Job Description
What you'll be doing Join us on a 20-month programme in which you will complete a Microsoft Azure Cloud Support Specialist Level 3 apprenticeship qualification, whilst building on your technical skills, problem solving, effective communication and teamwork. You’ll receive on the job training and coaching from your line manager. Alongside this you’ll complete training workshops and assignments, delivered by a leading apprenticeship training provider. Combined, these will fully equip you to be successful in your role, with the knowledge and skills required to apply to real world business challenges.During your apprenticeship you will:
1. Understand and have exposure; to all the components that make up an enterprise level cloud deployment.
2. Learn all the proactive activities required to ensure key business systems and services are running optimally, preventing, or reducing the likelihood of, service impacting events.
3. Assist in the diagnosis of IT problems/faults, using the required troubleshooting methodology and tools.
4. When a cloud based, or on-premises, system fails; you will be engaged to assist in the resolution of the incident.
5. Contribute to the team’s responsibilities in delivering proactive maintenance activities including Operating System OS Patching and Business Continuity Testing.
6. Collaborate with other team members to support the delivery of changes to the deployed Tier 0 Infrastructure.
7. Help your team to ensure that all customers and stakeholders are treated fairly in line with Legal & General’s principles on the Customer Experience and Treating Customers Fairly policy.
8. Have guidance from your team and manager who will support you and teach you the day-to-day role
9. Apply the knowledge and skills that you’ve learnt from your training into the role
10. Be part of a big team and develop your collaboration skills
11. Have the opportunity to meet and network with new colleagues within your team, but also across the wider organisation
Qualifications What we're looking for The person who would most benefit and enjoy this programme is hungry to learn and eager to get started in the world of work. We’re not expecting prior industry experience, but we’ll want to see that you have the aptitude, potential and desire which will ultimately lead to you being successful. We’ll teach you the rest!To qualify for the programme, you will need:
12. 3 GCSEs (or equivalent) at grades 4+ (A-C) in any subject
13. GCSE Maths and English (or equivalents) at grades 3+ (D or above)
14. Prospective apprentices must not hold an existing qualification at the same or higher level as this apprenticeship in a similar subject
Additional InformationWhat is the assessment process?
Our Assessment process typically involves the following stages, but may vary slightly from scheme to scheme. Application form
15. Captures essential information from candidate and is an opportunity to provide their CV
Online tests
16. Includes multiple choice questions and a video interview. The online test asks a number of behavioural questions to help us understand more about candidates' strengths. There is also an analytical component which assesses numerical reasoning skills. In the video interview, we will ask 3 core questions focusing on motivation to join L&G, as well as the candidates approach to learning.
Assessment centre (either face to face or virtual) comprised of:
17. Group Exercise - candidates are given a task to work on in groups of up to 6 and observed
18. Interview - Conducted by 2 assessors, 45 minutes including time for questions from the candidate, questions include competency and commercial based questions
19. Presentation - 15 minutes in duration, 10 minutes to present and 5 minutes for questions from assessor
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