Dev Ops Apprentice

Summary

As a DevOps Apprentice, you’ll support our engineers and delivery teams by contributing to the infrastructure, automation, and monitoring systems that keep our projects running smoothly. You’ll work closely with the Engineering, Delivery and Data hubs, rotating across different client projects to build your hands-on experience.

Wage

£25,500 a year

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Training course

DevOps engineer (level 4)

Hours

Monday to Friday between 9am - 5pm, 3 - 4 days in the office, Fridays working from home.

37 hours 30 minutes a week

Start date

Monday 21 July 2025

Duration

1 year 7 months

Positions available

6

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

Assist with the configuration and monitoring of cloud infrastructure (e.g., AWS, Azure).
Support in building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
Write scripts to automate routine operational tasks (e.g., Python, Bash, PowerShell).
Monitor system performance and help with issue resolution.
Work collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams on client engagements.
Participate in regular sprint planning and team retrospectives.
Document infrastructure processes and share learnings with the team.

Where you'll work

6 St. Andrew Street
London
EC4A 3AE

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)

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What you'll learn

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

Why choose our DevOps Engineer Level 4 apprenticeship?

Our DevOps Engineer Level 4 apprenticeship focusses 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 Level 3)

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

IT skills

Other requirements

About QA: Our apprenticeships are the perfect way to gain new skills, earn while you learn, and launch yourself into an exciting future. With over 30,000 successful apprenticeship graduates, we're a top 50 training provider, dedicated to helping you succeed. Interested? Apply now!

About this company

Tecknuovo is a technology consultancy with a deliberately different approach. This means we focus on people, not technology. We move at pace and ensure zero dependency on us at the end of each project. Our mission is to challenge our industry’s norm of supplier dependency. We don’t only build and deliver solutions — we train and up-skill our customer’s teams to transfer complete ownership to them after we exit the project. We help our customers achieve lasting transformation. We are techies, chefs, wannabe sports stars, coders, comedians, mothers, fathers, gamers, superhero’s, book worms, geeks, creatives and open. We are deliberately different.

Company benefits

Everyone receives a Vitality membership, with discounts, perks, and partner offers. From reduced gym memberships and smartwatches to weekly coffee and cinema tickets, it’s a great way to stay motivated and feel good, inside and out.

After this apprenticeship

90% of QA apprentices secure permanent employment after completing: this is 20% higher than the national average.

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