DevOps Industrial Placement

Job summary

This 12-month university industrial placement supports the development and operation of an engineering platform and production environments, with a focus on DevOps, cloud infrastructure, and automation. The placement involves building CI/CD pipelines in GitHub and Azure, writing infrastructure as code for repeatable Azure environments, automating engineering-tool administration, and improving monitoring, logging, and security alerting. It also offers exposure to AI and data-driven automation in engineering workflows.

Benefits

Qualifications

• University placement student undertaking a year in industry as part of a course
• Curiosity about how systems work and how to improve their speed, reliability, and security
• Motivation, teamwork, communication, and organisational skills
• Interest or experience in Linux, networking, or cloud platforms such as Azure
• Interest or experience in scripting, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, or delivery security checks
• Interest or experience with Docker or Kubernetes and monitoring or logging tools
• Interest in data-driven systems, machine learning, or intelligent automation

Responsibilities

• Develop and operate the engineering platform, including environment builds and runbooks
• Automate engineering-tool administration, including user onboarding, usage reporting, and licence management
• Build and improve CI/CD pipelines in GitHub and Azure
• Implement automated security scanning and route alerts to the appropriate engineers
• Write infrastructure as code for repeatable Azure environments
• Set up monitoring and logging to identify issues early
• Explore AI and automation tools to improve engineering speed and reliability

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Industry

Contract length

Relocation