DevOps Apprentice

Summary

You will design, create, and support digital information systems and technologies for use by Xpand Logistics and their clients/customers, particularly, but not exclusively, in a cloud computing environment. To ensure that information technology adds the maximum value to Xpand so as to facilitate the success of our business growth.

Wage

£17,000 a year

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£17,000 - £19,000 per annum

Training course

DevOps engineer (level 4)

Hours

Days and shifts to be confirmed.

37 hours 30 minutes a week

Start date

Monday 2 June 2025

Duration

1 year 7 months

Positions available

1

Work

Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.

What you’ll do at work

Developing integrations through API Management, DevOps, and Azure Logic Apps
Creating and maintaining integration maps using development tools
Creating and consuming XML JSON test data sent to and extracted from our ERP system
Assist onboarding new customers through integration and use of business systems
Ensuring project tools are used and up to date with project progress and project methodologies are followed
Project delivery: timely completion of projects within the assigned deadlines and budget constraints
System uptime: maintaining a high level of system availability and minimising downtime
Code quality: ensuring code is of high quality, with minimal bugs and issues, demonstrated through comprehensive testing

Where you’ll work

Unit 8A
Festival Way
Basildon
Essex
SS14 3WB

Training

Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.

College or training organisation

QA 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

This training plan has not been finalised. Check with this employer if you’ll need to travel to a college or training location for this apprenticeship.

More training information

Why choose our DevOps Engineer Level 4 Apprenticeship?

Our DevOps Engineer Level 4 Apprenticeship focuses on implementing and facilitating the use of DevOps practices within a business.

The DevOps Engineer Level 4 apprenticeship programme encompasses multiple stages of the software development life cycle, automating processes around development, testing and release for continuous integration of new features, and subsequent continuous delivery of a product.

QA’s DevOps Engineer Level 4 apprenticeship programme enables the apprentice to:

Work as part of a larger team and understand the context of both the development and technical operations aspects of a project in order to streamline communication between teams
Interpret design documentation and specifications defined and delivered by specialist members of the team, such as a business analyst or technical architect
Understand a combination of strong theoretical DevOps concepts further solidified with industry-standard tooling education in building, containerisation, orchestration and deployment
Gain access to a large portfolio of learning for both general-purpose and cloud-vendor specific tooling in AWS, Azure and GCP
Explore the developer skills needed for learners to create applications through Python with connected databases, practising TDD and OOP

Tools and technologies learned: Apprentices learn to use Python, Linux, Google Cloud, Microsoft SQL Azure and AWS.

Requirements

Desirable qualifications

A Level in:

STEM subject (grade Any)

BTEC in:

STEM subject (grade Any)

Other in:

IT (grade Any)

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
Problem solving skills

Other requirements

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About this company

XPand Logistics delivers bespoke shipping and logistics solutions, worldwide. A privately owned UK business with over 20 years’ experience, we are dedicated to providing the quickest, most efficient and economical logistics services for customers and freight of all sizes – whether by road, sea, or air.

Company benefits

• Volunteer Day • HSF: Health cash plan service that XPand contribute to • Pension scheme • Free parking • Paid sick leave, after probation • Long service financial rewards. • Death in service benefit of x3 salary

After this apprenticeship

Progression opportunities and a potential permanent full time role on completion of programme

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