Our world-leading Time & Frequency department are seeking an experienced and practicing Unix Platform Engineer.

About the Role:

You will be joining our team at an exciting time - we maintain the UK's National Time Scale, UTC (NPL), and are currently developing a new resilient Time Scale facility that will underpin our Critical National Infrastructure. This will address the risks associated with our dependency on global navigation satellite systems (such as GPS) that are vulnerable to both natural and intentional interference.

As Platform Engineer, you'll collaborate with prominent Scientists and Engineers to develop and implement innovative, production-ready software and automation to time, quality, and cost., On-prem and cloud-based compute and storage infrastructure
- Automated provisioning and config management
- Team leadership
- Risk assessment and management
- Security mindset
- Clear communicator

About You

Reporting to a Programme Manager, you'll enjoy responsibility for the development of software to defined timelines and budget. You'll utilise your analytical and technical skills to contribute toward the design and implementation of automation which pushes the boundaries of measurement accuracy and stability.

To be successful in this role, you will have the following skills, experience, and qualifications:

Essential:

- Unix admin and engineering
- Scripting and automation - make, bash, Packer, Ansible, Terraform, Docker
- Professional software development experience
- Internet protocols and services - SMTP, DNS, HTTP
- Filesystems, NFS
- Security hardening

Highly-desirable:

- Cloud platform administration
- Hardware builds and bare metal provisioning
- ESXi, vCenter
- Telegraf/Influx/Grafana stack

We actively recruit citizens of all backgrounds, but the nature of our work in specific departments means that nationality, residency and security requirements can be more tightly defined than others. You will be asked about this throughout the recruitment process. To work at NPL, you will need to obtain BPSS security clearance.

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The National Physical Laboratory (NPL) is a world-leading centre of excellence that provides cutting-edge measurement science, engineering and technology to underpin prosperity and quality of life in the UK. Find out more about what it is like working here - The measure of us - Overview.

NPL and DSIT have strong commitments to diversity and equality of opportunity, and welcome applications from candidates irrespective of their background, gender, race, sexual orientation, religion, or age, providing they meet the required criteria. Applications from women, disabled and black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates in particular are encouraged. All disabled candidates (as defined by the Equality Act 2010) who satisfy the minimum criteria for the role will be guaranteed an interview under the Disability Confident Scheme.

At NPL, we believe our success is a result of the diversity and talent of our people. We strive to nurture and respect individuals to ensure everyone feels valued by treating everyone on the basis of their own individual merits and abilities regardless of their own or perceived identity, as part of our commitment to diversity & inclusion, we ensure we're creating an environment where all our colleagues feel supported and welcome. More about this on our Diversity & Inclusion page.

We are committed to the health and well-being of our employees. Flexible working and social activities are embedded in our culture to create a positive work-life balance, along with a broad range of rewards, benefits and recognition. Our values are at the heart of what we do, and they shape the way we interact, develop our people and celebrate success. To ensure everyone has an equal chance, we're always willing to make reasonable adjustments to the recruitment process. If you would like to discuss, please contact us.