Degree Technical Apprenticeships - Scotland Based

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Scottish apprenticeships

Degree–IT: Software Development or IT: Management for Business
Duration: 4 years
Salary: £21,000

Eligibility criteria for course entry

A minimum of four SQA Highers at Grade BBBB (or equivalent) including Computing or Maths (need to find out A level equivalent)

To be eligible to receive funding please check the link below. (rules are need to be resident in Scotland at the start of the course) https://www.saas.gov.uk/full-time/graduate-apprenticeships

Our apprentices work in a variety of roles including

• Test Engineers
• Devops
• Java Developers

Outline of roles,

Test Engineers

As a Testing Engineer you will be part of a SCRUM / Agile Team, working within a team of DevOps, Developers and Business Analysts supporting one of the largest Public sector engagements in the UK for IBM. The Quality Assurance and Testing process across the lifecycle is enabled through test tooling such as CI/CD Pipelines and automated test frameworks.

• Work with AWS (Amazon Web Services) Infrastructure
• Work in a Cross functional SCRUM team with a Scrum Master, Developers, Business Analysts and Architects
• Gain a good understanding of requirement analysis (user stories, acceptance criteria) , test types , testing techniques and tools
• Gain a good understanding of the CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins/Groovy

Devops

As a DevOps Engineer you will be working to support the DevOps, Release and Config team with the development, continuous improvement, and support of the SPM/AEM applications as well as supporting build, development, and test tooling such as CI/CD Pipelines and automated test frameworks.

• Work with AWS (Amazon Web Services) Infrastructure
• Adopt an Agile Kanban workflow
• Develop and maintainer IaC (Infrastructure as Code) using Terraform
• Write Ansible playbooks for deployments
• Build and support CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins/Groovy
• Create and deploy docker containers for future applications
• Work with AWS Lambda Serverless applications

Java Developers

As a Java Developer you will be working on large scale Java/J2EE based products. You will be contributing to the design and implementation of scalable, Java-based integration solutions and accompanying technical design documentation, gaining experience throughout all stages of the development life-cycle from design to support. You will be supporting one of the largest public sector engagements in the UK for IBM with a focus on continuous improvement and agile delivery through hands on work, training, and potential cross skilling opportunities

• Working on large scale Java/J2EE based product development
• Learning and writing HTTP protocol (method/response codes), REST/RESTful web services, SOAP, Middleware/SOA
• Contributing to System Architecture and Design standards
• Developing experience in an Agile environment, working in a Scrum Team and using thee Atlassian suite of JIRA and Confluence
• Using GitLab to follow GitFlow for Config and Code Management

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Required Technical and Professional Expertise
Eligibility criteria for course entry

A minimum of four SQA Highers at Grade BBBB (or equivalent) including Computing or Maths
Eligibility to work in the UK
Have not gained a Bsc or Msc qualification

To be eligible to receive funding please check the link below. (rules are need to be resident in Scotland at the start of the course) https://www.saas.gov.uk/full-time/graduate-apprenticeships


Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise
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