DevOps Apprentice

Summary

We are recruiting 4 DevOps Apprentices who will gain first-hand experience while being supported by theoretical and practical learning. You will have the opportunity to make an impact early on in your role. You’ll also get to learn the specialist skills tailored to the knowledge, skills and behaviours required as a computing professional.

Annual wage: £23,186 a year
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Training course: DevOps engineer (level 4)
Hours: Monday - Friday - flexible hours typically 9.00am - 5.00pm.
37 hours a week
Possible start date: Monday 1 September
Duration: 2 years
Positions available: 4

Work

As an apprentice, you’ll work at a company and get hands-on experience. You’ll gain new skills and work alongside experienced staff.

What you’ll do at work

Working on maintenance and development of production and development environments 
Working with users on issues and deployments  
Adapting workloads to work on virtual machines and containers
Developing and improving documentation for users and team members
Adapting and developing training exercises on various aspects of our facilities
Building and maintaining Docker containers using automation
Investigating and providing feedback on new services and applications, and technologies
Building and improving continuous integration and deployment pipelines for software, containers, and configuration managed infrastructure
Developing software and automations to deliver a robust and adaptable service
Working on monitoring production environments
Working with a Linux system environment

Where you’ll work

Rutherford Appleton Laboratory

Harwell

Didcot

Oxfordshire

OX11 0QX

Training

An apprenticeship includes regular training with a college or other training organisation. At least 20% of your working hours will be spent training or studying.

College or training organisation

FIREBRAND TRAINING LIMITED

Your training course

DevOps engineer (level 4)

Equal to higher national certificate (HNC)

Course contents

Communicate credibly with technical and non-technical people at all levels, using a range of methods; e.g. ‘Show and Tell’ and ‘Demonstrations’.
Work within different organisational cultures with both internal and external parties
Translate user needs into deliverable tasks, writing clear, concise and unambiguous user stories that the whole team can understand.
Initiate and facilitate knowledge sharing and technical collaboration
Deploy immutable infrastructure
Install, manage and troubleshoot monitoring tools
Navigate and troubleshoot stateful distributed systems, in order to locate issues across the end-to-end service.
Work in agile, multi-disciplinary delivery teams, taking a flexible, collaborative and pragmatic approach to delivering tasks.
Application of a range of cloud security tools and techniques - e.g. threat modelling, vulnerability scanning, dependency checking, reducing attack surface area - incorporating these tools and techniques into the automated pipeline wherever possible.
Assess identified and potential security threats and take appropriate action based on likelihood v impact.
Employ a systematic approach to solving problems, using logic and hypotheses / experimentation to identify the source of issues.
Automate tasks where it introduces improvements to the efficiency of business processes and reduces waste, considering the effort and cost of automation.
Engage in productive pair/mob programming.
Write tests and follow Test Driven Development discipline in various different contexts.
Release automation and orchestration as part of a Continuous Integration workflow and Continuous Delivery pipeline, automating the delivery of code from source control to the end users.
Invest in continuous learning, both your own development and others, ensuring learning activities dovetail with changing job requirements. Keep up with cutting edge.
Code in a general purpose programming language.
Specify cloud infrastructure in an infrastructure-as-code domain-specific language.
Interpret logs and metrics data within the appropriate context to identify issues and make informed decisions.
Writing code in such a way that makes merging easier and facilitates branching by abstraction - i.e. feature toggling.
Application of lightweight modelling techniques, such as whiteboarding, in order to gain consensus as a team on evolving architecture.
Incremental refactoring by applying small behaviour-preserving code changes to evolve the architecture.
Communicate credibly with technical and non-technical people at all levels, using a range of methods; e.g. ‘Show and Tell’ and ‘Demonstrations’.
Work within different organisational cultures with both internal and external parties
Translate user needs into deliverable tasks, writing clear, concise and unambiguous user stories that the whole team can understand.
Initiate and facilitate knowledge sharing and technical collaboration
Deploy immutable infrastructure
Install, manage and troubleshoot monitoring tools
Navigate and troubleshoot stateful distributed systems, in order to locate issues across the end-to-end service.
Work in agile, multi-disciplinary delivery teams, taking a flexible, collaborative and pragmatic approach to delivering tasks.
Application of a range of cloud security tools and techniques - e.g. threat modelling, vulnerability scanning, dependency checking, reducing attack surface area - incorporating these tools and techniques into the automated pipeline wherever possible.
Assess identified and potential security threats and take appropriate action based on likelihood v impact.
Employ a systematic approach to solving problems, using logic and hypotheses / experimentation to identify the source of issues.
Automate tasks where it introduces improvements to the efficiency of business processes and reduces waste, considering the effort and cost of automation.
Engage in productive pair/mob programming.
Write tests and follow Test Driven Development discipline in various different contexts.
Release automation and orchestration as part of a Continuous Integration workflow and Continuous Delivery pipeline, automating the delivery of code from source control to the end users.
Invest in continuous learning, both your own development and others, ensuring learning activities dovetail with changing job requirements. Keep up with cutting edge.
Code in a general purpose programming language.
Specify cloud infrastructure in an infrastructure-as-code domain-specific language.
Interpret logs and metrics data within the appropriate context to identify issues and make informed decisions.
Writing code in such a way that makes merging easier and facilitates branching by abstraction - i.e. feature toggling.
Application of lightweight modelling techniques, such as whiteboarding, in order to gain consensus as a team on evolving architecture.
Incremental refactoring by applying small behaviour-preserving code changes to evolve the architecture.

Your training plan

You will undertake professional development and training as part of a cohort of computing apprentices with Firebrand Training (formerly Estio) on the Level 4 DevOps Engineer

Apprenticeship: https://www.instituteforapprenticeships.org/apprenticeship-standards/devops-engineer-v1-0.

More training information

With training and support from experts in their fields, you’ll be enthusiastic about developing your knowledge, skills and behaviours, working towards completing your apprenticeship, gaining appropriate qualifications whilst making a real difference in your role
If working with innovative technologies on world-leading research isn’t enough, you will develop both professionally and as a critical member of the team in an environment you won’t find anywhere else
Our dedicated Apprenticeship Team will support you every step of the way, helping you make the most of your opportunities and to achieve the goals you already have and those you have yet to discover!
We provide an opportunity to really pursue your interests and passion
You’ll have access to additional core skills development, access to a community of apprentices across the site, annual Apprentice awards evenings, a number of active sport and social groups across campus, and potential opportunities for overseas placements

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE in:

English (grade 4/C or above)
Maths (grade 4/C or above)

A Level in:

2 x A levels or equivalent (grade C or above)

Let the company know about other relevant qualifications and industry experience you have. They can adjust the apprenticeship to reflect what you already know.

Skills

Communication skills
IT skills
Attention to detail
Organisation skills
Customer care skills
Problem solving skills
Presentation skills
Administrative skills
Number skills
Analytical skills
Logical
Team working
Initiative

About this company

UKRI is an organisation that brings together the seven disciplinary research councils, Research England and Innovate UK. Together, we build an independent organisation with a strong voice and vision ensuring the UK maintains its world-leading position in research and innovation. Supporting some of the world’s most exciting and challenging research projects, we develop and operate some of the most remarkable scientific facilities in the world. We are pushing the frontiers of human knowledge through fundamental research and delivering benefits for UK society and the economy through world-class research, skills and business-led innovation.

https://www.ukri.org/councils/stfc/ (opens in new tab)

Company benefits

STFC offers a benefits package crafted to provide an excellent work/life balance including 30 days’ annual leave, an outstanding index linked pension scheme, 10.5 public and privilege days, Christmas closure and flexible working hours.

Disability Confident

A fair proportion of interviews for this apprenticeship will be offered to applicants with a disability or long-term health condition. This includes non-visible disabilities and conditions.

You can choose to be considered for an interview under the Disability Confident scheme. You’ll need to meet the essential requirements to be considered for an interview.

After this apprenticeship

Employees can access additional training including upskill apprenticeships

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

Science and Technology Facilities Council

Louisa Chipperfield

louisa.chipperfield@ukri.org

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000295477.

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Closes on Sunday 16 February

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Company’s application instructions

Online applications only preferred for this role. Please submit a CV and covering letter which clearly outlines how you fulfil the criteria specified along with your motivation for UKRI and the role. Note that failure to address the above criteria or submit an application without a covering letter may result in the application not being considered. Assessment will only be based upon the content of your submitted covering letter and CV and not the ‘experience’ section of the application.

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