Quantum Infrastructure Intern - SRE

Introduction

As part of Quantum Operations, our mission is to build, maintain, and continuously elevate the foundational environment that enables the development and delivery of our Quantum solutions to customers. Our team brings together expertise across Security, Infrastructure, Reliability, Testing, and Performance to ensure our platform remains robust, scalable, and secure.

Your role and responsibilities

As a Site Reliability Engineer intern with IBM Quantum, you will help ensure the reliability, availability, and performance of software systems that support IBM Quantum systems, applications, and research platforms. In this role, you will work closely with security experts, infrastructure engineers, and operations teams to monitor system health, troubleshoot production issues, automate operational tasks, and maintain stable, scalable environments. You will gain hands-on experience with cloud technologies, automation, observability, and site reliability engineering practices while contributing to the advancement of quantum computing technologies.

Required education

High School Diploma/GED

Preferred education

Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

• Currently pursuing a degree in Network Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field
• Experince in programing Java
• Experince in programing Python, including pandas, Num Py
• Understanding of data structures in software applications
• Experience with software tools such as VS Code, Jupyter notebooks, Git
• Understanding of linear algebra, probability, statistics

Preferred technical and professional experience

• Strong problem-solving skills and eagerness to learn new technologies
• Good communication skills and ability to work collaboratively in a team
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform, Cloud Formation, or Pulumi
• Practical experience deploying and operating workloads on a major cloud provider (AWS, Azure, GCP, or IBM Cloud)
• Strong understanding of containerization and orchestration technologies (Docker, Kubernetes)

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Research is the organic growth engine of IBM and an innovation engine for our customers and partners. As part of this mission, IBM Research anticipates and examines 'What's Next in Computing' to ultimately create and integrate the technologies the world relies upon to solve big challenges and unlock new opportunities. We create and pioneer new markets for IBM, our partners and customers as exemplified in our ongoing quest to reach practical and large-scale quantum computing.

Across IBM Research, we realize the power and potential to accelerate discovery with our partners and clients by combining the power of high performance computing, AI, and Quantum, all integrated through the hybrid cloud.

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