Academy Engineer

BELONG. There’s no place like Principality.

Our home is your home. So, when you decide to join the team, we’ll go further to bring you the warmest of welcomes. From a friendly and inviting environment to a flexible benefit package designed around you – when it comes to belonging, there really is no place like Principality. We keep it flexible wherever possible; we encourage you to look after yourself; we do our bit in the communities we serve and support you in doing the same, and we promise to get better together.

Some reasons you may want to consider working with us; we have an award-winning flexible/hybrid working policy, we’re a 2022 winner of UK Best Large Workplaces for Women, we have a refurbished hi-tech office in the centre of Cardiff designed around colleague feedback, we ranked number 6 for wellbeing in 2022,  we have an extensive financial and well-being benefits package ‘’Belong’’ designed to put our people first, we have consistent colleague engagement scores of over 85% and a caring community of supportive Networks. But that’s not all, discover why there’s really no place like Principality; https://www.principality.co.uk/careers

Are you looking to start career in IT? If the answer is yes, Principality’s Platforms & Engineering team are hiring an Academy Engineer.

This rare opportunity will see the successful applicant gaining experience in Agile and DevOps principles. This is an entry level role, where you will be given the time and space to learn and gain accreditation in our technology stack and learn ways of working with guidance and coaching from the wider community.

As our Academy Engineer you will be working directly with our Technical Leads and Platform Engineers to share knowledge, helping build our standards and ways of working across teams and value streams.

Day to Day for the Academy Engineer will see you:

• Solving business problems by providing support to our Change teams (Developers, QAs), and being involved in IT platform maintenance and delivery.
• Providing support to production.
• Working in a scrum team.
• Developing self to move out of Academy.

Key Skills:

• Good communication
• Ability to collaborate
• Problem solver
• High level of attention to detail

Our Tech Stack:

• Azure
• Microsoft Windows & SQL Server
• Infrastructure as Code / Automation Tools: Terraform, PowerShell

This is a development role building towards a career in a chosen specialism.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early should we receive a high volume of applications. 

If you have any questions in relation to this role, please contact the recruitment team at -recruitment@principality.co.uk

‘’We are passionate about creating an inclusive workplace where diversity is celebrated and where colleagues feel a sense of belonging’’ Daniel Priest, Inclusion Manager. But don’t just take our word for it, see what our colleagues say about working here too; Careers (principality.co.uk)