IT Apprentice
A vital role in assisting colleagues with software and hardware issues or queries. This includes ensuring that all support calls are answered promptly, accurately logged, and managed efficiently, delivering immediate resolutions where possible and escalating more complex issues to other team members or third-party vendors when appropriate.
Role
- Support: Respond to all 1st line support requests and issues from internal and external staff in line with defined service level targets, ensuring timely and effective resolution or escalation.
- System health monitoring: Perform proactive checks on Golfbreaks hardware, software, and IT services to ensure ongoing efficiency, availability, and security of the infrastructure.
- Maintenance: Maintain, and where appropriate, repair components of the physical and virtual environment to ensure systems remain operational, current, and accessible to end users.
- Hardware and software tasks: Carry out software installations, updates, and hardware upgrades as required to support user needs and system performance.
- Business continuity: Manage the organisation’s primary backup systems and data in accordance with the documented Business Continuity strategy to ensure consistent and reliable backup availability.
- Documentation: Produce and maintain clear, accurate documentation of IT systems, processes, and workarounds for both end-user guidance and internal IT reference.
- Project work: Support the development of existing systems or implementation of new technologies by contributing to assigned project tasks as needed.
- Training and user guidance: Provide ad-hoc advice and informal training to end users to enhance their understanding and effective use of available technologies, improving their day-to-day.
Training
Why choose our Azure Cloud Support Specialist apprenticeship?
The new Microsoft Azure Cloud Support Specialist Level 3 programme has been designed in partnership with Microsoft to build Azure cloud capabilities in your organisation.
This new Microsoft apprenticeship is part of QA's drive to support Microsoft’s Get On 2021 campaign, a five-year initiative to help 1.5 million people build careers in technology and help 300,000 connect to tech job opportunities.
QA’s Azure Cloud Support Specialist Level 3 apprenticeship programme enables the apprentice to:
- Learn on-premise and cloud-enabled technologies and services
- Learn technical content that aligns to and is relevant to employers and the market
- Gain an Azure Fundamentals Qualification and a Microsoft 365 fundamentals qualification
- Get an introduction to Windows, Linux and PowerShell
Tools and technologies learned: Learners will learn to use Microsoft Azure, Microsoft 365, Windows 10, AWS, Linux, PowerShell.
The possibility of full-time employment.
- Apprenticeship Standard
- Information communications technician (level 3)
- Training Provider
- QA LIMITED
- Working Week
- Days and shifts to be confirmed.
- Expected Duration
- 1 Year 5 Months
- Positions Available
- 1
- Closing Date
- Wednesday, 3rd September 2025
- Start Date
- Wednesday, 10th September 2025
Desired Skills
- Communication skills
- Attention to detail
- Problem solving skills
- Team working
Qualifications
- 3 of any subject GCSE, grade 4+ (A* - C) (Essential)
- Maths & English GCSE, grade 3+ (D or above) (Essential)
About the Employer
Golfbreaks Ltd
With over 25 years’ experience, Golfbreaks are the world’s number 1 rated golf tour operator with over 90,000 5-star reviews. We are renowned for delivering outstanding choice, value and service, whilst providing the reassurance and security of booking with a fully bonded travel company (both ABTOT and ATOL in the UK). We have 150+ staff based at our head office in Windsor, Berkshire – we also have offices in Charleston, South Carolina and Copenhagen, Denmark, from which our North American and Scandinavian operations are run.
- Company
- Golfbreaks Ltd
- Location
- Minton Place, Victoria Street, Windsor, Berkshire, England
- Employment Type
- Advanced Apprenticeship
- Salary
- £18,000 a year
- Posted
- Company
- Golfbreaks Ltd
- Location
- Minton Place, Victoria Street, Windsor, Berkshire, England
- Employment Type
- Advanced Apprenticeship
- Salary
- £18,000 a year
- Posted