Platform Engineering Intern

Genuine Parts Company; Birmingham (AL); On-site; USD 18,000 - 24,000; Full time

Job summary

Genuine Parts Company is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer/Cloud Engineer Intern to join the Birmingham, AL team onsite. The internship focuses on cloud technologies, DevOps practices, and SRE principles, with hands-on experience and collaboration across the organization.

The role emphasizes learning, independence, and team contribution in a fast-paced environment. Ideal candidates are pursuing a BS in CS/Engineering, familiar with cloud platforms (Google Cloud preferred) and monitoring tools.

Qualifications

• Pursuing BS in Computer Science or Engineering.
• Familiar with SRE principles and DevOps practices.
• Familiar with cloud platforms (Google Cloud preferred).
• Familiar with web technologies and monitoring tools.
• Able to work independently and in a team, with a willingness to learn.

Responsibilities

• Support reliability, scalability, and uptime of systems.
• Assist incident response and root cause analysis to improve resilience.
• Monitor and optimize cloud resources for performance and cost.
• Engage in automation and continuous process improvements.
• Collaborate with senior engineers on assignments.

Skills

SRE principles

DevOps practices

Self-motivated

Team player

Critical thinking

Education

Pursuing BS in Computer Science or Engineering

Tools

Google Cloud

Web technologies

DevOps monitoring tools

Job description

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.

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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.