Climate change research and innovations in weather forecasting and seismology are increasingly reliant on IT and data. Besides the traditional data from infrastructures such as observation networks, radars and satellites, emerging  datasets like data from other domains, open data, crowd-sourced data and IoT data are need to be integrated in the operations and research of KNMI.

In collaboration with public and private sector partners, the KNMI Data Technology group is working on research and development in cutting-edge web services and products, using (big) data management and processing, data analytics, web technology and data visualization techniques.

You will work as a software developer on IT innovations dealing with large and real-time data, providing essential information to core KNMI communities like weather forecasters, researchers, the private sector and the general public. Part of the challenge: security, robustness, performance, scalability, CI/CD, cloud, metadata and reproducibility and traceability of delivered products.

Creativity and craftsmanship are essential. As a team player you contribute to the inspiring working environment.

Since we have numerous collaborations with (international) institutes and attend relevant conferences, there may be a few business trips each year.

Here is what we expect from you:

• a college or university degree, preferably in Computer Science;
• fluency in one or more programming languages (Java, Python, JavaScript);
• fluent in written and spoken English.

We welcome experience in one or more of the following:

• API design and API management;
• working in a multi-disciplinary Agile/DevOps team;
• cloud development (AWS: cloud formation, ECS, Lambda);
• CI/CD and automated testing;
• interest in weather, climate and seismology applications;
• Specific training in these areas can and will be done on the job. Passion for software development, craftsmanship and continuously improving yourself are essential for this job.

Fixed-term contract: 2 jaar.

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De Rijksoverheid hecht sterk aan persoonlijke groei en loopbaanontwikkeling en biedt daarvoor tal van mogelijkheden. Tot de secundaire arbeidsvoorwaarden behoren onder meer verschillende studiefaciliteiten, bedrijfsfitness, volledige vergoeding van je ov-reiskosten woon-werkverkeer en gedeeltelijk betaald ouderschapsverlof.

Personal growth and career development are important to us. KNMI has numerous individual choices for education, flexible work schedules, parental leave options, free public transport for commuting, allowance for bicycle purchase, etc

The KNMI R&D Observations and Data Technology (RDWD) department plays a crucial role in research and development of services and technologies used for weather, climate and seismology for both operations and research. RDWD employs sensor specialists, observation data specialists and software developers.

The Data Technology group (RDWD-DT) employs 20 software developers and domain experts working on experiments, cross-domain application architectures and software implementations. We work in Agile teams moving towards DevOps. Maintaining and expanding our knowledge on data technologies and software engineering is essential for innovation.

We work in a Unix/Linux environment and have a strong preference for open source and open standards. Working atmosphere is important to us: doors are open and opinions matter.

Products we are currently working on:

• KNMI Data Platform: next-generation data access platform for internal and external data users;
• GeoWeb: web-based visualization and production tool for weather forecasting;
• SProvFlow: a framework for the storage and access of data-intensive streaming provenance;
• ADAGUC: a framework providing Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) services. You will join of the KNMI Data platform team and have interactions with the other teams.

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