"*" indicates required fields 1Details2Knowledge3Skills4Behaviours5Qualifications, Prior Learning & Experience Welcome to the Corndel Dev Ops Level 4 Skills Radar. This skills radar is a self assessment tool that is used to confirm your eligibility for this apprenticeship, and to help us to understand your current level of knowledge, skills and behaviours against those of this programme. If you hold qualifications, or have prior learning or experience related to this programme we will contact you to discuss this further, as you may not be eligible for government funding. Unique IDHiddenDate of completion DD slash MM slash YYYY Your detailsName* First Last Aptem email address* Enter Email Confirm Email Employer* Job title* Your data will be processed by Corndel in accordance with their Privacy Policy.Privacy policy* Please tick here to confirm your consent* The statements below cover the knowledge that you will learn and develop on this programme. Using the 1-10 guidance below, please assess your current level of knowledge and experience in relation to the level of this programme. 1-2: I have no prior learning or experience and cannot demonstrate this. 3-4: I have some prior learning or experience and demonstrate this inconsistently. 5-6: I have moderate prior learning or experience and demonstrate this occasionally. 7-8: I have good, or very good prior learning or experience and demonstrate this often. 9: I have extensive prior learning or experience and demonstrate this to an exemplary standard. 10: I am an expert and have nothing further to learn. Knowledge - Part 1:*12345678910Different organisational cultures, the development frameworks utilised and how they can both complement each other and introduce constraints on delivery.The importance of continual improvement within a blameless culture.Roles within a multidisciplinary team and the interfaces with other areas of an organisation.How your occupation fits into the wider digital landscape and any current or future regulatory requirements.The business value of DevOps in terms of Time, Cost, Quality, with an emphasis on building in internal Quality throughout the lifetime of the product.Different methods of communication and choosing the appropriate one - e.g. face-to-face (synchronous, high bandwidth), instant messaging, email (asynchronous, low bandwidth), visualisations vs. words.How the user experience sits at the heart of modern development practices in terms of strategies to understand diverse user needs, accessibility and how to drive adoption.How to use data ethically and the implications for wider society, with respect to the use of data, automation and artificial intelligence within the context of relevant data protection policy and legislation.How best to secure data; e.g. encryption in transit, encryption at rest and access control lists (ACL).Knowledge - Part 2:*12345678910An awareness of cloud certification requirements.Architecture principles, common patterns and common strategies for translating user needs into both cloud infrastructure and application code.The difference between Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) v bespoke v enterprise tooling and how to make an informed choice that suits each use case.Immutable infrastructure and how it enables continuous refreshing of software, namely the updating of the operating system, container and security patching.Continuous Integration - the benefits of frequent merging of code.The principles and application of Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery and Continuous Deployment, including the differences between them.A range of modern security tools and techniques - e.g. threat modelling, vulnerability scanning and dependency checking, with a general awareness of penetration testing - in order to deal with threats and attack vectors within code and across the cyber domain.Monitoring and alerting technologies and an awareness of the insights that can be derived from the infrastructure and applications - collecting logs and metrics, configuring alerting thresholds, firing alerts and visualising data.A range of problem solving techniques appropriate to the task at hand, such as affinity mapping, impact maps, plan-do-check-act/Deming.Knowledge - Part 3:*12345678910The persistence/data layer, including which database/storage technologies are appropriate to each platform type and application when considering non-functional and functional needs; e.g. monolith, microservice, read heavy, write heavy, recovery plans.Test Driven Development and the Test Pyramid and how the practice is underpinned by unit testing.The importance of automation, appropriate use of test doubles and mocking strategies, reducing a reliance on end-to-end testing.General purpose programming and infrastructure-as-code.Pair/mob programming techniques and when to use each technique.The creation of build artefacts and ensuring all tests pass, with automation throughout - including common tooling.The principles of distributed Source Control, including how to exploit the features of the tool, such as branching.What an API is, how to find them and interpret the accompanying documentation.Automation techniques, such as scripting and use of APIs. The statements below cover the skills that you will learn and develop on this programme. Using the 1-10 guidance below, please assess your current level of skills and experience in relation to the level of this programme. 1-2: I have no prior learning or experience and cannot demonstrate this. 3-4: I have some prior learning or experience and demonstrate this inconsistently. 5-6: I have moderate prior learning or experience and demonstrate this occasionally. 7-8: I have good, or very good prior learning or experience and demonstrate this often. 9: I have extensive prior learning or experience and demonstrate this to an exemplary standard. 10: I am an expert and have nothing further to learn. Skills - Part 1:*12345678910Communicate credibly with technical and non-technical people at all levels, using a range of methods; e.g. ‘Show and Tell’ and ‘Demonstrations’.Work within different organisational cultures with both internal and external parties.Work in agile, multi-disciplinary delivery teams, taking a flexible, collaborative and pragmatic approach to delivering tasks.Initiate and facilitate knowledge sharing and technical collaboration.Invest in continuous learning, both your own development and others, ensuring learning activities dovetail with changing job requirements. Keep up with cutting edge technology.Translate user needs into deliverable tasks, writing clear, concise and unambiguous user stories that the whole team can understand.Application of lightweight modelling techniques, such as whiteboarding, in order to gain consensus as a team on evolving architecture.Skills - Part 2:*12345678910Automate tasks where it introduces improvements to the efficiency of business processes and reduces waste, considering the effort and cost of automation.Deploy immutable infrastructure.Install, manage and troubleshoot monitoring tools.Navigate and troubleshoot stateful distributed systems, in order to locate issues across the end-to-end service.Assess identified and potential security threats and take appropriate action based on likelihood v impact.Application of a range of cloud security tools and techniques - e.g. threat modelling, vulnerability scanning, dependency checking, reducing attack surface area - incorporating these tools and techniques into the automated pipeline wherever possible.Specify cloud infrastructure in an infrastructure-as-code domain-specific language.Skills - Part 3:*12345678910Code in a general purpose programming language.Writing code in such a way that makes merging easier and facilitates branching by abstraction - i.e. feature toggling.Engage in productive pair/mob programming.Incremental refactoring by applying small behaviour-preserving code changes to evolve the architecture.Release automation and orchestration as part of a Continuous Integration workflow and Continuous Delivery pipeline, automating the delivery of code from source control to the end users.Write tests and follow Test Driven Development discipline in various different contexts.Interpret logs and metrics data within the appropriate context to identify issues and make informed decisions.Employ a systematic approach to solving problems, using logic and hypotheses / experimentation to identify the source of issues. The statements below cover the behaviours that you will learn and develop on this programme. Using the 1-10 guidance below, please assess your current level against the behaviours, in relation to the level of this programme. 1-2: I have no prior learning or experience and cannot demonstrate this. 3-4: I have some prior learning or experience and demonstrate this inconsistently. 5-6: I have moderate prior learning or experience and demonstrate this occasionally. 7-8: I have good, or very good prior learning or experience and demonstrate this often. 9: I have extensive prior learning or experience and demonstrate this to an exemplary standard. 10: I am an expert and have nothing further to learn. Behaviours:*12345678910Exhibits enthusiasm, openness and an aptitude for working as part of a collaborative community; e.g. sharing best practice, pairing with team members, learning from others and engaging in peer review practices.Invests time and effort in their own development, recognising that technology evolves at a rapid rate.Displays a commitment to the mantra 'You build it, you run it', taking ownership of deployed code and being accountable for its continual improvement, learning from experience and taking collective responsibility when things fail.Is inclusive, professional and maintains a blameless culture. Have you previously achieved a qualification equivalent to a level 4 (e.g. certificate of higher education (CertHE) and/or higher national certificate (HNC) or above?* Yes No Please list all relevant qualifications*Click on the (+) to add further qualificationsTitleLevel Add RemoveOther work experience Tick here if you have any other work experience that may be relevant to this apprenticeship that could affect your eligibility. Please provide details:* SignatureHiddenDate DD slash MM slash YYYY
