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Senior Infrastructure Engineer – Team Leader
Met Office · Exeter, ENG, United Kingdom
Exeter, ENG, United KingdomFull time43,081-46,728 GBP/yearlyHybrid
Remuneration
up to £65,568 annually, which includes: £43,081 base pay + An outstanding Civil Service pension, with an average employer contribution of 28.97% + Recruitment Retention Allowance (RRA) you will be paid £5,300 per annum as a market supplement to reflect the demand for your skills. Whilst in post, you will be paid this market driven allowance from April 2026 until March 2027 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
Location
Exeter, ENG, United Kingdom
Visa sponsorship
No visa sponsorship
We can only accept applications from those eligible to live and work in the UK - please refer to GOV.UK for information.
Job summary
The Met Office is seeking a Senior Infrastructure Engineer - Team Leader to lead a team responsible for building, managing, and supporting infrastructure services for internal user services and public services. This role involves ensuring the delivery of the Supercomputer service, leading the team with a focus on Lean ways of working and continuous improvement, and effectively communicating with team members and stakeholders.
Benefits
Civil Service pensionRecruitment Retention AllowanceAnnual LeaveOption to buy or sell annual leave
Qualifications
- Proven ability to lead and line-manage technical teams, driving performance and accountability.
- Experience coaching individuals and continuous service improvement using techniques such as Agile/Lean practices.
- Experience maintaining reliable and high-availability services, using ITIL/service management principles, including incident, problem, and change management.
- Knowledge of Linux/Unix, system administration, and production infrastructure/services.
- Experience in scientific or meteorological systems.
- Experience in HPC/supercomputing environments and parallel computing tools (e.g., schedulers like PBS, Slurm; parallel filesystems like Lustre, GPFS).
Responsibilities
- Ensure delivery of the Supercomputer service.
- Lead the team focusing on Lean ways of working and continuous improvement of tools and processes.
- Support the team by removing impediments and actively dealing with delivery risks.
- Lead continual planning process with the team.
- Communicate effectively with team members and stakeholders.
- Identify and address issues that might negatively impact team dynamics.
Skills
Linux
Work schedule
37 hours per week
Security clearance
Security clearance
Relocation
No