Intern - Site Reliability Engineer

Job Description

Are you passionate about cutting edge technology?

Do solving some of the Internet's most difficult content delivery challenges interest you?

Join our highly skilled Site Reliability team!

Our team designs, develops, and manages applications and infrastructure that support Akamai's Compute products and services. We do this while maintaining Akamai's mission at the forefront of what we do. Make life better for billions of people, billions of times a day.

As a participant in our program, you will gain valuable experience and contribute through meaningful project work. You will have the opportunity to join us for training, networking events, and engagements with company leadership. Our internships are open to students and graduates.

Start: July 1st

Duration: 6 months

Salary: 45 PLN gross/h

Partner with the best

As a Site Reliability Engineer, you will specialize in creating solutions that help improve automation and efficiencies across all internal teams. You will be expected to drive automation, operational excellence, and support our customer facing applications and infrastructure. This will require creative thinking combined with deep domain expertise in the areas of. Linux systems administration, configuration management, performance tuning, etc.

As a Contingent Worker Intern, you will be responsible for:

• Expanding the functionality of internal automation tools written in Bash and Python,
• Handling system configuration automation using SaltStack,
• Handling CI/CD mechanisms
• Reacting to and investigating incidents and external support requests
• Creating and expanding Terraform projects
• Setting up monitoring and creating Grafana dashboards
  
  

Do What You Love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Be a current student in Computer Science or a related field
• Have expertise in Linux system internals
• Have good command of Bash and Python for automation, diagnostics and tool development
• Possess experience with SaltStack (or other configuration management tools like Ansible, Chef, Puppet, etc.)
• Demonstrate solid grasp of networking fundamentals
• Be familiar with observability/monitoring ecosystems such as Prometheus, Grafana, etc.
• Exhibit knowledge of Git and version control workflows
  
  

Work in a way that works for you

Our 6-month intern program starts in July. The program requires you to be available 40 hours per week during summer months (July-September). We offer the opportunity to work part-time during the academic year (October-December).

This is a flexible role and may be performed at your home and/or the local Akamai office (in the country advertised). We are happy to discuss working options in this role and encourage you to speak with your recruiter in more details when you apply.

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At Akamai, we're curious, innovative, collaborative and tenacious. We celebrate diversity of thought and we hold an unwavering belief that we can make a meaningful difference. Our teams use their global perspectives to put customers at the forefront of everything they do, so if you are people-centric, you'll thrive here.

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