Associate Infrastructure Engineer - Industrial Placement
Met Office, Exeter
Associate Infrastructure Engineer - Industrial Placement
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Met Office, Exeter
- Full time
- Temporary
- Onsite working
Posted 2 days ago, 3 Nov | Get your application in today.
Closing date: Closing date not specified
job Ref: 3dcd4157340e437fb24fba447bca31fe
Full Job Description
The Met Office is delighted to open our advertising for a number of Industrial Placements, which will commence from July 2025 until July 2026. We're looking for an Associate Infrastructure Engineer - Linux Team - Industrial Placement 2025 to help us make a difference to our planet. This is an exciting opportunity to join the Met Office on a 12-month Year in Industry placement, developing your skills and knowledge and ensuring you gain the most value possible from your experience with us. You will have the opportunity to network with our cohort of Industrial Placements all over the Met Office and understand what career opportunities we can offer you after you graduate., Working within our team of Linux experts, your focus will be on supporting the Linux estate, ensuring that its secure and compliant. We look for ways to improve the services that 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, ranging from the latest Supercomputer to building new weather services. Working in the Linux team provides a great opportunity to develop your Linux skills and put them into practice, helping the Met Office deliver its goals.,
- Develop your knowledge and skills of Linux technologies to support and maintain the Linux estate at the Met Office. This will also include keeping the estate secure and compliant.
- Using the Service Management toolset, respond to Incidents, manage changes, and investigate problems to a satisfactory conclusion, minimising disruption to Linux services and ensuring service continuity of the Linux estate.
- Work with team members, offering help and support so that the team meet their goals. Engage with project and technology teams, ensuring that consideration is taken for the supportability of Linux services.
- Look for opportunities to enhance the level of service delivered to users of the Linux services. Represent the Linux team within the Met Office, communicating with users and ensuring an excellent level of service is always delivered. Why join us Our work is life-changing, often life-saving and always life-enhancing. The Met Office is accredited as a 'Great Place to Work UK 2023' and in addition has achieved a place on both the UK's 'Best Workplaces in Tech' and 'Best Workplaces for Women' lists., 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'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 Our Industrial Placement scheme offers ambitious and capable undergraduates the opportunity to gain valuable experience working alongside diverse and highly skilled experts in their field. You'll be working on projects that really matter and will make a difference. You will be joining the Linux Team, which is part of the wider Infrastructure Technology team within the Met Office. Our Linux estate underpins a wide-ranging variety of weather services that are delivered to customers worldwide, meaning that that they can stay safe and thrive. We also provide a platform to our Scientists that allow them to deliver the world class science that is associated with the Met Office.
- Your salary will be £25,606
- Annual Leave starting at 27.5 days
- Access to discounted shopping, inclusive of retail, leisure and lifestyle brands
1. Eager learner with an aptitude for quickly understanding and solving problems and knowing when to seek help (We're a force for good) 2. A real enthusiasm for working in IT, ideally with experience of Linux technologies (We're experts by nature) 3. Effective planning and communication with users and colleagues (We're better together) 4. A drive to develop your skills and learn new technologies (We're experts by nature)
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.
Whilst this is a temporary position until July 2026, there is potential for it to develop into an opportunity to join our Graduate Development scheme once you have completed your University studies. Your package includes:
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