DevOps Engineer Degree Apprentice Review

by KPMG

Best Apprenticeship Employer

Rating

8/10

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

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

8/10

2. Have you learnt any new skills or developed existing skills?

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.

10/10

3. To what extent do you enjoy your programme?

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.

9/10

4. How well organised/structured is your programme?

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.

6/10

5. How much support do you receive from your employer?

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.

9/10

6. How much support do you receive from your training provider when working towards your qualifications?

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

8/10

7. How well do you feel that your qualification (through your training provider) helps you to perform better in your role?

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.

6/10

8. Are there extra-curricular activities to get involved in at your work? (For example, any social activities, sports teams, or even professional networking events.)

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.

8/10

9a. Would you recommend KPMG to a friend?

Yes

9b. Why?

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.

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

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.