DevOps Engineer Intern: CI/CD & Cloud Automation (Hybrid)

IBM; City of Poughkeepsie (NY); Hybrid; USD 61,000 - 112,000; Part time

Job summary

IBM is seeking a DevOps Engineer Intern in Poughkeepsie, NY for a hybrid role. You will help build, automate, deploy, and maintain scalable infrastructure and software delivery pipelines across enterprise-class applications and services.

The internship emphasizes automation, CI/CD, and infrastructure as code with cloud and on-prem environments. You will collaborate with development, QA, security, and operations teams to improve reliability and deployment efficiency.

Qualifications

• DevOps or Platform Engineering experience is required.
• Proficiency with Kubernetes/OpenShift and CI/CD tooling.
• Proficiency with Terraform, Ansible, Git, and Linux.

Responsibilities

• Automate CI/CD pipelines and tooling.
• Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines.
• Automate software build, testing, deployment, and release processes.
• Improve deployment reliability, speed, and consistency across environments.
• Identify opportunities to reduce manual effort through automation.
• Deploy and manage infrastructure in cloud and on-premises environments.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices using modern automation tools.
• Maintain development, testing, staging, and production environments.
• Ensure systems are scalable, reliable, and highly available.
• Implement monitoring, alerting, and observability solutions.
• Troubleshoot infrastructure, application, and deployment issues.
• Perform root cause analysis for production incidents and service disruptions.
• Participate in incident response and operational support activities.

Skills

DevOps/Platform Engineering experience

Kubernetes/OpenShift

CI/CD pipelines

Terraform/Ansible/Git/Linux

Python/Bash scripting

Cloud platforms (Azure/AWS/IBM Cloud)

Monitoring/observability (Prometheus/G

DevSecOps & security automation

Highly available systems

Backup & data protection

Education

High School Diploma/GED

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

Kubernetes/OpenShift

Terraform

Ansible

Git

Linux

Job description

IBM is seeking a DevOps Engineer Intern in Poughkeepsie, NY for a hybrid role. You will help build, automate, deploy, and maintain scalable infrastructure and software delivery pipelines across enterprise-class applications and services.

The internship emphasizes automation, CI/CD, and infrastructure as code with cloud and on-prem environments. You will collaborate with development, QA, security, and operations teams to improve reliability and deployment efficiency.