Infrastructure specialist Review

by IBM

Best Apprenticeship Employer

Rating

8.7/10
  • 1. Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis:

    • Job role: Infrastructure specialist Daily tasks: Development, networking, Hardware config + maintenance, setting up virtual environments, environment architecture, Asset management. Internal: JCL, GTS, OIS, Blue Harmony, smarter commerce (boots, homebase, waitrose) External: None. Resonsablilty: look at daily jobs. Projects: Infrastructure Consultancy Delivery Service.

    8/10
  • 2. Have you learnt any new skills or developed existing skills?

    • Qualifications: Advanced apprenticeship Interal: proejct management, sales, programming Professional: Code (PHP, JAVA, Javascript, HTML, Perl, CSS) assetmanagement/logistics. Networking, virtualisation.

    8/10
  • 3. To what extent do you enjoy your programme?

    • I love the team that I work in. the felxability of my job and mostly the pay. as It gives me a great head start in life.

    9/10
  • 4. How valued do you feel by IBM?

    • I feel valued as a resource and as a person. I look forward to my career with them.

    9/10
  • 5. How well organised/structured is your programme?

    • Very well structured. Set foundation learning + flexable external learning.

    9/10
  • 6a. How much support do you receive from your training provider?

    • Lots they are always willing to help.

    9/10
  • 6b. How much support do you receive from your employer?

    • Same person as above. All IBM tranning is internal.

    9/10
  • 7. How well does your salary/package meet your costs?

    • It meets them well.

    8/10
  • 8. Are there many opportunities outside of work?

    • Yes lots of events and soical meetings.

    9/10
  • 9. Would you recommend IBM to a friend?

    • Yes

  • 9b. Why?

    • Oppertunities.

  • 10. What tips or advice would you give to others applying to IBM?

    • Be yourself. Thats who they want to employ.

Details

Level 3 Apprenticeship

Business Operations, Information Technology

South East

January 2014

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