Summary: The Met Office is seeking a Software (Python) Developer for a 6-month contract, requiring hybrid working with occasional travel to Exeter. The role involves designing, developing, and maintaining systems that provide weather data services for the transport industry. The candidate will also mentor junior developers and ensure the application of modern standards and methodologies in software development. Active SC Clearance is essential for this position.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, test, and document robust, maintainable, and secure code using industry standard patterns.
• Mentor junior software developers through code reviews and pair programming.
• Develop systems characterized by moderate levels of risk, impact, and complexity.
• Choose suitable design standards, methodologies, and tools, ensuring effective application.
• Evaluate designs created by others for technology selection and resource utilization.
• Apply a modern standards approach within the tribe.
• Write, maintain, and improve automation pipelines for CI/CD environments.
• Identify, locate, and fix faults within critical operational services.
• Support the tribe’s technical estate during working hours.

Key Skills:

• Active SC Clearance or willingness to undergo checks.
• Experience in developing and testing software using Python with industry standard patterns.
• Knowledge of AWS serverless technologies (Lambda, StepFunctions, DynamoDB, S3, SNS, SQS, CloudWatch, APIGateway, RDS).
• Experience in building and deploying software in an AWS environment using CDK, codeBuild, codePipeline, Terraform.
• Experience with GitHub workflows.
• Experience in an Agile, cross-functional, customer-centric environment.

Salary (Rate): undetermined

City: undetermined

Country: United Kingdom

Working Arrangements: hybrid

IR35 Status: inside IR35

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: IT