A great opportunity to do a full-time, paid Engineering Apprenticeship with JD Group.

ROLE OVERVIEW

Are you interested in becoming a DevOps engineer apprenticeship, an automation engineer, a reliability engineer, a deployment engineer, a cloud infrastructure engineer or a full-stack developer?

The In-house CloudDevOps Apprenticeship engineer will be working on multiple projects in a fast-paced environment including penetration testing experience in CI/CD, Pipe Line setup and auto scaling. They will also conduct systems design, feasibility and cost studies.

Key programme features (Please note the successful cohort will commence this apprenticeship in January 2023):

• An integrated programme delivering learning that supports a strong sense of progression, continuity and collaboration whilst building digital excellence
• A strong foundation in practical interpersonal and business skills
• Working in teams utilising Agile methodologies
• World-class technical training and facilities in the latest engineering languages and approaches – including Agile Software Development, Azure/AWS, Linux, Python, SQL, JavaScript
• Industry recognised qualifications including: Level 4 DevOps Engineering apprenticeship, AWS/Azure/GCP, CompTIA, and the LPI.
• Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) imparting experience and knowledge to ensure you have the skills to succeed
• Practical experience of hands-on learning to solve real life business challenges
• You will work closely with the DevOps team to ensure that deployed infrastructure meets quality and safety standards
• You will build and maintain data pipelines (including those from 3rd party sources and APIs)
• You will automate repetitive data tasks using tools like Python/Spark/AWS/Ansible 

HELPFUL SKILLS & EXPERIENCE

• HTML5, CSS3, SASS, JSON, YMAL, Databases, Python
• JavaScript, and exposure with ideally one or more of the following:

                      – jQuery, React/Next.js, Angular, Vue

• Cross-browser/device testing
• GitHub workflow management
• Knowledge and exposure to web accessibility guidelines
• Understanding of domains & hosting environments, inc. Plesk, cPanel & Linux
• Used AWS, Azure and GCP cloud platforms
• Understanding of customer needs and key considerations for user experience
• Understanding of SEO
• Used Linux and BASH

ENTRY REQUIREMENTS

General qualification requirements

STEM related Level 3 qualifications such as:

• A levels
• NVQs
• BTEC
• Level 3 Apprenticeship

Entry through experience if you don’t have the above required qualifications:

• 2 years working experience in an IT or related digital field.
• Learners from a non-related IT field will need to pass and complete a mini tech project and aptitude test.

Please note: If you don’t have GCSE English and maths at the required level (A* – C or 9 – 4) you will undertake a Level 2 Functional Skills exam as part of the apprenticeship.