Ignite
Graduate Development Initiative
Are you a recent college graduate majoring in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) who is looking to ignite your career in technology? Great news! Atos has the perfect opportunity for you.
Our IGNITE graduate development initiative will enable you to hit the ground running, accelerate your career and become a qualified cloud expert within 12 months. You will be using cutting edge technologies, adopting agile principles and pioneering the latest cloud technology at the strategic heart of Atos. We are proud to empower the most dynamic brands in the world with digital disruption of their industries and digital advancement of their companies.
During the initiative, you will be given the perfect balance of structured training, project assignments and client engagements to enable you to become a certified cloud professional. As a result, you will waste no time in reaching your potential.
Alongside a competitive salary, a comprehensive range of benefits, coaching and mentorship support, you will be able to unlock the potential for upward mobility and ignite your career!
IGNITE is part of the Atos OneCloud Initiative: find out more here.
Dynamic Learning
Each year we support graduates across the globe to start their digital journey, we’re with you all the way – nurturing your talent, developing your potential and helping you achieve your ambitions.
IGNITE focuses on both your professional and personal development. The program is designed in 3 main phases and is a mixture of formats. To name a few: sandboxes, hackathons, labs, cloud playgrounds, virtual training, project work and one to one coaching.
We are also inviting our strategic partners to come in and train you on their products, which we use on a daily basis in delivering the right solutions to our clients. Think the likes of AWS, Google and Microsoft.
First, we focus on cloud fundamentals and help you find your way in our organization. We will also invest in your personal development through business and soft skills training alongside one to one coaching to set you up to thrive both professionally and personally.
Moving into the next phase, you will start specializing on your technical training diving deeper into one of three different tracks. For business skills you will zoom in on teamwork and project management. You will start working deeper with our amazing clients, supporting them in developing and deploying cloud-based solutions to transform their businesses. Plus, we enable you to attain core certification.
In the third and last phase of IGNITE you will select one or more specializations, further differentiating your knowledge and directly contributing to the technical delivery of our solutions. After successfully finishing this last phase, you are ready for the next step and will move into the next customer centric opportunity within the organization.
Architecture Track
The Architecture Graduate Development Initiative is designed in phases and is a mixture of formats.
- First, we focus on cloud fundamentals and enable you to find your way in our organization.
- In the next phase you sink your teeth in Microservices, Data & API driven development, Design Thinking and start working with our amazing clients. Plus, we enable you to attain the core certification.
- In the third and last phase you will select 1 or more specializations, such as Private Cloud, Public Cloud and container platforms.
The architecture track includes following roles:
Lead Software Engineer
- Responsible for designing, building, testing and maintaining complex modern software applications.
- Fluency in multiple languages and augmented with a firm grasp of IaC and CICD pipelines.
Demonstrable hands-on experience with cloud native methodologies including micro services and twelve factors. - Architects competitive application solutions delivered on hybrid public cloud platforms taking into consideration customer business contexts and digital strategies.
- Provides subject matter expertise in the potential applications of cloud technologies to help customers accelerate their digital transformation.
- Leverages strong Atos internal networks to ensure a holistic solution delivery covering design, build and operate.
- Supports account managers and sales teams through all phases of customer engagement including the bid stage.
Business Analyst
An evolution of traditional consulting roles but grounded in data:
- Interacts with customer stakeholders to understand customer digital business challenges
- Analyzes business processes, visualize data, articulate business requirements and translate these into engineering requirements.
- Prioritizes and communicate user needs, making recommendations for business process or product feature changes.
- Enhances Atos operational workflows through process improvements and maximisation of automation opportunities.
Cloud Solution Architect
An evolution of existing role to bring it in line with market expectations:
- Multiple domains of technical expertise augmented with a firm grasp of IaC and CICD pipelines.
- Architects competitive infrastructure solution delivered on hybrid public cloud platforms taking into consideration customer business contexts and digital strategies.
- Provides subject matter expertise in the potential applications of cloud technologies to help customers accelerate their digital transformation.
- Leads the infrastructure solution implementation for large and complex deals.
- Leverages strong Atos internal networks to ensure a holistic solution delivery covering design, build and operate.
- Supports account managers and sales teams through all phases of customer engagement including the bid stage.
Don’t worry, we’ll stay in close contact and offer career coaching to make sure you are successful and enjoying what you do.
Your learning doesn’t stop here, you will have access to Atos University, which provides instant online access to a wide portfolio of learning solutions. Whether it’s project management, sales, technology or leadership training: there’s no limit to what you can learn.
Infra as Code (IaC) Track
The Infra as Code (IaC) Graduate Development Initiative is designed in phases and is a mixture of formats.
- First, we focus on cloud fundamentals and enable you to find your way in our organization.
- Bring on the next phase, where you sink your teeth in virtualization, automation tools, networking and start working with our amazing clients. Plus, we enable you to attain the core certification.
- In the third and last phase you will select 1 or more specializations, such as private cloud, public cloud, container platforms or security.
The IaC track includes following roles:
Cloud IaC Engineer
This role supersedes existing system and network engineer roles and is expected to automate the development and deployment of infrastructure and application fabrics in hybrid-cloud environments:
- Masters virtualization technologies, software defined networking and software defined storage technologies.
- Demonstrates expert level in declarative automation and configuration management tools.
- Possesses in depth knowledge of IaaS, PaaS public cloud offerings and building CICD pipelines.
Cyber Security Engineer
The role focuses on designing, deploying and automating holistic security solutions as an integral part of Atos product and services:
- In depth knowledge of public and private cloud security capabilities covering compute, storage, network, OS, endpoint protection, Privileged Access Management and Identity and access management.
- Demonstrates expert level in declarative automation, configuration management tools and building security centric CICD pipelines.
Don’t worry, we’ll stay in close contact and offer career coaching to make sure you are successful and enjoying what you do.
Your learning doesn’t stop here, you will have access to Atos University, which provides instant online access to a wide portfolio of learning solutions. Whether it’s project management, sales, technology or leadership training: there’s no limit to what you can learn.
Software Development Track
The Software Development Graduate Development Initiative is designed in phases and is a mixture of formats.
- First, we focus on cloud fundamentals and enable you to find your way in our organization.
- Bring on the next phase, where you sink your teeth in Microservices, Programming languages and DevOps and start working with our amazing clients. Plus, we enable you to attain the core certification.
- In the third and last phase you will select 1 or more specializations, such as AI, Machine Learning, Kubernetes or Mobile App Development
The Software Development track includes following role:
Application Developer
Brings customers new ideas to life creating impactful products, services, and experiences increasingly integrating state of the art technologies such as AR, VR and CV.
- Works closely with business analysts to translate business requirements into technical specifications.
- Demonstrates solid grasp of software development lifecycle including DevOps and Site reliability engineering.
- Demonstrates relevant experience with cloud native methodologies including micro services and twelve factors.
- Experience of implementing and integrating third-party applications within a complex enterprise application portfolio.
- Fluency in traditional application and mobile application development frameworks including exposure to UX/UI design.
Business Analyst
An evolution of traditional consulting roles but grounded in data:
- Interacts with customer stakeholders to understand customer digital business challenges
- Analyzes business processes, visualize data, articulate business requirements and translate these into engineering requirements.
- Prioritizes and communicate user needs, making recommendations for business process or product feature changes.
- Enhances Atos operational workflows through process improvements and maximisation of automation opportunities.
Data Scientist
In an increasingly data driven business, the role focuses on processing, analyzing and interpreting data sets to help customers improve their business and operational strategies.
- Expertise in designing and building statistical forecasting models and machine learning models.
- Natural ability and obsessive problem-framing and problem-solving skills.
- Engages broadly across different customer teams to articulate and structure complex business challenges.
- Selects the most suitable mathematical models and statistical techniques to address the posed business challenges.
- Demonstrates expert level knowledge of public cloud and open source big data and machine learning tools.
Don’t worry, we’ll stay in close contact and offer career coaching to make sure you are successful and enjoying what you do.
Your learning doesn’t stop here, you will have access to Atos University. Atos University provides instant online access to a wide portfolio of learning solutions. Whether it’s project management, sales, technology or leadership training: there’s no limit to what you can learn.