Apprentice DevOps Engineer

About Liatrio

Liatrio is a boutique DevOps consulting firm aiming to help enterprises deliver software faster, safer and more efficiently. We do this by working with leadership and hands-on-keyboard engineers to uplift people and process. We have helped lead DevOps transformations in different industries anywhere from financial institutions to healthcare providers. We are a small company that makes a big impact, so get ready to dig in and innovate!

Why Apprentice at Liatrio?

At Liatrio our apprenticeship program is an important investment in the future of our company. As apprentices learn skills that will help them finish school (yes, professors are impressed when you create an automated pipeline for your capstone project) and prepare for their career, they also become ideal candidates for a full-time position at Liatrio. Liatrio is able to cultivate talented engineers by equipping them with modern engineering methodology and business skills which puts them far ahead of their peers. Junior Liatrio engineers also avoid a purely software development track at large corporations, where there is a heavy reliance on legacy technologies and practices which expose them to software development antipatterns and a high rate of burnout due to bureaucracy. Because of the value of the apprenticeship program Liatrio does not hire graduating students outside of the apprenticeship program. Over 80% of apprentices join Liatrio full time and help build the future of Liatrio!

What Liatrio Apprentices Do

As an Apprentice DevOps Engineer at Liatrio, you will learn how to improve the software delivery of enterprise organizations. With a focus on the tools, processes, and culture needed to transform these organizations to be high-performing, modernized software companies, this is a career-building opportunity to gain industry insight at the broadest level. Your goal will be to learn how to be a change agent that can show others the Liatrio way of DevOps and prepare for a full-time position with Liatrio when you graduate.

This is a year-long paid apprenticeship which is intended to coincide with the last two semesters of school before graduation. Our office in downtown Chico makes it easy to work around school schedules and provide a collaborative hands-on work experience. We expect students to work 15-20 hours per week during the semesters and 30-40 hours per week when classes are not in session.

What Liatrio Apprentices Learn

The apprenticeship combines hands-on learning exercises and practical experience working on internal projects to build the skills needed to start a career as a DevOps Engineer. Apprentices collaborate with other apprentices and with full-time Liatrio engineers to experience working as part of a fully collaborative team and gain practical real-world experience with some of the most in-demand tools and methodologies in the IT industry.

​​Application Development / SDLC / CI/CD

• Build systems such as Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, and Jenkins
• Application development and testing with Go, Java, Javascript, .NET or Python
• Using modern source control management systems and branching strategies

Infrastructure Automation / Cloud

• Developing, managing and testing Infrastructure as Code with Terraform, Ansible, Chef, or Puppet
• Cloud native platforms such as AWS, Azure, and GCP
• Cloud native technologies such as Kubernetes and Istio
• Observability through tools such as Prometheus, Elasticsearch, Grafana, or Zipkin

What Makes a Great Apprentice

• We are looking for students who are excited about improving the way software is built and delivered, making software infrastructure more robust and resilient, and learning how new technologies will shape the future of software delivery.
• The ideal candidate should have some of these traits:
• You are technologically-inclined. You have a hobby or academic interest related to source control management, build tools, automation, cloud computing, or containerization.
• You are a frequent and responsive communicator including online and in person. You are open and willing to learn about new technologies, as we will teach you the fundamentals you need to know about DevOps.
• You have learned new technologies to aid yourself in your school assignments or hobbies. You find the best tool for the job as opposed to using something you already know.
• You enjoy working with others. On group assignments, you uplift other people instead of speeding past them.

Liatrio is an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity at our company and strive to create a culture of inclusion. We do not discriminate, nor do we tolerate harassment, on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status or disability status.

We want our process to be accessible for everyone. If you have a disability under the Americans with Disabilities Act or similar law, or you require a religious accommodation, and you wish to discuss potential accommodations related to applying for employment at our company, please contact [email protected] .

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.