DevOps engineer

Level

Higher

Length

2 yrs

typical

Sector

Digital

Pay

Paid

you earn while training

In a nutshell

Enabling organisations to get valuable working software out in front of active users and improving the quality of digital services.

Build and maintain automated pipelines that test and deploy code

Provision cloud infrastructure using code rather than manual configuration

Monitor system performance and investigate alerts or incidents

Collaborate with developers to improve build speed and reliability

Manage container deployments and update Kubernetes configurations

Review and improve security controls across the delivery pipeline

Write runbooks and documentation for operational processes

Cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud

Infrastructure as code using tools like Terraform or Ansible

CI/CD pipeline design using Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or similar

Containerisation with Docker and orchestration with Kubernetes

Monitoring, alerting, and observability for production systems

Security best practices for cloud and software delivery (DevSecOps)

Scripting in Python, Bash, or PowerShell to automate tasks

Ready to look for a place?

See live DevOps engineer apprenticeship vacancies on the official government service.

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