DevOps Engineer Apprenticeship
Level 4
DevOps Engineer Level 4 Apprenticeship was designed for aspiring IT professionals with an interest in
simplifying and accelerating development cycles for organisations, improving the quality of their digital
services and enabling them to get valuable working software out in front of active users, both external
and internal.
This apprenticeship standard was created in consultation with some
of the top employers, including Cabinet Office, DBS, IBM, BT, Credit
Suisse, Virgin Media, Fujitsu, KPMG, Santander, Amazon.
DevOps is a philosophy and way of working that brings together two
parts of the IT organisation: software development and IT support.
The DevOps Engineer encapsulates both disciplines and takes
responsibility for all aspects of the development and operations
process - the design, build, test, implement, release and continual
iteration of products.
As an apprentice, you will develop core and specialised skills and
knowledge including Coding, Networking and Security, DevOps
Culture and Methodologies, Infrastructure, DevOps Tooling and Cloud
Computing Specialisation.
Training is delivered through a combination of learning at the
College and learning on the job, where you will practise your skills by
performing a range of duties to support your organisation, including:
• Scripting and coding in at least one general purpose language
and at least one domain-specific language to orchestrate
infrastructure.
• Working as part of an agile team, and explore new ways of
working, rapidly responding to changing user needs and with a
relentless focus on the user experience.
• Implementing and improving release automation &
orchestration, using Application Programming Interfaces (API).
• Applying leading security practices throughout the Software
Development Lifecycle (SDLC).
By the end of your apprenticeship, you will be able to communicate
credibly with technical and non-technical people at all levels, initiate
and facilitate knowledge sharing and technical collaboration,
deploy immutable infrastructure, install, manage and troubleshoot
monitoring tools and distributed systems, work in agile, multidisciplinary delivery
teams, apply a range of cloud security tools and
assess identified and potential security threats and take appropriate
action, and employ a systematic approach to solving problems.
Entry Requirements
Applicants should have Level 2 English and Maths and three A-Levels
or equivalent computing related subject preferably totalling 112 UCAS
points.
Career Paths
The DevOps Engineer occupation is found in a wide range of public
and private sector organisations - essentially in any organisation
of any size that builds or operates modern IT services. Typical job
titles include: Automation engineer, Build and release engineer,
Deployment engineer, DevOps engineer,
Full stack developer, Infrastructure engineer,
Platform engineer, Reliability engineer,
Site reliability engineer.
Campus: Cheltenham
and Gloucester
Full time: 24 months plus 4 months for
End Point Assessment
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