Hybrid DevOps Engineer Intern (Co-Op)

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

Benefits offered by this job

8 paid holidays

Sick time benefits

Job summary

IBM in Poughkeepsie, NY seeks a DevOps Engineer Intern to help build and maintain scalable infrastructure and delivery pipelines. You will partner with Dev, QA, Security and Ops to improve software quality, deployment efficiency, reliability, and operational excellence.

The role emphasizes automation, CI/CD, and infrastructure as code across hybrid cloud and on‑prem environments. The internship offers exposure to enterprise-grade systems and cutting-edge tooling within IBM's infrastructure

Qualifications

• DevOps or Platform Engineering experience.
• Kubernetes/OpenShift administration skills.
• 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 (Prometheus, Grafana).
• Understanding of DevSecOps, security automation and compliance controls.
• Experience supporting highly available, scalable enterprise applications.
• Backup, recovery, data protection and cyber-resilience knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Automation & CI/CD: 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.
• Infrastructure Management: deploy and manage infrastructure in cloud and on‑prem environments.
• Implement 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.

Education

High School Diploma/GED

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

Kubernetes/OpenShift

Terraform

Ansible

Git

Linux

Python

Bash

Cloud Platforms

Job description

IBM in Poughkeepsie, NY seeks a DevOps Engineer Intern to help build and maintain scalable infrastructure and delivery pipelines. You will partner with Dev, QA, Security and Ops to improve software quality, deployment efficiency, reliability, and operational excellence.

The role emphasizes automation, CI/CD, and infrastructure as code across hybrid cloud and on‑prem environments. The internship offers exposure to enterprise-grade systems and cutting-edge tooling within IBM's infrastructure