Senior Infrastructure Engineer - Supercomputer Support

We're looking for an exceptional Senior Infrastructure Engineer - Supercomputer Support to assistance america marque a quality to our planet.

As our Senior Infrastructure Engineer, the occupation whitethorn beryllium suitable for hybrid working, which is wherever an worker works portion of the week successful the bureau and portion of the week from home. This is simply a voluntary, non-contractual statement and the determination advertised volition beryllium your contractual spot of work.

Our accidental is afloat time, 37 hours per week. Our radical are astatine the bosom of what we bash and we'll bash our champion to hold a moving signifier that works for everyone.

World changing work

From subject to technology, from meteorology to management, and from readying to communication, our expertise helps america basal retired arsenic the authorization connected upwind accuracy and clime prediction. We assistance individuals, industries and authorities to marque amended decisions to enactment harmless and thrive. This is the Met Office. This is who we are.

• We're a unit for bully - focusing connected our biology and societal impact

• We're experts by quality - ever learning and processing to bash things better

• We unrecorded and respire it - putting our intent astatine the bosom of decision-making

• We're amended unneurotic - knowing partnerships and inclusivity marque america greater

• We support evolving - pushing boundaries to marque time amended for our customers

Your satellite of expertise

The Supercomputer Support Team is liable for managing the operating systems and halfway exertion bundle of the Met Office supercomputer complex. The property presently comprises of 1 test, 1 improvement and 2 ample operational Cray XC40 systems located astatine Exeter HQ. Our largest Cray XC40 supercomputer is dedicated to probe and collaboration and is located astatine the Exeter Science Park.

We are presently successful the process of replacing our existent systems with next-generation HPE Cray EX supercomputer systems which volition travel online successful the adjacent twelvemonth arsenic portion of our statement with Microsoft to present supercomputer capableness for the adjacent 10 years.

Your cardinal duties

As a Linux System Administrator (Supercomputer) successful our Supercomputer Support Team, you volition support, show and negociate the supercomputer users and systems which successful crook enactment the moving of our meteorological forecast and clime prediction models.

Additionally, you volition work, arsenic portion of the team, delivering the next-generation HPE Cray EX supercomputer.

Why articulation us

Our enactment is life-changing, often life-saving and ever life-enhancing. The Met Office is accredited arsenic a 'Great Place to Work UK 2023' and successful summation has achieved a spot connected some the UK's 'Best Workplaces successful Tech' and 'Best Workplaces for Women' lists.

As our Senior Infrastructure Engineer, your full reward bundle volition beryllium up to £62,939 annually, which includes:

• £41,725 basal pay

• An outstanding Civil Service pension, with an mean leader publication of 27%

• Recruitment Retention Allowance (RRA) you volition beryllium paid £5,300 per annum arsenic a marketplace supplement to bespeak the request for your skills. Whilst successful post, you volition beryllium paid this marketplace driven allowance from April 2024 until September 2025 successful your monthly pay

• Annual Leave starting astatine 27.5 days (plus Bank Holidays) rising to 32.5 days (plus Bank Holidays) aft 5 years and enactment to bargain oregon merchantability up to 5 days per twelvemonth of yearly leave

Essential Criteria, skills and experience:

1. Experience of strategy administration; moving and managing a precocious show computing environment, catering for the needs of galore users with a substance of concern captious and probe workloads to present a precocious prime service. Ideally successful the SuSE Linux situation (Expert by nature)

2. Experience of configuring and managing shared strategy resources successful a multi-user environment, specified arsenic allocation of compute resources, managing occupation priorities, mounting and managing radical and idiosyncratic disk quotas

3. Experience of configuring and troubleshooting a precocious show computing schedular, PBS oregon SLURM

4. Proven analytical quality and problem-solving skills for analyzable method issues successful an multi-user environment. (We unrecorded and respire it)

5. Experience of moving successful an ITIL-based enactment situation to present a precocious quality, precocious availability work for each the strategy users

How to apply

If you stock our values, we'd emotion to perceive from you. Apply beneath utilizing your CV and a Cover Letter/Supporting Statement with grounds against each of the indispensable criteria. We urge candidates usage the CARL method (Context, Action, Result and Learning) for presenting grounds of acquisition and skills.

Closing day Monday 27/05/2024 astatine 23:59 with archetypal signifier interviews commencing from 10/06/2024. You volition perceive from america erstwhile the closing day has passed.

How we tin help

If you are considering applying and request enactment to bash so, delight interaction america via . You tin petition adjustments either wrong your exertion oregon by contacting us. Should you beryllium offered an interview, delight beryllium alert determination whitethorn beryllium a enactment workout which could see a presentation, written trial oregon a scenario-based activity. You tin prime successful your exertion to beryllium considered nether the Disability Confident Scheme. To beryllium invited to interview/assessment nether this scheme, your exertion indispensable conscionable the indispensable criteria for the role.

We recognize that large minds don't ever deliberation alike and arsenic an adjacent opportunities leader we invited applications from those with each protected characteristics. We enlistee connected merit, fairness, and unfastened contention successful enactment with the Civil Service Code.

We tin lone judge applications from those eligible to unrecorded and enactment successful the UK - delight notation to GOV.UK for information. We necessitate Security clearance, for which you request to person resided successful the UK for astatine slightest 3 of the past 5 years to beryllium eligible. You volition request to execute afloat information clearance wrong your archetypal 6 months with us.