SRE & Network Intern - Build Reliability & Automation

IBM; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 61,000 - 139,000; Full time

Job summary

IBM is seeking a motivated IT Administrator intern with an interest in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and Networking Reliability Engineering (NRE) to join our team in Austin. You’ll gain hands-on experience in enterprise IT systems management, supporting infrastructure operations and automation initiatives.

This internship emphasizes reliability engineering practices, incident response, and collaboration with cross-functional teams.

Qualifications

• Pursuing degree in CS/IT or related field.
• Strong IP and network protocols knowledge.
• Analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Will research IT networking issues as required.
• Team-oriented with collaborative mindset.
• Experience with Python or Bash scripting is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Assist in maintaining servers, VMs, and cloud environments.
• Monitor performance and identify reliability issues.
• Support automation for routine admin tasks via scripting.
• Participate in incident response and post-incident analysis.
• Document system configurations and reliability metrics.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams on infra projects.

Skills

IP networking knowledge

SRE principles

Automation scripting

Analytical and problem solving

Python

Bash scripting

Team collaboration

Education

High School Diploma/GED

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

Wireshark

SolarWinds

Grafana

Prometheus

Git

CI/CD

Job description

IBM is seeking a motivated IT Administrator intern with an interest in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and Networking Reliability Engineering (NRE) to join our team in Austin. You’ll gain hands-on experience in enterprise IT systems management, supporting infrastructure operations and automation initiatives.

This internship emphasizes reliability engineering practices, incident response, and collaboration with cross-functional teams.