DevOps Engineer - AI Operations

Met Office; Devon and Torbay; Hybrid; GBP 33,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

The Met Office is seeking a DevOps Engineer for AI Operations to develop and maintain an AI Operations Platform, ensuring scalability and repeatability of AI models. This role involves collaboration with teams to refine specifications and support users in adopting modern development practices. The position offers a competitive salary and a supportive work environment focused on environmental impact.

Benefits

Civil Service pension

Annual Leave starting at 27.5 days

Recruitment Retention Allowance

Qualifications

• Experience developing software and/or automation scripts in Python.
• Understanding of modern agile DevOps workflows.
• Ability to work effectively within a multidisciplinary team.

Responsibilities

• Develop the AI Operations Platform for research and operational AI workloads.
• Apply modern development standards like MLOps and CI/CD.
• Build and maintain AI/ML development toolchains.

Skills

Python

Agile DevOps workflows

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We're looking for two exceptional DevOps Engineer to help us make a difference to our planet.

As our DevOps Engineer, 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 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

Your world of expertise

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is creating new, transformative, ways to deliver weather and climate science and services. It has the potential to reduce compute requirements thousands-fold compared to existing numerical weather prediction (NWP) methods, opening new opportunities such as high-resolution "km-scale" prediction, and moving forecasting out of the domain of supercomputers and onto edge devices. To realise any of these opportunities as an operational service that delivers customer value, the Met Office needs the capability to develop and run data-driven workflows in a secure, sustainable and cost-effective way. There is a strong need for a consistent AI Operations Platform that enables internal users to do foundation AI research, develop valuable datasets, and then rapidly pull-through to operations data-driven weather and climate services. In this post you will be a core developer of the AI Operations platform, implementing features to ensure it is suitable for Met Office weather and climate workloads and that deploying AI models into operations is repeatable, scalable and highly available.

The DevOps engineer (GDaD DevOps role) for AI Operation's key responsibilities will be to:

• Develop the AI Operations Platform to meet the requirements of research, development and operational AI workloads at the Met Office.
• Apply modern development standards, such as MLOps, infrastructure-as-code, and CI/CD, and support users of the service to adopt complementary processes.
• Build, maintain and support key AI/ML development toolchains suitable for a wide range of Met Office data science applications.
• Work collaboratively with users, architects and other stakeholders to refine specifications and develop prototype new services.

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 DevOps Engineer, your total reward package will be up to £49,806 annually, which includes:

• 33,794 base pay
• 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 market driven allowance from April 2024 until March 2026 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 developing software and/or automation scripts in Python. (Experts by Nature)
• Understanding of modern agile DevOps workflows.
• Ability to work effectively within a multidisciplinary team. (Better Together)
• Experience or a demonstrable desire to learn and apply new tools and techniques, specifically in some of the areas of scientific programming, machine learning operations ("MLOps"), automation, and cloud computing. (We keep evolving)

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 26/05/2025 at 23:59 with first stage interviews commencing from 09/06/2025. 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 Disability Confident Scheme. To be invited to interview/assessment under this scheme, your application must meet the essential criteria for the role.

We understand 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. You will need to achieve full security clearance within your first 6 months with us.

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