Site Reliability Engineer Intern
Listed on 2026-03-12
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IT/Tech
Cloud Computing, Systems Engineer, IT Support, Data Engineer
A career in IBM Software means you’ll be part of a team that transforms our customer’s challenges into solutions.
Seeking new possibilities and always staying curious, we are a team dedicated to creating the world’s leading AI-powered, cloud-native software solutions for our customers. Our renowned legacy creates endless global opportunities for our IBMers, so the door is always open for those who want to grow their career.
IBM’s product and technology landscape includes Research, Software, and Infrastructure. Entering this domain positions you at the heart of IBM, where growth and innovation thrive.
Your role and responsibilitiesAs a Site Reliability Engineer, you will work in an agile, collaborative environment to build, deploy, configure, and maintain systems for the IBM client business. In this role, you will lead the problem resolution process for our clients, from analysis and troubleshooting, to deploying the latest software updates & fixes.
Your primary responsibilities include:- 24x7 Observability:
Be part of a worldwide team that monitors the health of production systems and services around the clock, ensuring continuous reliability and optimal customer experience. - Cross-Functional Troubleshooting:
Collaborate with engineering teams to provide initial assessments and possible workarounds for production issues. Troubleshoot and resolve production issues effectively. - Deployment and Configuration:
Leverage Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) tools to deploy services and configuration changes at enterprise scale. - Maintenance and Support:
Tasks related to applying security patches and upgrades, and collaborating with Product support for issue resolution.
High School Diploma/GED
Preferred educationBachelor's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise- System Monitoring and Troubleshooting: knowledge in monitoring/observability, issue response, and troubleshooting for optimal system performance.
- Automation: knowledge in automation for production environment changes, streamlining processes for efficiency, and reducing toil.
- Linux:
Knowledge of Linux operating systems. - Operation and Support
Experience:
Understanding in handling day-to-day operations, alert management, incident support, migration tasks, and break-fix support. - Scripting: knowledge or experience of Python, go or bash.
- Familiar with cloud providers like IBM Cloud, AWS, Azure or GCP.
- Kubernetes/Open Shift: knowledge or experience of Kubernetes/Open Shift environments.
- Automation/Scripting: knowledge or experience of Ansible, Python, Terraform, and CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, IBM Continuous Delivery, ArgoCD.
- Monitoring/Observability: knowledge or experience crafting alerts and dashboards using tools such as Instana, New Relic, Grafana/Prometheus.
- DBA:
Interest or experience configuring and maintaining SQL, No
SQL, and data streaming technologies (e.g. Postgre
SQL, Couch
DB, Redis, Kafka, Spark, etc.).
IBM Software infuses core business operations with intelligence—from machine learning to generative AI—to help make organizations more responsive, productive, and resilient. IBM Software helps clients put AI into action now to create real value with trust, speed, and confidence across digital labor, IT automation, application modernization, security, and sustainability. Critical to this is the ability to make use of all data, because AI is only as good as the data that fuels it.
In most organizations data is spread across multiple clouds, on premises, in private datacenters, and at the edge. IBM’s AI and data platform scales and accelerates the impact of AI with trusted data, and provides leading capabilities to train, tune and deploy AI across business. IBM’s hybrid cloud platform is one of the most comprehensive and consistent approach to development, security, and operations across hybrid environments—a flexible foundation for leveraging data, wherever it resides, to extend AI deep into a business.
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