Platform Engineering Intern

Genuine Parts Company; Birmingham, Northern (AL, KY); Hybrid; USD 27,552,000 - 41,328,000; Full time

Job summary

Genuine Parts Company is offering an Site Reliability Engineer/Cloud Engineer Intern position based in Birmingham, AL. The role involves working with cross-functional teams to ensure high availability, performance, and automation of cloud systems, while gaining hands-on experience in cloud technologies and DevOps practices.

The internship focuses on contributing to cloud-based transformations and continuous improvement in a fast-paced environment, with onsite work at the Birmingham headquarters.

Qualifications

• Pursuing a BS degree in a computer-related field (CS, engineering).
• Familiarity with SRE concepts and cloud technologies.
• Exposure to DevOps practices and monitoring tools.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

SRE principles

Cloud platforms

DevOps monitoring

CI/CD pipelines

Containerization

Kubernetes

Self-motivated

Team collaboration

Education

BS degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Tools

Google Cloud

CI/CD tools

Docker

Kubernetes

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.