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Your Role And Responsibilities
As a Site Reliability Engineer Intern, you will work in an agile, collaborative environment to build, deploy, configure, and maintain systems for the IBM client business. In this role, you will lead the problem resolution process for our clients, from analysis and troubleshooting, to deploying the latest software updates & fixes.
Your Primary Responsibilities Include
- 24x7 Observability: Be part of a worldwide team that monitors the health of production systems and services around the clock, ensuring continuous reliability and optimal customer experience.
- Cross-Functional Troubleshooting: Collaborate with engineering teams to provide initial assessments and possible workarounds for production issues.
- Troubleshoot and resolve production issues effectively.
- Deployment and Configuration: Leverage Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) tools to deploy services and configuration changes at enterprise scale.
- Maintenance and Support: Tasks related to applying security patches and upgrades and collaborating with Product support for issue resolution.
Bachelor's Degree
Required Technical And Professional Expertise
- System Monitoring and Troubleshooting: knowledge in monitoring/observability, issue response, and troubleshooting for optimal system performance.
- Automation: knowledge in automation for production environment changes, streamlining processes for etticiency, and reducing toil.
- Linux: Knowledge of Linux operating systems.
- Operation and Support Experience: Understanding in handling day-to-day operations, alert management, incident support, migration tasks, and break-fix support.
- Scripting: knowledge or experience of Python, go or bash.
- Familiar with cloud providers like IBM Cloud, AWS, Azure or GCP.
Program Duration: 12-16 Months
Candidates must be available to participate for the full duration of the internship.
Preferred Technical And Professional Experience
- Kubernetes/OpenShift: knowledge or experience of Kubernetes/OpenShift environments.
- Automation/Scripting: knowledge or experience of Ansible, Python, Terraform, and CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, IBM Continuous Delivery, ArgoCD.
- Monitoring/Observability: knowledge or experience creating alerts and dashboards using tools such as Instana, New Relic, Grafana/Prometheus.
- DBA: Interest or experience configuring and maintaining SQL, NoSQL, and data streaming technologies (e.g. PostgreSQL, CouchDB, Redis, Kafka, Spark, etc.).
