Cyber Security Engineer Apprentice
You’ll work alongside experienced cloud and security engineers, learning how cyber security concepts are applied in practice to real customer environments. This is an opportunity to gain hands-on, real-world experience securing modern cloud environments, with a strong focus on AWS-based infrastructure.
Role
- Apply core cyber security concepts to AWS-based cloud environments, including identity, network, workload, and data security
- Advise on protection against common cloud and AWS threats, such as misconfigurations, excessive permissions, exposed services, and insecure workloads
- Identify, assess, and help remediate common cloud misconfigurations across AWS accounts and services
- Identify and support the resolution of vulnerabilities on cloud-based workloads, including virtual machines and containerised applications
- Monitor and respond to security alerts generated by security tooling, escalating and investigating issues with support from senior engineers
- Administer and support security tooling, including native AWS security services and third-party platforms
- Produce security insight and posture reports that help customers understand their current risk and improvement areas
- Assist in developing remediation plans for security findings, vulnerabilities, and configuration issues
- Support the implementation of cyber security tools and services within customer cloud environments
- Advise on compliance and regulatory alignment, helping customers understand how security controls map to frameworks and standards (e.g. ISO, CIS, NIST, etc.)
- Maintain clear documentation of findings, actions taken, and recommendations
Training
Why choose our Cyber Security Engineer Level 4 Apprenticeship?
The Cyber Security Engineer apprentice can help to design, build and test secure networks, security products or systems to help protect your organisation against cyber threats.
QA is a market leader in cyber security training, with a state-of-the-art immersive cyber gamified learning, giving apprentices a hands-on learning experience in simulating a real cyber threat.
QA's exclusive partnership with Circadence Corporation, the pioneer of the hands-on gamified learning platform Project Ares®, allows us to uniquely incorporate hands-on scenario training into our cyber security apprenticeships. The Project Ares platform offers a totally immersive experience, using automated features to support skills adoption with an in-game advisor, Athena, who advises our players through scenario-based challenges. The platform scenarios replicate the unpredictability and escalating levels of complexity that cyberattacks can present. It drives high levels of engagement through leaderboards and badges, elements used widely in the gaming world.
QA’s Cyber Security Engineer Level 4 apprenticeship programme enables the apprentice to:
- Develop problem-solving and critical thinking skills in a safe, but realistic environment
- Apply all of the acquired skills throughout the programme, with added scoring of players and opponent actions with replay for object assessment
- Take part in hands-on training and active-learning models that increase retention rates by 75% so that cyber apprentices can prepare for real-world challenges
Tools and technologies learned:
- Apprentices will learn to use Project Ares, Python, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft PowerShell, Linux and AWS
- 90% of QA apprentices secure permanent employment after completing: this is 20% higher than the national average
- Apprenticeship Standard
- Cyber security technologist (2021) (level 4)
- Training Provider
- QA LIMITED
- Working Week
- Days and shifts to be confirmed.
- Expected Duration
- 1 Year 8 Months
- Positions Available
- 1
- Closing Date
- Tuesday, 10th February 2026
- Start Date
- Tuesday, 17th February 2026
Desired Skills
- Communication skills
- IT skills
- Problem solving skills