Senior Scientific Software Engineer 1257028 Full Time Temporary

Senior Scientific Software Engineer needed in Exeter £390per day ref 1257028

The Met Office is looking for a contractor to develop platforms and associated infrastructure to support research, development and learning in the area of data science, machine learning, and earth observation.  The key aim of these platform is to enable collaboration between partner organisations, with easy sharing of data, code and other assets in a robust, secure way. The person doing this work will explore creating such platforms using different hosts e.g. different cloud providers, private clusters, HPC including Monsoon , in a reproducible, reusable way using relevant “Infrastructure as code” (IaC) and DevOps tools and techniques. A key part of the work will be understanding, documenting and testing the requirements of users of these platforms, and understanding the challenges associated with creating, using and sharing environmental datasets. This role will combine elements of the infrastructure engineer, technical architect and software developer to deliver the desired outputs.

Responsibilities:

• Gather requirements for platforms and infrastructure for TDSA (data science) projects and hackathons
• Develop shared software environments (e.g. docker containers, conda environments) to support these platforms and hackathons.
• Develop trial implementations on cloud platforms, primarily AWS and Azure, and private linux compute clusters.
• Support testing of platforms by supporting trial projects and events
• Put relevant and appropriate security measures in place to protect data and other assets.

Full time hours on a temporary basis