DevOps Engineer Degree Apprentice Review

Working with various cloud technologies and learning all about them. Fully integrated into teams and given tasks like any employee.

I have learnt a lot of new skills at work, and they give us lots of opportunity to spend time to study by ourselves for general skills for work and for external certifications.

In terms of work, it is very varied and you get to decide what sort of technologies you want to work with after you have tried out a few. Company culture is about as good as you're gonna get, very nice team.

Overall it's not bad, however being put into the cloud team means that our degree on software engineering becomes less relevant. Since we're required to do a software project later in the degree, that'll be a bit difficult.

There are numerous people you can go to for support, there is no shortage there. People in the teams are very supportive and encourage you to learn. More experienced people are happy to sit with you and help you through a task.

There is always support available through emailing the lecturers and for wellbeing you have a contact for that as well.

For me personally the qualification is more relevant as we use programming sometimes (not as much as a software engineer would), though I know there are other people that would find it almost useless. It is however a good skill to have in devops.

There are plenty of events, there are quite a few social events and less sporting ones. People are very social and there's no shortage of activities really.

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In terms of opportunities to learn on the job and get treated the same as other more senior employees, this is about as good as it's going to get. People are so down to earth that it doesn't feel very scary starting out.

Be yourself, being honest and genuine is going to be very beneficial. There are no expectations in terms of technical ability upon starting so having those softer skills and motivation is what is really appreciated.