettertogether-understandingpartnerships and inclusivity make us greater

We keep evolving - pushing boundaries to make tomorrow better for our customers

Your world of expertise

You will be working as part of a team, providing support to our operational and research users to make the best use of our supercomputer environment.

• Live and breathe it: Support, monitor and manage the supercomputer users and systems which enable the running of our meteorological forecast and climate prediction models.
• Be a force for good: Support the migration of operational, research & collaboration workloads from the Cray XC40 systems to the next-generation Cray EX systems hosted by Microsoft.
• Be an expert by nature: Help lead the team as we make the new HPC operational, ensuring that it is optimised as we transition from build into to run.
• Better together: Assist the Met Office and its partners in the supercomputer project to deliver operational outcomes to stakeholders within and outside the Met Office.
• Keep evolving: Working with Met Office Science and Technology to improve our services and deliverables and staying abreast of IT trends.

Our work is life-changing, often life-saving and always life-enhancing.The Met Office is Great Place to Work UK certified. We are also featured on their 'Best Workplaces in Tech' 2023 and 2024 lists, as well as their '54 Best Workplaces for Women' 2023 list.

As our Associate Infrastructure Engineer - Super Computer Support your total reward package will be up to £40,524 annually, which includes:

• An outstanding Civil Service pension, with an average employer contribution of 28.97%

• Recruitment Retention Allowance (RRA) you will be paid £2,200 per annum as a market supplement to reflect the demand for your skills. Whilst in post, you will be paid this marketdrivenallowance from April 2024 until September 2025 in your monthly pay

• Annual Leave starting at 27.5 days (plus Bank Holidays) rising to 32.5 days (plus Bank Holidays) after 5 years and option to buy or sell up to 5 days per year of annual leave

Essential Criteria, skills and experience:

• Experience of system administration in a multi-user Linux environment or running and managing a high performance computing environment, ideally, using infrastructure as code, source code management and release management.(Expert by Nature) (Lead Criteria)
• Evidence of effective communication with team members and any other stakeholders. (Better together)
• Proven analytical ability and contribute to problem-solving activity for technical issues in a multi-user environment.
• Experience working in a support environment to deliver a high quality service (such as ITIL change management or any other process for continuous improvement).

We encourage you to apply if you believe you meet our essential criteria, but we're also keen to discover if you have:

• Experience of bash shell scripts and/or python programming
• Configuration & troubleshooting of TCP/IP connections

The panel may perform a preliminary sift of the lead criteria as indicated above.

How to apply

If you share our values, we'd love to hear from you! Click apply to begin your application.Please complete your career history and provide evidence against each of the essential criteria in the supporting statement questionnaire.We recommend candidates use the CARL method (Context, Action, Result and Learning) for presenting evidence of experience and skills.

Closing date 02/11/2025 at 23:59 with first stage interviews commencing from 24/11/2025. You will hear from us once the closing date has passed.

How we can help

If you have any questions or would like to discuss this opportunity further, please contact us at .

If you're considering applying and need support to do so, please get in touch. You can request adjustments either within your application or by contacting us.Should you be offered an interview, please be aware there may be a selection exercise which could include a presentation, written test or a scenario-based activity. You can select in your application to be considered under the DisabilityConfidentScheme. To be invited to interview/assessment under this scheme, your application must meet the essential criteria for the role.

Weunderstand that great minds don't always think alike and as an equal opportunities employer we welcome applications from those with all protected characteristics. We recruit on merit, fairness, and open competition in line with the Civil Service Code.

We can only accept applications from those eligible to live and work in the UK - please refer to GOV.UK for information.We require Security clearance, for which you need to have resided in the UK for at least 3 of the last 5 years to be eligible, 2 of these years must be immediately preceding the point of your application. You will need to achieve full security clearance within your first 6 months with us.