Apprentice Network Engineer
UK IT NETWORKS LTD
CHESHIRE (CW4 8DJ)
Closes on Friday 19 December 2025
Posted on 5 November 2025
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Summary
As a Network Engineer Apprentice, you’ll play a key role in supporting and maintaining our IT network infrastructure while developing your technical expertise through hands-on experience and training. This apprenticeship is for individuals eager to build a career in network engineering, with real-world experience with professional certification.
- Wage
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£15,000 a year
- Training course
- Network engineer (level 4)
- Hours
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Monday to Friday. Working hours 09:00 - 17:00.
37 hours 30 minutes a week
- Start date
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Friday 2 January 2026
- Duration
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1 year 6 months
- Positions available
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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
- Assist in the installation, configuration, and maintenance of network hardware (routers, switches, firewalls, access points, etc.).
- Support day-to-day network monitoring and performance analysis.
- Help troubleshoot connectivity issues and escalate complex problems when needed.
- Contribute to maintaining accurate network documentation and inventory records.
- Assist with network security practices such as user access management and patching.
- Participate in projects involving network upgrades, migrations, or expansions.
- Learn and apply best practices for network design, security, and optimisation.
- Collaborate with IT teams to ensure reliable communication and data flow across systems.
Where you'll work
3 THE CLOCKTOWER
MANOR LANE
HOLMES CHAPEL
CHESHIRE
CW4 8DJ
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
VELOCITY 1ST LIMITED
Training course
Network engineer (level 4)
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What you'll learn
Course contents
- Apply tools and techniques when securely operating and testing networks.
- Install and configure network components.
- Implement tools and techniques to monitor, identify, analyse and record systems performance in line with defined specifications.
- Maintain security of the network against potential threats.
- Apply tools and or techniques to gather information to troubleshoot issues and or isolate, repair or escalate faults.
- Communicate outcomes of tasks and record actions in line with organisational procedures.
- Upgrade, apply and test components to systems configurations ensuring that the system meets the organisation’s requirements and minimises downtime.
- Interpret information and or specifications received from a manager, customer or technical specialist and accurately implement the defined requirements.
- Implement techniques to optimise systems or component performance in line with defined specifications.
- Apply the required level of responsibility when organising and prioritising work tasks, clients’ or stakeholders’ requests in line with SLAs and organisation processes.
- Explain their job role within the business context to stakeholders to enable a clear understanding on both sides of what their remit is and convey technical constraints.
- Operate securely, and apply process, policies and legislation within their business responsibilities.
- Configure and maintain network addressing in line with customer requirements.
- Ensure compliance of network engineering outputs with change management processes including Secure Access Service Edge SASE or Zero-trust networking .
- Apply tools and techniques when securely operating and testing networks.
- Install and configure network components.
- Implement tools and techniques to monitor, identify, analyse and record systems performance in line with defined specifications.
- Maintain security of the network against potential threats.
- Apply tools and or techniques to gather information to troubleshoot issues and or isolate, repair or escalate faults.
- Communicate outcomes of tasks and record actions in line with organisational procedures.
- Upgrade, apply and test components to systems configurations ensuring that the system meets the organisation’s requirements and minimises downtime.
- Interpret information and or specifications received from a manager, customer or technical specialist and accurately implement the defined requirements.
- Implement techniques to optimise systems or component performance in line with defined specifications.
- Apply the required level of responsibility when organising and prioritising work tasks, clients’ or stakeholders’ requests in line with SLAs and organisation processes.
- Explain their job role within the business context to stakeholders to enable a clear understanding on both sides of what their remit is and convey technical constraints.
- Operate securely, and apply process, policies and legislation within their business responsibilities.
- Configure and maintain network addressing in line with customer requirements.
- Ensure compliance of network engineering outputs with change management processes including Secure Access Service Edge SASE or Zero-trust networking .
Training schedule
Training will take place online via weekly lessons through Velocity Academy. The apprentice will also have monthly scheduled coaching calls.
Requirements
Essential qualifications
A Level in:
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- IT skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Problem solving skills
- Administrative skills
- Number skills
- Analytical skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Patience
About this employer
We provide a range of IT support, hardware and cloud solutions from one-off services to ongoing remote support packages with a dedicated UK IT Help Desk.
After this apprenticeship
The apprenticeship leads to a full time position.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
VELOCITY 1ST LIMITED
Ivana Mohilova
ivana@velocity-academy.co.uk
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000349769.
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Closes on Friday 19 December 2025
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