Cloud Platform Engineer Review
at Motability Operations
Placement (10 Months+)
Computer Systems Engineering
Southwark
Review Submitted: November 2022
Overall Rating
4.8 /5
The Overall Rating is the average of all the ratings given in each category. We take those individual ratings and combine them into one final score!
4/5
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Overview of Role
4.8/5
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Skills Development
5/5
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Support and Guidance
4.8/5
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Company Culture
5/5
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Overall Experience
5/5
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Future Career Prospects
Overview of Role
Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis.
Monitoring and responding to incidents and requests relating to the Cloud Platform. Users of the Cloud Platform will either raise a support ticket or communicate their issue/request via email or Slack.
Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?
Yes, I was treated the same as any other employee and was given a high level of responsibility (e.g. managing production environments) from a very early stage.
Please rate how meaningful the work you were doing was
4/5
Skills Development
Have you learnt any new skills, or developed your existing skills?
I've built on the foundational knowledge I gained at university and have learned many new skills and new technologies such as: Linux, Kubernetes/Openshift, AWS, Terraform, Jenkins, Python, YAML.
How would you rate the training provided during your experience?
4/5
How would you rate your development of industry-specific skills during the experience?
5/5
How would you rate your development of personal / soft skills during the experience?
5/5
Please rate how these skills have helped you in your career development
5/5
Support and Guidance
How much support and guidance did you receive during your placement / internship?
Throughout the placement I had many mentors within the team, they would allow me to shadow their work as well as walk me through and teach me how to operate new technologies and services. I was also provided with access to online learning platforms and enabled to spend time studying these - this allowed me to gain the achievement Certified AWS Cloud Practitioner.
How would you rate the support and guidance from your line manager?
5/5
How would you rate the support and guidance from the wider team?
5/5
Company Culture
What was the company culture and general atmosphere like?
The company culture and general atmosphere was overall very positive, everyone I interacted with were friendly and always interested in my placement and how I was getting on. I also had the opportunity to visit the Bristol office during my placement and the same friendly and positive atmosphere was found there.
How would you rate the inclusiveness of the culture?
5/5
How would you rate the social opportunities?
4/5
How would you rate the diversity initiatives?
5/5
How would you rate the charity, sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives?
5/5
Overall Experience
To what extent did you enjoy your placement / internship?
I thoroughly enjoyed my placement, it was both challenging and rewarding as every day I learned something new and/or got to interact with a new technology. Being treated as an equal within the team made a huge difference to my experience as there were very few times where I felt like placement student which I believe contributed a lot to feeling comfortable and accepted in the team and company overall.
Please rate your level of enjoyment on your placement / internship
5/5
Please rate how your experience met your expectations
5/5
Future Career Prospects
Please rate the future employment prospects at Motability Operations
5/5
Recommendations & Advice
Would you recommend Motability Operations to a friend?
Yes
What advice would you give to others applying to Motability Operations
Understand the service the company provides to its customers and also the company values that MO holds it's employees to. It's very important to MO that it's employees are aligned with their values and also are passionate about the work they do, as this inevitably will carry over to the quality of work you do on a day-to-day basis.
