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    The University of Manchester is a truly global institution with a reputation for education and innovation that resonates across the world, offering a wide range of courses and boasting outstanding facilities in the centre of Manchester. With 25 Nobel Prize winners among its current and former staff and students, it has a history of world firsts and brilliant discoveries. Manchester’s industrial and cultural heritage is mirrored by the achievements of some of the University’s most celebrated names. The computer revolution started here in June 1948 when a machine built by Tom Kilburn and Sir Freddie Williams, known affectionately as ‘The Baby’, ran its first stored program. The celebrated wartime codebreaker Alan Turing worked on this computer during his time at Manchester.

    The University is committed to world-class research, an outstanding learning and student experience and social responsibility in everything it does. It is making one of the largest investments in facilities ever seen at a UK university, with £750 million spent so far and a further £1 billion to follow by 2022. Its goal is to become one of the world’s leading Universities.

    About IT Services

    IT Services at the University of Manchester is a vibrant and fast-moving department, we focus on delivering excellent customer service and quality services for our staff, students and researchers.

    Find out more about our organisation and values:

    • IT Services: About us and ITS Practice Charter
    • Benefits of working at The University of Manchester

    The team

    The Microservices team is part Applications Team of the wider Engineering team in IT Services. We are responsible for the development and maintenance of a number of RESTful web services that interact with different business areas such as timetabling, finance, and student services. The Team also looks after a number of different areas which including Jira/Confluence administration, CMS systems such as WordPress, and Terminal Four.

    The role

    We are offering one fully paid 12-month internship to work in our Microservices team in the Applications Team in IT Services. The Applications Analyst intern will be supporting the Microservices Team primarily in assisting with assignments on an ongoing project. The project activities will involve a mix of troubleshooting service issues, custom new development activity in JavaScript/NodeJS, working on upgrades or patches following security audits, spinning up new environments, configuration of the build and deploy pipelines in in a Cloud platform. You will also be required to provide support assistance on various SaaS products being used on the project.

    We will provide supervision and a supportive environment to help you get up to speed with the technologies and tools that we use in the team.

    The successful candidate will have

    Essential knowledge / experience

    • Working towards or completed Computer Science Degree or similar.
    • Proficiency in programming, particularly in languages such as JavaScript, TypeScript, or PHP.
    • Understanding of RESTful API design principles and best practices for both creating and utilizing APIs.
    • Awareness of deploying applications on cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
    • Good communication skills with ability to work with multiple teams in a large organization.
    • Ability to keep track on multiple streams of work.

    Desirable knowledge / experience

    • Familiarity with containerization technologies like Docker.
    • CI/CD pipelines and tools like Gitlab, Azure DevOps for automating build, test and deployment processes.
    • Experience in Jira/Confluence Administration.
    • Working in a Higher Education environment.
    • Knowledge of ITIL processes.

    When addressing the person specification criteria in your application for this role, please ensure you make reference to the specific role requirements above.

    What you will get in return

    • Fantastic market leading Pension scheme
    • Excellent employee health and wellbeing services including an Employee Assistance Programme
    • Exceptional starting annual leave entitlement, plus bank holidays
    • Additional paid closure over the Christmas period
    • Local and national discounts at a range of major retailers

    As an equal opportunities employer we welcome applicants from all sections of the community regardless of age, sex, gender (or gender identity), ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation and transgender status. All appointments are made on merit.