DevOps Industrial Placement

Description

At Griffiths Waite (GW), we design and build innovative digital solutions for enterprise clients, combining strong engineering principles, modern technologies, and a culture of learning. Our placements offer the opportunity to work alongside experienced platform and software engineers while developing real-world skills in cloud infrastructure, automation, and deployment.

You'll be part of a collaborative agile team, helping to design, build, and maintain the platforms that power our digital products. You'll gain hands-on experience with Azure cloud services, GitHub, Linux environments and infrastructure-as-code practices, while learning how to automate builds, deployments, monitoring, and the administration of the engineering tools our teams use.

While the focus of this placement is on DevOps and Platform Engineering, we also welcome applicants with an interest or developing skills in data science, artificial intelligence or intelligent automation, as these areas are increasingly shaping how we deliver and operate our solutions.

We're looking for curious, motivated individuals with a natural flair for infrastructure and cloud engineering, who enjoy solving complex problems and working with modern DevOps tooling. Experience or interest in containers (such as Docker or Kubernetes) and observability tools would be a great bonus.

What you'll get from us

• Structured onboarding, including an 8-week training period where you'll build a real product using our core technologies.
• A placement plan with clear, agreed outcomes, including a named contribution to GW's engineering platform.
• Mentoring and one-to-one guidance from experienced Platform and DevOps engineers.
• The chance to work on challenging, high-impact client projects.
• Exposure to modern DevOps practices including CI/CD, automation, and cloud-native development.
• A friendly, inclusive culture built around our values: Brilliance, Trust, Collaboration, and Ownership.

By the end of the placement, you'll have developed practical experience in building and supporting production environments, taken ownership of a defined part of GW's engineering platform, gained a strong understanding of DevOps principles, and explored how emerging technologies such as AI and data-driven automation are transforming modern engineering.

What you'll be doing

• Helping to develop and run GW's engineering platform, including environment builds and the runbooks that let others operate them.
• Automating the administration of the engineering tools our teams use, such as user onboarding, usage reporting, and license management.
• Building and improving CI/CD pipelines in GitHub and Azure, including automated security scanning and alerts that reach the right engineer.
• Writing infrastructure as code for consistent, repeatable Azure environments.
• Setting up monitoring and logging so issues are spotted and fixed early.
• Exploring where AI and automation tools genuinely make our engineering faster or more reliable.

Do you have

• A natural curiosity for how systems work and how to make them faster, more reliable, and secure.
• A strong team-working ethic with excellent self-motivation.
• Good communication and organizational skills.
• A passion for technology and an eagerness to learn from experienced engineers.

A flair for one or more of the following

• Infrastructure and cloud engineering: Experience or interest in Linux, networking, or cloud platforms such as Azure.
• Automation and DevOps practices: Scripting, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, or building security checks into delivery.
• Containers and observability: Working with Docker or Kubernetes, and monitoring or logging tools.
• Data and AI: An understanding or curiosity for data-driven systems, machine learning, or intelligent automation.

We're looking for individuals who enjoy solving real-world problems, want to develop hands-on technical skills, and are excited to explore how DevOps, data, and AI come together to power modern digital solutions.

Accepted degree subjects

• Computer Science
• Information Technology / Computing
• Other

Accepted degree subjects detail

• Artificial Intelligence
• Data Science

About Griffiths Waite Limited

Main business: IT and technology

Griffiths Waite (GW) is an independent software company based in Birmingham, specializing in the design and delivery of innovative digital products for some of the UK's leading organizations.

Established in 1994, we combine strong engineering principles with creative thinking to build high-quality, user-focused solutions. Our teams work across software development, platform engineering, security, data, AI, and automation, driven by our core values of Brilliance, Trust, Collaboration, and Ownership.