DevOps Intern-Poughkeepsie, NY

IBM; City of Poughkeepsie (NY); On-site; USD 61,000 - 112,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid holidays

Stock purchase plan

Job summary

IBM is seeking a DevOps Intern to join our engineering team in New York. You will help build, automate, deploy, and maintain scalable infrastructure and delivery pipelines supporting enterprise applications.

You’ll work with Development, QA, Security, and Operations to improve software quality, deployment efficiency, and system reliability, emphasizing automation, cloud tech, and IaC across the SDLC.

Qualifications

• Strong DevOps or platform engineering background with automation focus.
• Experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
• Proficiency with Terraform, Ansible, Git and Linux environments.
• Scripting in Python and/or Bash.
• Exposure to cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, IBM Cloud) and monitoring tools.

Responsibilities

• Automate software build, testing, deployment, and release processes.
• Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines.
• Improve deployment reliability, speed, and consistency across environments.
• Deploy and manage infrastructure in cloud and on-premises environments.
• Implement infrastructure as code practices using modern automation tools.
• Maintain development, testing, staging, and production environments.
• Implement monitoring, alerting, and observability solutions.

Skills

DevOps experience

CI/CD pipelines

Terraform

Ansible

Git

Linux

Python

Bash

Cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, IBM Cloud

Prometheus

Grafana

Security automation

Education

High School Diploma/GED

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Git

Linux

Job description

We are seeking a talented and motivated DevOps Intern to join our engineering team. In this role, you will help build, automate, deploy, and maintain scalable infrastructure and software delivery pipelines that support enterprise-class applications and services. You will work closely with Development, Quality Assurance, Security, and Operations teams to improve software quality, deployment efficiency, system reliability, and operational excellence.

The ideal candidate is passionate about automation, cloud technologies, continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD), and infrastructure as code. This role requires strong problem-solving skills, a collaborative mindset, and the ability to drive improvements across the software development lifecycle.

Your role and responsibilities

• Automation & CI/CD
• Design, implement, and maintain Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (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.
• Infrastructure Management
• 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.
• Monitoring & Reliability
• 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.

Required education

High School Diploma/GED

Preferred education

Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

• DevOps or Platform Engineering experience
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
• Proficiency with Terraform, Ansible, Git, and Linux
• Scripting experience with Python and/or Bash
• Experience with cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, IBM Cloud)
• Knowledge of monitoring and observability tools such as Prometheus and Grafana
• Understanding of DevSecOps, security automation, and compliance controls
• Experience supporting highly available, scalable enterprise applications
• Familiarity with backup, recovery, data protection, and cyber-resilience solutions

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Systems helps IT leaders think differently about their infrastructure. IBM servers and storage are no longer inanimate - they can understand, reason, and learn so our clients can innovate while avoiding IT issues. Our systems power the world’s most important industries and our clients are the architects of the future.Join us to help build our leading-edge technology portfoliodesigned for cognitive business and optimized for cloud computing.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

Are you ready to be an IBMer?

ABOUT IBM

IBM’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 500 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

IBM is proud to be an equal‑opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

Supplemental 1 employees may be eligible for up to 8 paid holidays, minimum of 56 hours paid sick time and the IBM Employee Stock Purchase Plan. IBM offers paid family medical leave and disability benefits to eligible employees where required by applicable law.
This position was posted on the date cited in the key job details section and is anticipated to remain posted for 15 days from this date or less if not needed to fill the role.
We consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable law.

Projected Minimum Salary per year

61,200.00

Projected Maximum Salary per year

112,200.00

IBM will not be providing visa sponsorship for this position now or in the future. Therefore, in order to be considered for this position, you must have the ability to work without a need for current or future visa sponsorship.

The compensation range and benefits for this position are based on a full-time schedule for a full calendar year. The salary will vary depending on your job-related skills, experience and location. Pay increment and frequency of pay will be in accordance with employment classification and applicable laws. For part time roles, your compensation and benefits will be adjusted to reflect your hours. Benefits may be pro-rated for those who start working during the calendar year.