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Network Engineering L6 Apprentice
| Posting date: | 04 March 2025 |
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| Salary: | £21,480 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 03 April 2025 |
| Location: | Birmingham, West Midlands |
| Remote working: | On-site only |
| Company: | BT Group |
| Job type: | Apprenticeship |
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Summary
Why this role matters: We’re one of the world’s leading communications services companies. The services we sell are integral to modern life and delivered over our networks. Our Apprentice Network Engineers play a key part to ensure that our networks are designed, tested, built and maintained with fresh, new, innovative ideas in mind.
What you’ll be doing: We’ll get you working on real projects from day one, learning the skills and experience you’ll need right away on the job. You’ll get involved in things like testing the latest networking technology, upgrading the existing network and the planning, installing and running of network elements. And don’t forget, we don’t just do broadband and landlines, we do mobile networks too. You’ll gain an in-depth understanding of the technology that underpins what we do, playing a part in supporting and maintaining high levels of stability and performance of the biggest and best mobile network in the UK.
You’ll learn how to design, build, test configure and optimise a distributed network, as well as how to analyse network performance and troubleshoot typical problems in networks. We’ll teach you how to identify and evaluate network security risks, and how to incorporate this into your network designs to ensure our network is secure, resilient and dependable.
You’ll develop an understanding of the “magic numbering scheme” called IP addressing (Internet Protocol) that helps spin the world-wide web and connect billions of devices and users across the globe. You will also learn how streaming content (CDN) works to provide you movies from likes of Netflix/Amazon/YouTube on to your device.
You’ll develop the skills to learn how to secure wired & wireless networks, control device logins’ admin & user access, authentication and network automation. You will also learn how to log network events, monitor your network activities and much, much….more!!
Don’t worry if this is all new, you’re not expected to join us with any prior experience in this, we’ll teach you everything you need to know.
The apprentice training course: As an Apprentice Network Engineer, you’ll study for a Level 6 (degree) apprenticeship in Network Engineering.
What you’ll be doing: We’ll get you working on real projects from day one, learning the skills and experience you’ll need right away on the job. You’ll get involved in things like testing the latest networking technology, upgrading the existing network and the planning, installing and running of network elements. And don’t forget, we don’t just do broadband and landlines, we do mobile networks too. You’ll gain an in-depth understanding of the technology that underpins what we do, playing a part in supporting and maintaining high levels of stability and performance of the biggest and best mobile network in the UK.
You’ll learn how to design, build, test configure and optimise a distributed network, as well as how to analyse network performance and troubleshoot typical problems in networks. We’ll teach you how to identify and evaluate network security risks, and how to incorporate this into your network designs to ensure our network is secure, resilient and dependable.
You’ll develop an understanding of the “magic numbering scheme” called IP addressing (Internet Protocol) that helps spin the world-wide web and connect billions of devices and users across the globe. You will also learn how streaming content (CDN) works to provide you movies from likes of Netflix/Amazon/YouTube on to your device.
You’ll develop the skills to learn how to secure wired & wireless networks, control device logins’ admin & user access, authentication and network automation. You will also learn how to log network events, monitor your network activities and much, much….more!!
Don’t worry if this is all new, you’re not expected to join us with any prior experience in this, we’ll teach you everything you need to know.
The apprentice training course: As an Apprentice Network Engineer, you’ll study for a Level 6 (degree) apprenticeship in Network Engineering.