Job Specifications
Exeter, South West England, EX1 3PB
Job Summary
We’re looking for an exceptional Scientific Software Engineer - Workflows Infrastructure to help us make a difference to our planet.
As our Scientific Software Engineer - Workflows Infrastructure, 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, but we would also consider applicants wishing to work a minimum of 24 hours per week and we will also try our best to consider those intending to work a job share. Our people are at the heart of what we do and we'll do our best to agree a 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 a force for 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 of decision-making
We’re better together - understanding partnerships and inclusivity make us greater
We keep evolving - pushing boundaries to make tomorrow better for our customers
Job Description
Your world of expertise
The Met Office’s world leading weather forecasts and climate research are incredibly complex and varied. They rely on high quality automation and orchestration pipelines (workflows) to get the best out of our software, staff time, and our world-class supercomputing. Our workflows keep a million CPU cores constantly busy, with hundreds of thousands of HPC-jobs flowing through our supercomputers per day, 24/7.
This is an opportunity to join the team that develops the workflow solutions to keep Met Office science running, scaling, and evolving.
Your role would include development, maintenance, communication and support of the open source software Cylc (https://github.com/cylc/cylc-flow) and Rose (https://github.com/metomi/rose), working as part of a team that includes international partners from New Zealand and Australia. It would also involve helping scientists and scientific software engineers develop and optimise their workflows that use Cylc and Rose. This is a wide role across many technical areas, and we would expect that training and learning are an important part of developing you in this role where necessary.
Your Key Duties:
Design, develop, maintain and support specialised scientific software solutions, that enable Met Office Science and Technology to be recognised as world leaders in weather and climate science and services, in a rapidly changing world.
You Will:
Deliver meaningful advances in capability for colleagues and/or stakeholders through the effective application of scientific software engineering knowledge, understanding and skills.
Provide proactive scientific and technical insight into the solving of scientific software engineering tasks or problems.
Engage with others to understand the requirements for your work and its wider context, and contribute to the development of plans to meet these requirements.
Proactively apply good Quality Assurance processes, best practice, standards and/or regulations to all aspects of your work to achieve the agreed standard.
Communicate accurately and concisely with colleagues and wider stakeholders to develop trust and credibility, tailoring your method of sharing to a range of audiences
Develop your skills proactively and provide support to others to develop their skills leading to beneficial impacts.
You Can Expect To Work Specifically On Topics Like:
Python backend development.
Web app frontend development.
Working with databases.
Working with communication protocols (e.g. HTTP).
Consulting on developing scientific software workflows.
Your world of expertise
The Met Office’s world leading weather forecasts and climate research are incredibly complex and varied. They rely on high quality automation and orchestration pipelines (workflows) to get the best out of our software, staff time, and our world-class supercomputing. Our workflows keep a million CPU cores constantly busy, with hundreds of thousands of HPC-jobs flowing through our supercomputers per day, 24/7.
This is an opportunity to join the team that develops the workflow solutions to keep Met Office science running, scaling, and evolving.
Your role would include development, maintenance, communication and support of the open source software Cylc (https://github.com/cylc/cylc-flow) and Rose (https://github.com/metomi/rose), working as part of a team that includes international partners from
About the Company
The Met Office combines weather and climate science and data with expert insights to help government, businesses, emergency responders and the public to make informed decisions based on the weather and our changing climate.
Everything we do is based on world-leading science and enhanced by the close working relationships we have with partners around the globe. We collect and make sense of massive amounts of data every day, using cutting-edge technology to deliver it into the hands of the people that need it, when it matters...
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