Platform Engineering Intern

Motion Industries; Birmingham (AL); On-site; USD 15,000 - 25,000; Part time

Job summary

Motion Industries in Birmingham, AL, is offering a site reliability engineer/cloud engineer intern role. You will work with cross-functional teams to ensure reliability, performance, and automation of systems while gaining hands-on cloud experience.

You should be pursuing a BS degree in a computer-related field and be eager to learn DevOps practices, cloud tools (Google Cloud preferred), and containerization. Onsite at HQ with mentorship from senior engineers.

Qualifications

• Working on a BS degree in a computer-related field.
• Familiarity with SRE principles and cloud platforms.
• Willingness to learn cloud tech and DevOps practices.

Responsibilities

• Support reliability, scalability, and uptime.
• Assist incident response and root cause analysis.
• Monitor cloud resources for performance and cost.
• Participate in automation and process improvement.
• Collaborate with senior team members on tasks.
• Engage in brainstorming sessions and technical discussions.

Skills

SRE principles

Cloud platforms

DevOps practices

CI/CD pipelines

Containerization

Team player

Education

BS in computer science

Tools

Google Cloud

Monitoring tools

Job description

Birmingham, AL, USA
Full time
R26_0000029141

Site Reliability Engineer/Cloud Engineer Intern Job Description

Ready for a challenging and rewarding internship? The role will work closely with cross-functional team in a collaborative environment to ensure high availability, performance, and automation of systems while gaining hands-on experience in cloud technologies, DevOps practices, and site reliability engineering principles. Our goal is to enhance and support cloud-based transformations, and to focused on pushing capabilities forward, staying ahead of customer needs and innovating for continuous improvement.

If you're ready to unleash your knowledge, tame technology, and bust out of the ordinary, find out what's next at Motion.

This position will be based in Birmingham, AL. Interns will be onsite at the Birmingham headquarters.

Responsibilities

• Support the team to ensure system reliability, scalability, and uptime.
• Assist to incident response and root cause analysis to improve system resilience.
• Help monitor and maintain cloud resources to ensure optimal performance and cost efficiency.
• Actively participate brainstorming sessions, and technical discussions and provide suggestions.
• Participate in automation and continuous process improvement cycles.
• Work alongside senior team members on assigned task.

Qualifications:

• Working on a BS degree in a computer related field (e.g. Computer Science, Engineering)
• Familiarly with SRE principles
• Familiarity with cloud platforms and technologies (Google Cloud preferred)
• Familiarity with web technology, DevOps monitoring tools
• Familiarity of DevOps practices (e.g. CI/CD pipelines, containerization, and orchestration)
• Must be self-motivated and know when to seek guidance.
• Individual must be a self-starter and capable of working independently as well as part of a team.
• Eagerness to learn new technologies and adapt to a fast-paced environment.
• Strong critical thinking, problem-solving and operation support skills.

GPC conducts its business without regard to sex, race, creed, color, religion, marital status, national origin, citizenship status, age, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, disability, military status, status as a veteran, or any other protected characteristic. GPC's policy is to recruit, hire, train, promote, assign, transfer and terminate employees based on their own ability, achievement, experience and conduct and other legitimate business reasons.

Where permitted by applicable law, successful applicants must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 prior to start date. COVID-19 vaccination is a condition of employment, subject to an approved accommodation, and proof of vaccination will be required on or prior to start date.

GPC conducts its business without regard to sex, race, creed, color, religion, marital status, national origin, citizenship status, age, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, disability, military status, status as a veteran, or any other protected characteristic. GPC's policy is to recruit, hire, train, promote, assign, transfer and terminate employees based on their own ability, achievement, experience and conduct and other legitimate business reasons.

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