Industrial Network Engineer

1 month ago


Exeter Devon, United Kingdom Met Office Full time €25,606

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 a Network Engineer Industrial Placement 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.
As our Network Engineer Industrial Placement, 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. Our opportunity is full time, 37 hours per week. 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. We're a force for good - focusing on our environmental and social impact
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.
As a Network Engineer Industrial Placement, you will work with cutting edge technology, helping to keep Met Office employees and contractors connected both internally and to the outside world and supporting our world-leading scientific capabilities.
High calibre teamwork: as a key member of a vibrant team of circa 20 high skilled Network engineers, you will benefit and foster a culture of knowledge share, collaboration and continuous improvement.
Exciting projects: you will get involved with a mix of complex, technical issues, and large-scale life cycle projects. There are opportunities for experiences in data centre networking, next generation firewalls, cloud-based security solutions and SD-WAN.
Install, document, maintain and troubleshoot networking equipment.
Assist in the supervision of network engineering works at Exeter HQ and remotely.
Responding to and resolving incidents, investigating and diagnosing network problems and working with users, other technical staff and suppliers as appropriate.
Implement changes as required by the business to meet the demands of systems delivery, including switch, load balancer and firewall configuration.
The maintenance of local and wide area networks for the delivery of weather data and enterprise communications.
Work closely with experts and lead network specialists within the Met Office.
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.
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.
Annual Leave starting at 27.Access to discounted shopping, inclusive of retail, leisure and lifestyle brands
Currently studying for an undergraduate degree with a significant networking/communications technologies element. (A keen interest in IT and keeps up to date with current and future IT developments. (Has awareness of at least one programming/scripting language i.e. Python, Powershell.
How we can help
You can select in your application to be considered under the Disability Confident Scheme. We require Security clearance, for which you need to have resided in the UK for at least 3 of the last 5 years to be eligible. You will need to achieve full security clearance within your first 6 months with us.



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