Hmrc - DevOps Apprentice

**Details**:
**Reference number**:

- 351507**Salary**:

- £28,341 - £30,323- A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%**Job grade**:

- Executive Officer**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- HMRC - CDIO - Other**Type of role**:

- Digital**Working pattern**:

- Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time**Number of jobs available**:

- 6Contents

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Location
- Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Telford, WorthingAbout the job

**Job summary**:
Discover a career in your hands at HMRC. Whether you're seeking purpose, growth, or a workplace that gives you a true sense of belonging, hear from some of our employees as they share their story about what it’s really like to work at HMRC.

Visit our YouTube channel to watch the full series and come and discover your potential.

**Are you a tech lover who enjoys problem-solving?**

**Wanting to be paid to learn innovative technical skills whilst making an impact?**

**We're seeking ambitious individuals to fill permanent roles and join our team as a DevOps Engineer Apprentice, where you’ll earn as you learn**

**Job description**:
At HMRC, you'll work on projects that make a real difference for millions of people.

As one of our developers you will build the digital services powering essential programs like tax collection and child benefits.

It’s complicated work but highly impactful, where you write and handle code in languages like Python and Terraform to develop software, build infrastructure, and enable rapid delivery of solutions while providing ongoing support. With opportunities to work closely across technical teams to deploy and integrate complete toolchains and systems that are repeatable, scalable, and highly available.

Having the responsibility for planning and improving technical requirements, crafting effective DevOps pipelines using your technical knowledge to tackle sophisticated problems and support delivery teams in deploying products.

**The Apprenticeship**

You will undergo a 4-month boot camp get the ball rolling on a 16-24-month apprenticeship with our learning provider. Supported by your line manager, learning and development manager, skills mentor and the DevOps community, as well as fellow apprentices on the programme, meaning plenty of sources of inspiration and support to help you succeed.

Earning a competitive salary plus benefits while achieving an accredited Level 4 DevOps qualification with further training and mentoring to unlock your potential in this high-demand field.

**Person specification**:
**Eligibility Criteria**

To be eligible for the apprenticeship you are needing to hold the following minimum Requirements:Valid passport/birth certificate and NI number.
- Must have lived in the UK and/or EEA for 3 years prior to apprenticeship start date.
- Not undertaking another apprenticeship or government funded qualification at the same time.
- You must hold GCSEs in Maths and English at Grade C or above.
- In addition, you will need at least one or more of the following:

- BTEC Diploma in IT and successful completion of our proficiency test*
- 2 years of substantial work experience and successful completion of our proficiency test*

The proficiency test will be completed during the first stage of the recruitment process, should you be successful at sift stage.

**Essential Criteria**
- Able to design, code, test, accurate & document simple programmes or scripts under others direction.
- Ability to problem-solve and identify IT based solutions.
- Has an awareness of user experience analysis and its principles.
- Able to help fix faults following agreed procedures.
- Can see the purpose of user stories and focuses on user needs.

**Technical skills**:
We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

- Q1. Team Working.
- Q2. Understanding of DevOps
- Q3. Delivering at Pace.
- Q4. Pair Programming.
- Q5. Interest in the Civil Service.

**Benefits**:

- Alongside your salary of £28,341, HM Revenue and Customs contributes £7,652 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.We offer a generous leave allowance, starting at 25 days and increasing by a day for every year of qualifying service up to a maximum of 30 days.
- Pension - We make contributions to our colleagues’ Alpha pension equal to at least 27% of their salary.
- Family friendly policies.
- Personal support.
- Coaching and development.

To find out more about HMRC benefits and find out what it’s really like to work for HMRC_ _hear from our insiders or visit Thinking of joining the Civil Service.

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**Selection process details**:

- This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Experience and Technical skills.**How to Apply**
- A CV on how you meet the overall skills and