Met Office Jobs – Software Developer In Plymouth

Overview

Position Title: Software Developer

Company: Met Office

Location: Plymouth, UK

Job Description:

The weather. It impacts all of us, all the time. But for some people, those impacts can mean real suffering. Landslides, floods, snowfall, and other extreme weather events can cost lives.

At the Met Office, we can’t control the weather, but we can try to forecast these life changing events and help to reduce the impacts by allowing people time to prepare. We’re great at doing this already, but we can be better, and that’s why we need your help.

The UK Government has invested heavily in Met Office IT, with a £1.2B investment in a new supercomputer capability that will help us to increase our forecasting capability, but IT is only as good as the teams that can exploit it.

We’re looking for developers to work with us to create outcomes from this investment, people who want to make a difference to the world we live in, who want to save lives and livelihoods across the world, not just in the UK.

A career at the Met Office opens a wealth of opportunities to not only work with world class partners, such as Microsoft, ESRI, Amazon and many others, but also to challenge them to create solutions for Met Office problems.

You’ll be able to see your work on millions of devices through our award winning weather app, and know that solutions that you helped to build are helping the world prepare for the impacts of climate change.

We see our developers as future technical leaders and that’s why we invest heavily in training and development opportunities, not only in technical skills, but also in leadership and management, with the aim of helping you to be all that you be.

Requirements:

• Experience working with agile methodologies;
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to present complex technical subjects to architects, developers and other less technical Met Office colleagues and collaborators.
• Experience of automating software deployments using Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment.
• Have an appreciation of information security, designing solutions and services with security controls embedded.
• Proven experience of collaborating with others to deliver and support production services;
• Experience working with geospatial data, standards and systems;
• Proven ability to design, code, test and document programs or scripts of medium to high complexity, using the right standards and tools.
• Proven experience of testing best practice, for example Test Driven Development;