Apprentice Development & Operations Engineer

Summary

Are you someone who loves using technology, perhaps you’ve dabbled in coding or just love working with computers? GammaLabs is on the lookout for two Apprentice Development Operations Engineers (DevOps) to join their team and gain real, practical experience in coding and managing software.

Wage

£22,900 a year

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Training course

DevOps engineer (level 4)

Hours

Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm, hybrid.

35 hours a week

Start date

Monday 1 September 2025

Duration

1 year 7 months

Positions available

2

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

As an apprentice in Gamma’s DevOps team, you will build, test, and release software, including ‘bots’ that perform automatic processes in the business, working to improve the customers experience with Gamma sites. You will rotate through different teams within DevOps called 'squads', allowing you to work on the things you find the most interesting in the business. You will also be able to shadow and work closely with more experienced employees, such as the engineering team, on a variety of projects, gaining practical knowledge of Gamma technologies and software
The purpose of the apprentice position is to develop your skills over time until you are able to move into an experienced Junior Development Operations Engineer (known internally as Junior DevOps Engineer). As an apprentice, you will receive guidance and support from your manager and team to eventually become independent in your role.

Key responsibilities:
You will be taught everything you need to know, especially the technical knowledge, however, as an apprentice you can expect to:
Help to automate Gamma ‘bots’ and improve their efficiency.
Help to build, support, and monitor Gamma solutions, systems, and processes.
Work with other engineering teams to understand requirements, ask questions, and contribute to building secure and efficient platforms.
Participate in learning about how to perform risk assessments.
Take part in a team blog that documents key objectives and learning outcomes.

Where you’ll work

11 Northampton Road
Manchester
M40 5BP

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

Training schedule has yet to be agreed. Details will be made available at a later date.

Requirements

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
Organisation skills
Problem solving skills
Analytical skills
Initiative

About this company

Gamma help businesses stay connected through services like communication systems, broadband and internet connectivity, and mobile solutions. They’re a fast-growing, people-focused company that offers real career progression and development. They are empowering people at the heart of good business. Their vision is for a better-connected world in which we can work smarter for the benefit of business, people and the planet. Their solutions power communication across the UK and Europe - from small businesses to major enterprise and public sector organisations. They are looking for curious, ambitious people to join them on that journey. Whether you're passionate about technology, people, problem-solving or creativity, there’s a place for you

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After this apprenticeship

After completing your apprenticeship, you will move into an experienced Junior Development Operations Engineer role.

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

Gamma Telecom Holdings ltd

Simran Toor

simran@sanctuarygraduates.co.uk

07884192809

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000315247.

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Closes on Monday 2 June 2025

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