Careers

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Our Core Values

Core Value 1

Opportunity for all

FIT believes in providing opportunity for everyone, and that all people should have a chance to be a part of Ireland's evolving digital economy.

Core Value 3

Strength is in Unity

The scale of the skills shortage and the opportunities arriving from Ireland are vast. It is only by coming together with our stakeholders that we can tackle it head on and make meaningful change.

Core Value 2

No Limits

Every journey must have a first step. FIT believes that there should be no limits on a person's progression through education and that if a person wants to continue their learning journey, that should be facilitated.

Core Value 4

Continuous Innovation

FIT believes in continuous assessment of its offerings to ensure it remains relevant in an ever changing environment e.g. New Apprenticeship offerings.

The benefits of working at FIT

As well as offering fulfilling and challenging work, FIT offers all employees paid holidays, travel pass and bike to work schemes, along with access to Employee Assistance Programmes. In addition, upon completion of a wait period, FIT Staff can avail of a company Occupational Pension Scheme, paid Health Insurance and Death in Service insurance cover.

Current Career Opportunities

Digital Learning Resources Coordinator (Instructional Designer)

About FIT

FIT is the national Coordinator for three innovative technical apprenticeship programme at NFQ Level that include the Software Development Associate, Computer Networking Associate and Cybersecurity Apprenticeship programmes, with plans to enhance the provision and scale of the tech apprentice intake in response to Industry demands. In addition, FIT is actively providing wrap-around supports to 3500 students via its training & employment teams, with an additional 7000 students engaging with FIT via its schools, digital pathways programmes, and other online platforms

To achieve scaling targets in the tech apprenticeship programme and to maintain a competitive edge in all other parts of the FIT organisation, including its schools’ programmes, FIT Training and Employment teams, FIT is implementing a customised FIT learning management system for use by all students, apprentices, tutors, and FIT staff. This customised solution will ensure excellence in providing digital education offerings, leading to improved user functionality and efficiencies of scale.  The learning management system will consolidate FIT’s vision for a greater collaborative & blended learning environment to all new & existing FIT learners. By taking this step FIT will enable its learners to experience the best possible learning environment, thereby empowering them to achieve their own career goals. As part of this activity and a wider strategic goal, FIT is looking to add a ‘Digital Learning Resources Coordinator (Instructional Designer) to its academic and programme development team.

Working under the FIT Senior Learning Technologist the role will involve:

• Developing meaningful interactive activities and aligned educational resources.

• Creating immersive educational experiences for the audience.

• Understanding student progress and align the content with their needs.

• Using core instructional design principles and theories to maximize learning.

• Maintaining projects and organize course documents.

• Collaborating with subject matter experts for lesson planning.

• Revisiting and assess learning objectives.

• Researching and implement new technologies into instruction.

• Distributing key learning materials to the audience

• Evaluation and maintenance of existing instructional content

What are FIT looking for? Below are some of the skills & Qualifications FIT are looking for this role:

Skills:

· Broad understanding of the contemporary computing environment and associated technologies.

· Proven capacity to generate varied training materials across several ICT discipline areas.

· In-depth understanding of teaching models and learning theories.

· Ability to navigate learning management systems.

· Basic understanding of HTML.

· Strong project management skills.

· Proficient in computer networking and infrastructure would be advantageous

Customer Centric Engineering Apprentice - Salesforce

About Salesforce

We’re Salesforce, the Customer Company, inspiring the future of business with AI+ Data +CRM. Leading with our core values, we help companies across every industry blaze new trails and connect with customers in a whole new way. And, we empower you to be a Trailblazer, too — driving your performance and career growth, charting new paths, and improving the state of the world. If you believe in business as the greatest platform for change and in companies doing well and doing good – you’ve come to the right place.

Customer Center Engineering Apprenticeship

Salesforce’s Customer Centric Engineering (CCE) team delivers Customer Love by solving the toughest technical customer escalations fast and champions trust throughout Salesforce. CCE’s have developer-level technical chops along with unparalleled troubleshooting and problem-solving skills. CCE’s also have a strong desire to interact with customers, support engineers and management on high-profile issues critical to the long-term success of the company.

As an apprentice, you will have the opportunity to learn on the job with world class CCE’s and actively contribute to our exciting mission to deliver ever more reliable and resilient solutions for our Customers. CCE’s leverage cutting edge technologies to debug complex customer issues and automate operational tasks. You will have the opportunity to operate as a fully functioning member of the team and gain valuable real world experience, with the potential to secure a full time position following completion of your studies.

During this experience, you’ll be part of a wide apprentice community; spanning across Dublin and London, and across a variety of business units and roles. You’ll also have access to a broader group of people that will support you throughout to develop both personally & professionally. The program will run in collaboration with Fast Track into Information Technology for two years and will provide you with the experience and knowledge to become a proficient software developer.

What are we looking for?

Below are some of the skills we expect Customer Centric Engineering Apprentices to demonstrate:

  • A keen interest in the world of software development
  • Excellent analytical, conceptual and problem-solving skills
  • Self-starting, proactive and organised, as well as being capable of long-term thinking
  • Desire to learn and grow
    Excellent
  • English communication skills – written and oral
  • Strong interpersonal skills, a positive attitude and a customer service mindset – energetic, friendly, and patient

Infrastructure Engineering Apprenticeship - Salesforce

About Salesforce

We’re Salesforce, the Customer Company, inspiring the future of business with AI+ Data +CRM. Leading with our core values, we help companies across every industry blaze new trails and connect with customers in a whole new way. And, we empower you to be a Trailblazer, too — driving your performance and career growth, charting new paths, and improving the state of the world. If you believe in business as the greatest platform for change and in companies doing well and doing good – you’ve come to the right place.

Infrastructure Engineering Apprenticeship

Salesforce’s Infrastructure Engineering team delivers cutting edge software services that delight our customers and support our key goals around customer Trust. You will actively contribute to mission critical services and solutions as part of that team.

As an apprentice, you will have the opportunity to learn on the job with world class software developers and actively contribute to our exciting mission to deliver ever more reliable and resilient software solutions supporting our infrastructure. The Infrastructure Software Teams leverage cutting edge technologies to code, design and debug complex solutions to automate operational tasks. You will have the opportunity to operate as a fully functioning member of the team and gain valuable real world experience

During this experience, you’ll be part of a wide apprentice community; spanning across Dublin and London, and across a variety of business units and roles. You’ll also have access to a broader group of people that will support you throughout to develop both personally & professionally. The program will run in collaboration with Fast Track into Information Technology for two years and will provide you with the experience and knowledge to become a proficient software developer.

What are we looking for?

Below are some of the skills we expect Infrastructure Engineering Apprentices to demonstrate:

  • Exposure to AWS, GCP or AZURE
  • Excellent analytical, conceptual and problem-solving skills
  • Self-starting, proactive and organised, as well as being capable of long-term thinking
  • Passion for scaling systems and software
  • Excellent English communication skills – written and oral
  • A keen interest in the world of software development

Systems Security Engineering Apprentice - Salesforce

About Salesforce

We’re Salesforce, the Customer Company, inspiring the future of business with AI+ Data +CRM. Leading with our core values, we help companies across every industry blaze new trails and connect with customers in a whole new way. And, we empower you to be a Trailblazer, too — driving your performance and career growth, charting new paths, and improving the state of the world. If you believe in business as the greatest platform for change and in companies doing well and doing good – you’ve come to the right place.

Systems Security Team at Salesforce

Our Systems Security team is responsible for handling all Security Systems Infrastructure primarily in our on-premise Data Centers and protecting our company’s host infrastructure from internal/external threats through vulnerability remediation. This includes functions such as host provisioning, maintenance, Host Integrity/Uplift rollout (UEFI/Secure Boot, TPM), patching and de-provisioning. The team owns critical Host Access Management services that protect privileged access to Systems.

During this experience, you’ll be part of a wide apprentice community spanning across Dublin and London, and across a variety of business units and roles. You’ll also have access to a broader group of people that will support you throughout to develop both personally & professionally.

As an apprentice, year one will be primarily focused on understanding Salesforce and gaining the skills needed to do the job. Then you’ll progressively transition into the Systems Security team while continuing to attend college.

Below is a list of the first-year activities you’ll be part of:

  • Implement and support CI/CD toolchains to support systems security programs.
  • Implement monitoring, policies, procedures, and standards relating to systems security.
  • Fully embed in fast paced software agile DevOps teams.
  • Participate in sprint planning, demos and daily scrum activities.
  • Work with the engineering team to meet results.

What are we looking for?

We are looking to hire individuals that have a desire for continuous learning, resilience to overcome an obstacle with a positive attitude and a passion for understanding technology and sales.

Below are some requirements and skills we expect apprentices to demonstrate:

  • A keen interest in the world of cyber security.
  • Passion and willingness to learn lots of new skills and new technologies.

Apprentice Field Engineer - BT

Why BT?
BT is one of the world’s leading providers of communications services and solutions. We’re more than just a broadband
company. Millions of people rely on our services every day without realising – emergency services, contactless payments in
shops and banks – they’d all grind to a halt without our services, technology and innovations. Oh, and we don’t just do this in
Ireland and the UK; we do it in 180 countries around the world. We’re not an ordinary business, and we don’t do ordinary
Apprenticeships. We’re here to create the next big thing in technology and we want to take you on our journey with us.
There are no limits to what people can do. If only we connect. And as technology changes our world, the connections people
make can be simple or complex, helpful or harmful; connections for good or for bad. That’s why we’re here – we connect for
good. We champion these connections and harness the power of technology to help solve some of the world’s biggest
challenges, from climate change to cyber security. We empower people and organisations to get more out of this emerging
world; removing limits and unlocking their potential.

Apprenticeship Programme
During this two year Apprecticeship Programme, the candidate will study towards a Nationally Accredited Level 6 ICT
Associate Apprentice – Network Engineer with FIT. This structured programme combines on the job learning and formal
classroom training. 

Why this job matters
In conjunction with your formal classroom training this role will perform reactive and preventative node maintenance as per
vendor documentation to pre-defined SLA’s in accordance with service requests to sustain and improve the quality of service
on the IP, Data, Mobile telephony, Voice and Transmission elements that constitute Company/3rd party networks. Skills will
be developed in all the requisite competencies and technologies, including SafePass, First Aid, Climbing, Incident
management, IP and Optical Networking.

What I’ll be doing – your accountabilities 
• Successful completion of a 2 year QQI level 6 Apprenticeship course.
Attendance of all required modules, demonstration of continuous learning
throughout the course and successful exam outcomes.
• Undertake a programme of continuous development and training to
enable the candidate to undertake all the tasks necessary on BT/3rd party
sites and infrastructure. This will include attaining all requisite
accreditations (Safepass, First Aid, etc).
• Assisting in the management of Major Incidents and the generation of
reports following established procedures.
• Liaising with other field engineers/technicians and interfacing with
customers, driving system optimisation and continuous improvement
projects to ensure maximum customer satisfaction

Get in touch

If you have any questions or just want more information send us a message. We’d love to hear from you.

Simply fill out the form or call us at:
+353 1 882 5570 (Dublin)
or +353 21 242 8755 (Cork).