Dev Ops Apprentice

ORIGIN8TIVE LTD

Cheltenham (GL50 1BA)

Closes in 9 days (Sunday 17 May 2026 at 11:59pm)

Posted on 8 May 2026

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Summary

Origin8tive are seeking a DevOps Apprentice to join our team, providing support in cloud infrastructure management, system monitoring, and security implementation. This role involves automating tasks, collaborating with team members, and documenting processes. 

Wage

£22,568 a year

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£22,568 18 to 20

£26,436 21 and over

Training course
DevOps engineer (level 4)
Hours
Flexible working but typically 08:30 - 17:00, Monday - Friday. Office based with some work from home subject to Line Manager Approval.

40 hours a week

Start date

Monday 7 September 2026

Duration

2 years

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

Ideal candidates will have a passion for technology, basic knowledge of cloud computing and coding languages, and excellent communication skills. This is an opportunity to learn and grow in a dynamic environment, contributing to software delivery across a variety of Agile projects.

  • Assist in provisioning and managing cloud infrastructure.
  • Support the setup and maintenance of CI/CD pipelines.
  • Monitor performance and health of various systems.
  • Collaborate with other team members to refine software delivery processes and improve efficiency.
  • Document processes, and procedures maintaining an accessible and well-organised knowledge repository.
  • Stay updated with the latest technologies and best practices in the DevOps field, actively seeking opportunities for learning and development.
  • Provide support to development teams in deployment and troubleshooting activities.
  • Assist in identifying areas for process improvement in Agile deliveries.

Where you'll work

BT Telephone Exchange
Oriel Road
Cheltenham
GL50 1BA

Training

Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.

Training provider

CIRENCESTER COLLEGE

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.

Training schedule

  • Dev Ops Level 4 
  • Cirencester College 

Whilst the majority of training will take place at the employers' premises, there will be occasional attendance required at Cirencester College.

Requirements

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
  • Analytical skills
  • Logical
  • Team working
  • Creative
  • Initiative
  • Non judgemental
  • Patience

About this employer

Origin8tive is a well-established, modern and IT orientated organisation specialising in the delivery of Cyber Assurance capabilities in the UK and overseas.

We focus on the development, delivery, and support of high-performance software solutions in the Cyber Security industry, serving customers in the Public and Private sector.

Origin8tive has evolved and expanded, headed by an experienced leadership team who specialise in their respective fields and strive to develop a company that values its people, diversity and understands its customers to offer a professional, high-performing technology team.

https://www.origin8tive.com/ (opens in new tab)

After this apprenticeship

Upon successful completion of the apprenticeship there could be the chance of further employment. 

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

CIRENCESTER COLLEGE

Morgan Brudenell

morgan.brudenell@origin8tive.com

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000030769.

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Closes in 9 days (Sunday 17 May 2026 at 11:59pm)