Senior Applications Operations Engineer - DevOps tooling and ITAM

We're looking for an exceptional Senior Applications Operations Engineer - Dev Ops tooling and IT Asset Management to help us make a difference to our planet., Your world of expertise

Based in the Corporate Technology function, the Dev Ops tooling support service enables the delivery of operational excellence across the organisation by providing and developing a suite of SaaS-based software development and collaboration tooling.

You will work within the IT Asset Management (ITAM) team, which is a small, collaborative group. Initially, you will take on the role of senior technical administrator for the tooling stack, working closely with a technical lead, product manager, and other system administrators.

Your primary focus will be on supporting and developing our Dev Ops tooling stack as advertised here. To provide both variety for you and resilience for the team, responsibilities will rotate between tooling support and Software Asset Management-related duties. As such you will eventually also become involved in broader team activities such as improving the software request process, software licence reclamation, licence auditing and working with our enterprise software asset management tooling.

• Act as the primary technical contact for tools such as Git Hub, Jira, Confluence, Lucid Suite, Intelli
  
  J, and associated integrations, ensuring that these services are secure, reliable, and aligned with organisational standards
• Lead troubleshooting and root cause analysis for complex issues across the Dev Ops tooling portfolio, ensuring timely resolution of incidents and problems.
• Lead on the preparation and implementation of changes to enhance the capabilities of the portfolio, ensuring adherence to Met Office change management standards.
• Guide and support junior colleagues, fostering knowledge sharing and professional development, coordinate workload distribution and act as escalation point for technical queries.

We welcome applications that use AI tools for support in drafting or refining, as long as they accurately reflect your own skills and experience. All hiring decisions at the Met Office are made by people, not AI. For more details, visit our approach to recruitment.

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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  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, 2 of these years must be immediately preceding the point of your application. You will need to achieve full security clearance within your first 6 months with us.

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