DWP Digital 

DevOps Level 4 Apprenticeship

Have you considered a career in DevOps? Do you have the commitment to start a new job role whilst undertaking a learning programme?

Summary:

We are excited to launch the recruitment of Level 4 digital apprenticeships with DWP Digital. This is a brilliant opportunity for us to train future leaders and experts in DevOps.

DWP Digital is the digital arm of the Department for Work and Pensions. We’re looking for motivated apprentice DevOps engineers to work with us, contributing to and supporting the design, development and maintenance of infrastructure-as-code and continuous integration, deployment, and delivery pipelines for products that make up citizen services.

DWP Digital is a place where talented people can grow and thrive at the cutting-edge of their industry. You can build a stimulating and fulfilling career with us. A career that gives you opportunities for work-life balance, provides interesting opportunities and gives you plenty of room to grow.

Role description:

This is a great opportunity to earn as you learn and get hands on experience of DevOps engineering. You’ll develop skills, knowledge and behaviours for your career with DWP Digital and be part of a great team.

Alongside gaining the skills you need for your new job role, you’ll be studying towards gaining a Level 4 DevOps engineer apprenticeship qualification.

You’ll be supported by your line manager, digital learning consultant and the wider engineering community in DWP Digital, alongside fellow apprentices. So you’ll have plenty of sponsors to help you succeed.

That said, it’s important that you can be proactive and make the most out of your time on the apprenticeship. There’s a lot to do and learn – so you need to be ready to work hard and participate in the many opportunities you’ll have.

This is a fantastic chance to be on your way to building a fantastic career within DevOps at DWP Digital and becoming a highly skilled tech professional. We hope that you’ll join us!

What you’ll learn:

As an Apprentice DevOps Engineer, you’ll be focused on implementing and facilitating a DevOps culture within DWP, helping to deliver services to 22m citizens in the UK.  This encompasses:

• Multiple stages of the software development life cycle
• Automating processes around development
• Testing and release for continuous integration of new features
• Subsequent continuous delivery of a product

You’ll learn about:

• Common practices whilst working in a DevOps environment, including Agile, Scrum, Continuous integration, deployment, and delivery.
• Networking and security principles both generally and within a DevOps context.
• DevOps tools and technologies.
• How to develop and architect infrastructure and automation pipelines.
• Engineering skills to create automated, verifiable infrastructure and pipelines.

Are you ready?

The importance of digital to support our citizens is a key priority for us, and we’re looking for people with a passion to succeed. We’re very keen to attract a broad range of applicants from diverse backgrounds. So if you have the right aptitude, motivation and attitude, we want to hear from you.

We’re looking for apprentices who have the following:

• Strong logical reasoning and problem-solving skills
• A methodical, step-by-step approach
• Attention to detail
• Business skills including effective communication, teamwork and task/time management
• The ability to troubleshoot issues
• The ability to work under direction, use discretion and determine when to escalate issues
• The ability to work independently and as part of a team

Entry Requirements:

• You hold a current United Kingdom (UK) or EAA Passport, and NI number
• You’ve lived in the UK and/or EU for the past 3 years
• You’re eligible to work in the UK and are not in full-time education
• You’re over the age of 18
• You must not hold an existing qualification at the same or higher level in a similar subject
• You MUST hold at least one of the following:
  • Level 3 Software apprenticeship,

OR

• A Level in a STEM subject

OR

• BTEC Diploma in IT

OR

• A minimum of 12 months of experience within the IT field in the last 3 years.

• If you reach stage one of the application process, you’ll be asked to complete an aptitude test

Things you need to know:

People working with government assets need to complete basic personnel security standard checks. If you’re successful, you’ll need to pass a disclosure and barring security check (DBS). And meet the security criteria before you’re appointed; the level of security needed is government baseline personnel security standard (BPSS). You will also be subject to a check on the Internal Fraud Database (IFD).

If your application is successful following initial screen against the entry requirements stated above, you will be asked to complete an online aptitude test. This test should take approximately 20 minutes.

Those who pass the aptitude test will then be invited to complete a video interview.

The final stage of the recruitment process is the virtual assessment centre which includes a final interview, paired exercise and a presentation.

Please note, if you’re successful you’ll need to be available to start from May/June 2021.

There has never been a more exciting time to get involved in a digital apprenticeship with DWP Digital.

Rapidly expanding worldwide electronic components and sensors manufacturer seeks dynamic, enthusiastic engineering qualified Technical Field Sales Engineer to sell automation components and sensors to OEM's and machine builders.
BASIC SALARY: £30,000 - £40,000 - dependant on experience with possible flexibility.
BENEFITS:
· On Target Commission £8,000 - £10,000 - very achievable and uncapped
· Company Car - Golf type to start (Mercedes C Class, Audi A4, BMW 3 Series after qualifying period)
· Fuel Card
· Full Out of Pocket Expenses
· Hotel Card
· Contributory Pension
· Full Home Communications Package including Broadband, Laptop and Mobile etc.
LOCATION: Yorkshire and North East England
COMMUTABLE LOCATIONS: Leeds, Harrogate, Wakefield, Sheffield, Doncaster, York, Middlesbrough, Sunderland, Durham, Newcastle, Darlington, Hull.
JOB DESCRIPTION: Technical Sales Engineer / Field Sales Engineer - Electronic Automation Components, Sensors to OEM's and Machine Builders
· After an initial one-month, full induction training programme (which will then be on-going) including sales and technical - both in the UK and European HQ, you will be given the Yorkshire and North East territory to develop.
· Although there will also be existing clients and significant business on the area, there will be a high new business content using a database of potential clients, following up on exhibition and internet generated leads, your own market research and your own lead generation.
· You will be dealing with clients at all levels from Design Engineer up to Director level at customers which are mainly OEMs with some end user contact.
· There is also a lot of scope to grow the area, with potential to double it in size selling to customers across automotive, food, pharmaceutical and packaging machinery, and equipment OEM markets.
PERSON SPECIFICATION: Technical Sales Engineer / Field Sales Engineer - Electronic Automation Components, Sensors to OEM's and Machine Builders
To be considered for this potentially rewarding role in terms of remuneration and career progression you will have:
EITHER
Some field sales, or possibly internal / office-based engineering / technical sales or applications engineer experience and a relevant engineering qualification ideally degree level or a good mechanical and electronics knowledge. (Preferably you will have sold components into mechanical OEMs).
OR
A proven track record of success in technical or engineering field sales, much preferably selling electrical, electrical, or industrial automation components to OEMs, ideally with a good mechanical knowledge or understanding as these are electronic components but solving mechanical problems for the customer.
What is most important is your desire to succeed and exceed targets, and progress in a competitive sales environment.
THE COMPANY:
Established for over 30 years across 50 countries worldwide, we are the UK subsidiary of a leading European manufacturer of a wide range of electronic components including vision systems and sensors, safety light barriers and systems also ident readers, barcode scanners and fluid sensors. We supply a very broad range of industrial and process machinery OEM's across automotive, food & pharmaceutical, process, and packaging amongst others.
We are a byword for quality in our market, manufacturing industry leading technology and products in terms of innovation and applications that really work. We have experienced consistent 15-20% growth per annum in the last 10 years.
PROSPECTS:
There is a lot of potential for the successful applicant to grow the role, and your career in a technical / engineering field sales role with a stable, well established and growing UK operation with a low staff turnover that takes a long term view on business, and gives its field sales personnel support and time to succeed.
It is highly likely you will have worked in any of the following roles and/or markets, and worked with the following products and/or services:  Technical Field Sales Engineer, Graduate Trainee Field Sales Engineer, Technical Sales Manager, Internal Sales Engineer - Electronic Automation Components, Sensors to OEM's and Machine Builders
INTERESTED? Please click apply. You will receive an acknowledgement of your application.
Please Note: Wallace Hind Selection have been chosen as the retained recruitment partner of our client and therefore any direct applications to our client from candidates or agencies will be forwarded on to us direct.
REF: RP16216, Wallace Hind Selection

Pendo's mission is to enable others to create software their users will love. We need forward thinking, constantly curious, and engaged engineers to fulfil this mission. We strive to create an environment filled with challenges and supported by mentorship. As a software engineer at Pendo, you will have the opportunity to join one of our development teams building features that ship regularly to Pendo's ever-growing customer base. Whether you prefer to solve problems on the front end or back end of our code, your skills will be utilised, challenged, and developed on a daily basis. We don't put ceilings on growth here at Pendo; we encourage our engineers to take risks, think outside the box, and innovate - billions of software experiences depend on it!

This role is in our Sheffield, UK office. We are looking for someone to come and help us build great SaaS software in a fast-paced, fun, startup environment. 

Responsibilities (what you’ll do):

• As an Associate Software Engineer at Pendo, you’ll grow your skills as part of a strong team, continuously learning, designing and building scalable, flexible software.
• You’ll have a real impact within your team and you’ll help improve your team’s output with code review and day-to-day engineering discussions - helping your team to overcome challenges.
• You’ll help your team with the planning and estimating of tickets.
• You’ll find opportunities to improve our processes and systems.
• You’ll communicate effectively over chat and video with our teams in Sheffield, and with our colleagues in Pendo’s other engineering locations in the USA and Israel.
• You’ll be constantly developing the skills and knowledge that are most needed on your team.

Qualifications (what you have):

• A passion for building web applications, full stack technologies, and testing your work for the highest quality results.
• Thorough and detailed knowledge of at least one programming language and lots of interest in learning new languages.
• A qualification in computer science or software engineering, and/or industrial software development experience.
• Knowledge of SQL and NoSQL databases would be a bonus.
• Experience developing in a Unix/Linux environment is a bonus.
• Excellent communication skills and desire to grow and thrive in a high-growth startup environment.

Pink, Perks, and Such:

Pendo was founded in 2013 by former product managers, who combined their heads and hearts to build something they wanted but never had as product managers -- a simple way to understand and attack what truly drives product success.  Our mission is to improve society's experience with software.

Come join one of the fastest-growing startups, supported by best-in-class institutions like Battery Ventures, Salesforce Ventures, Spark Capital and Meritech. You will gain experience in a diverse and exciting set of technologies and clients and have a real impact on Pendo's future. Our culture is passionate, dynamic, and fun.

Benefits:

• Company Equity
• Private Medical and Dental Benefits
• Generous Pension plan
• Bonus scheme
• Open vacation policy
• Free weekly lunches and fully stocked kitchen with drinks, goodies and balanced snacks
• Frequent company and team-building events
• Lots of company swag...hope you like pink!

We are an equal opportunity employer and believe having diverse teams in which everyone brings their whole self to Pendo is key to our success. We welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives.

Responsibilities (what you’ll do:)

Our Sheffield engineering team have a few front-line products (such as our Feedback Product) that require rigorous engineering to accomplish our goal! We want you to help us with our exciting projects and to integrate our large-scale applications, using cutting edge web technologies. 

Qualifications (what you have):

• As a Senior Front-End Engineer you should have a deep and broad knowledge of Javascript and Javascript frameworks.
• You should have a minimum of 5 years of front end web app engineering experience
• Ideally you have experience of porting large Javascript applications between frameworks 
• Experience of VueJS is a bonus
• You should have the ability to help people in your team and beyond to improve their knowledge and understanding of frontend development.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills are needed - we work with teammates in several global Pendo offices around the world.
• You should have experience of being a key contributor to large frontend projects at scale
• Ideally you would have full-stack experience, to give you more context about the projects you’re working on, but UI is your strength and passion
• Quality is important and you should have experience of automated testing of frontend codebases

Pendo wants someone who is excited about projects like the ones described above, who keeps tabs on browser trends and quirks, and who is passionate about finding interesting and innovative ways to build and test front end code.

Pink, Perks, and Such:

Pendo was founded in 2013 by former product managers, who combined their heads and hearts to build something they wanted but never had as product managers -- a simple way to understand and attack what truly drives product success.  Our mission is to improve society's experience with software.

Come join one of the fastest-growing startups, supported by best-in-class institutions like Battery Ventures, Salesforce Ventures, Spark Capital and Meritech. You will gain experience in a diverse and exciting set of technologies and clients and have a real impact on Pendo's future. Our culture is passionate, dynamic, and fun.

Benefits:

• Company equity
• Private health insurance
• Private dental insurance
• Training & conference budget 
• Open holiday policy
• Frequent company and team-building events
• Lots of company swag...hope you like pink!
• Our offices are located in Kelham Island, Sheffield, which is a 15 minute walk from the train station or 10 minute walk from the Tram stop.

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What makes Pendo culture special

We are an equal opportunity employer and believe having diverse teams in which everyone brings their whole self to Pendo is key to our success. We welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives.  

Pendo's mission is to enable others to create software their users will love. We need forward-thinking, constantly curious, and engaged engineers to fulfil this mission. We strive to create an environment filled with challenges and supported by mentorship. As a software engineer at Pendo, you will have the opportunity to join one of our development teams building features that ship regularly to Pendo's ever-growing customer base. Whether you prefer to solve problems on the front end or back end of our code, your skills will be utilised, challenged, and developed on a daily basis. We don't put ceilings on growth here at Pendo; we encourage our engineers to take risks, think outside the box, and innovate - billions of software experiences depend on it!

This role is in our Sheffield, UK office. We are looking for someone to come and help us build great SaaS software in a fast-paced, fun, startup environment. 

Responsibilities (what you’ll do):

• As a Senior Software Engineer at Pendo, you’ll be at home designing scalable, flexible software; writing maintainable, secure code; and mentoring your team to help them do the same.
• You’ll have an impact across your whole team and you’ll be an integral part of code review and day-to-day engineering discussions, helping your team to overcome challenges.
• You’ll help break down large, ambiguous problems into achievable tasks, and you’ll be capable of owning large parts of a project, whilst coordinating with management and other teams.
• You’ll help your team to constantly improve and learn - by identifying problems and coming up with ideas to solve them.
• You’ll be collaborating with our teams in Sheffield, and with our colleagues in Pendo’s other engineering locations in the USA and Israel.
• You’ll have a focus on high-quality, test-driven development and you’ll help with automation of testing too.
• You’ll have a major contribution to the agile/scrum planning process within your team.
• Use your extensive knowledge of web application development and natural abilities as an innovator to drive our architecture forwards.

Qualifications (what you have):

• Applicants should have extensive experience in building large web applications in a modern language such as Go, Java, Python, or Ruby. 
• Experience with a javascript framework and an understanding of modern browser technologies is a definite bonus.
• A working knowledge of cloud environments such as AWS or GCP is a bonus.
• A working knowledge of SQL and NoSQL databases would be a bonus
• Experience with DevOps, infrastructure-as-code and test automation is an advantage.
• Experience developing and deploying in a Unix/Linux environment is a bonus

Pink, Perks, and Such:

Pendo was founded in 2013 by former product managers, who combined their heads and hearts to build something they wanted but never had as product managers -- a simple way to understand and attack what truly drives product success.  Our mission is to improve society's experience with software.

Come join one of the fastest-growing startups, supported by best-in-class institutions like Battery Ventures, Salesforce Ventures, Spark Capital and Meritech. You will gain experience in a diverse and exciting set of technologies and clients and have a real impact on Pendo's future. Our culture is passionate, dynamic, and fun.

Benefits:

• Company Equity
• Private Medical and Dental Benefits
• Generous Pension plan
• Bonus scheme
• Open vacation policy
• Free weekly lunches and fully stocked kitchen with drinks, goodies and balanced snacks
• Frequent company and team-building events
• Lots of company swag...hope you like pink!

We are an equal opportunity employer and believe having diverse teams in which everyone brings their whole self to Pendo is key to our success. We welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives.

Pendo's mission is to enable others to create software their users will love. We need forward-thinking, constantly curious, and engaged engineers to fulfil this mission. We strive to create an environment filled with challenges and supported by mentorship. As a software engineer at Pendo, you will have the opportunity to join one of our development teams building features that ship regularly to Pendo's ever-growing customer base. Whether you prefer to solve problems on the front end or back end of our code, your skills will be utilised, challenged, and developed on a daily basis. We don't put ceilings on growth here at Pendo; we encourage our engineers to take risks, think outside the box, and innovate - billions of software experiences depend on it!

This role is in our Sheffield, UK office. We are looking for someone to come and help us build great SaaS software in a fast-paced, fun, startup environment.

Responsibilities (what you’ll do):

• As a Software Engineer at Pendo, you’ll be part of a strong team, designing and building scalable, flexible software and writing maintainable, secure code.
• You’ll have an impact within your team and you’ll help improve your team’s output with code review and day-to-day engineering discussions, helping your team to overcome challenges.
• You’ll help to scope and estimate your team’s projects, you’ll help to break down your team’s problems into achievable tasks, and you’ll own significant parts of a project, whilst coordinating with your teammates and manager
• You’ll help your team to constantly improve and learn - by helping to identify problems and solving them constructively.
• You’ll be collaborating with our teams in Sheffield, and with our colleagues in Pendo’s other engineering locations in the USA and Israel.
• You’ll have a focus on high-quality, test-driven development and you’ll help with automation of testing too.
• You’ll contribute to the agile/scrum planning process within your team.

Qualifications (what you have):

• Applicants should have extensive experience in building large web applications in a modern language such as Go, Java, Python, or Ruby. 
• Experience with a javascript framework and an understanding of modern browser technologies is a definite bonus.
• A working knowledge of cloud environments such as AWS or GCP is a bonus.
• A working knowledge of SQL and NoSQL databases would be a bonus

Experience developing and deploying in a Unix/Linux environment is a bonus

Pink, Perks, and Such:

Pendo was founded in 2013 by former product managers, who combined their heads and hearts to build something they wanted but never had as product managers -- a simple way to understand and attack what truly drives product success.  Our mission is to improve society's experience with software.

Come join one of the fastest-growing startups, supported by best-in-class institutions like Battery Ventures, Salesforce Ventures, Spark Capital, and Meritech. You will gain experience in a diverse and exciting set of technologies and clients and have a real impact on Pendo's future. Our culture is passionate, dynamic, and fun.

Benefits:

• Company Equity
• Private Medical and Dental Benefits
• Generous Pension plan
• Bonus scheme
• Open vacation policy
• Free weekly lunches and a fully stocked kitchen with drinks, goodies, and balanced snacks
• Frequent company and team-building events
• Lots of company swag...hope you like pink!

We are an equal opportunity employer and believe having diverse teams in which everyone brings their whole self to Pendo is key to our success. We welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and perspectives.

We are looking for an individual who can help us take our testing to the next level while we build out a world-class testing organisation. You will work alongside our talented engineering product team to make sure everything we build is both testable and tested.

You’ll be involved from the early stages of new feature development to help us architect solutions which are built for testability from the ground up.

By being involved from the beginning, you'll be able to ensure that the new features we ship have strong test coverage and that will continue to function reliably as our product continues to evolve.

You will be coordinating between our team in Sheffield and the rest of the company in the UK, USA, and Israel.

Responsibilities (what you'll do):

• Perform manual end-to-end testing on new features.
• Perform manual regression tests on our releases.
• Participate in engineering and product planning to make sure new code is written with testing in mind.
• Author functional test cases for product enhancements and modifications (test scenarios, conditions and data) and assist with maintaining and improving existing test cases.
• Work closely with product, UX, and engineering teams to ensure newly delivered features meet customer needs and are consistent across the product.
• Become a subject matter expert that bridges the gaps between development, product, UX, and support.
• Contribute towards ongoing and new initiatives to ensure we maintain a rigorous, world-class testing approach.  

Qualifications (what you have):

• Experience with testing web applications
• Experience working in an Agile environment
• Testing complex systems
• Well organised
• Good communication / collaboration skills

Nice to Haves:

• Experience with Saas Products
• Test Automation (Cypress)
• Working experience in an enterprise company
• Working knowledge of API testing
• Working knowledge of TestRail

Pink, Perks, and Such:

Pendo was founded in 2013 by former product managers, who combined their heads and hearts to build something they wanted but never had as product managers -- a simple way to understand and attack what truly drives product success.  Our mission is to improve society's experience with software.

Come join one of the fastest-growing startups, supported by best-in-class institutions like Battery Ventures, Salesforce Ventures, Spark Capital and Meritech. You will gain experience in a diverse and exciting set of technologies and clients and have a real impact on Pendo's future. Our culture is passionate, dynamic, and fun.

We are an equal opportunity employer and believe having diverse teams in which everyone brings their whole self to Pendo is key to our success. We welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives.