DevOps Engineer Intern

Job Description:

The Opportunity

As a DevOps Intern at Pluralsight, you will partner with the DevOps Manager to curate Developer self-service tools and systems to empower our continuous deployment environment. You will keep Pluralsight’s finger on the pulse of the DevOps community by continually researching, testing, and developing solutions to better enable our Software Engineers through automation and self-service. As an embedded member of remote development teams, you will be the subject matter expert on how and when to utilize the tools built and deployed by DevOps, as well as an influential partner in delivering incredible end user experiences.Pluralsight is a leader in the tech education space, and as such, our engineers are a driving force in developing and promoting industry best practices while continually synthesizing new ideas. You will help set the bar for DevOps teams across the industry while building a product that creates the innovators of tomorrow through technical education.

Who you are:

Must be a current junior undergraduate student majoring in Information Systems, Computer Science, or a related degree

You are a developing DevOps professional that enjoys being in the middle of the development lifecycle

You love exploring new technologies and keeping your own technical skills sharp while exhibiting responsibility and caution

You have a passion for innovation, learning, and excellence

You elevate the technical abilities of those around you

You are an amazing communicator and effective influencer within the remote teams you are on

You have a track record of being analytical, methodical, and quality driven

What you’ll own:

As a DevOps Engineer with a knack for automation, troubleshooting, and problem-solving, you will be responsible for monitoring our environments, servers, and applications for health, performance and security. You will work with our talented team of Software Engineers to decide how to best create meaningful outcomes for our end users.

Infrastructure:

Develop a flexible infrastructure to promote Developer self-service, while promoting continuity across our overall environment.

Development of tools and systems to support Developer self service

Observability of application health, performance, and security

Maintaining a pulse on emerging technologies and discovering hidden opportunities in our environment

Use technical expertise and experience to evaluate industry technologies and assess practice relevance

Collaborate with Software Craftsmen to research and address technical needs, to roadmap and develop new solutions

Maintain and improve standards of Operational Excellence

Ensure redundancy and resilience of infrastructure and services

Reliability and Performance

Championing of continual improvement in the areas of reliability and performance

Help design and implement secure environments and servers

Forecast and assess reliability risks

Ensure all infrastructure is configuration managed

Development Support

Support DevOps Manager

Collaborate with the Ops and DevOps teams, as well as Security, IT, and Software Engineers

Experience you’ll focus on:

A successful candidate will gain experience in key areas such as AWS, Saltstack, and Terraform (or similar)

Experience with Kubernetes and containerization to be able to support existing teams

Ability to quickly analyze and comprehend new or unfamiliar technologies or ideas

Systems administration skills in both Windows and Linux

Experience in automation and the development of automation tools

Familiarity in continuous integration and deployment methodologies/pipelines

Knowledge of network security and performance

Powershell, Bash, and Python scripting

Strong understanding of DevOps practices and principles

Technologies and tools you’ll use and interact with here:

Windows – Server 2012 R2, 2016, Core

Linux – Ubuntu LTS, RHEL, CentOS 7, Fedora Core

Tools – Github, New Relic, TeamCity, Octopus Deploy, Gitlab, Saltstack, OpsGenie, ELK, Terraform

Services – Haproxy, Nginx, IIS, RabbitMQ, Kafka, Zookeeper

AWS – EC2, RDS, ECS, VPC, Route53, ELB, ALB, Lambda, Elasticache, Cloudfront, Cloudwatch, CloudFormation, IAM, Certificate Manager, WAF & Shield, SQS, SNS

Data Stores – Cassandra, Postgres, MSSQL, Redis, Elasticsearch

Other – Cloudflare

Languages in use here that you may help support: Python, Node.js, Scala, R, F#, C#