Senior Application Operations Engineer - Corporate Database

We're looking for an exceptional Senior Application Operations Engineer - Corporate Database to help us make a difference to our planet. You will be joining the Corporate Database Team, which is part of the wider Infrastructure Technology team in the Met Office. Our on‑premise database estate underpins a variety of weather services that are delivered to customers worldwide so they can stay safe and thrive.

We also provide data repositories for our scientists. These help them to deliver the world‑class science associated with the Met Office.

Working in the small team of database administrators, your focus will be on managing and maintaining our on‑premise databases, alongside some development work.

We look for ways to improve the services we deliver and innovative ways to use the latest technology across all that we do. We also work alongside projects that require our knowledge and expertise, helping the Met Office deliver its goals.

• Employ your knowledge and skills with database technologies. Managing and maintaining the database estate at the Met Office. This also includes keeping the estate secure and compliant.
• Use the Service Management toolset to resolve incidents, manage changes and investigate problems to a satisfactory conclusion, thereby minimising disruption to services and ensuring service continuity of the database estate.
• Work with team members, offering help and assistance so that the team meets their goals. Engage with the wide range of project and technology teams to improve and widen database services.
• Look for opportunities to enhance the level of service delivered to users of the database services. Represent the database team within the Met Office. Communicate with users to ensure the delivery of an excellent level of service.

We operate an on‑call roster in Technology to provide 24/7/365 support to respond to operational service requirements. This post may be part of an on‑call roster and the postholder would be required to participate in an on‑call roster where in operation.

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.

Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check (opens in a new window).

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People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

As our Senior Application Operations 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.

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.

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