DevOps Engineer; Skillbridge Intern

Enlighten, honored as a Top Workplace from USA Today, is a leader in big data solution development and deployment, with expertise in cloud-based services, software and systems engineering, cyber capabilities, and data science. Enlighten provides continued innovation and proactivity in meeting our customers’ greatest challenges.

We recognize that the most effective environment for your projects doesn’t always look the same. Our hybrid work approach ensures that you can make lasting relationships with your team and collaborate in-person to get the job done—while having the flexibility to work from home when needed to achieve focused results.

This is an UNPAID internship through the DoD Skill Bridge Program for transitioning active‑duty US military personnel. DoD Skill Bridge Internships are available to help transitioning active‑duty military personnel gain real-world experience in the workforce sometime during their final 180 days of active‑duty service. The intern will actively train on meaningful projects and work closely with a mentor and senior company leadership.

Enlighten internship programs are focused on placing transitioning military into internships that require KSAs, education and military training similar to their current or previous military jobs; positions that could easily transition over to a full‑time regular and permanent job with Enlighten.

The Skill Bridge intern will train as a Dev Ops Engineer with Enlighten, reporting to a designated Enlighten Supervisor, with the goal of learning Enlighten’s Enterprise approach to design, build, and optimize Joint Cyber Warfighter Architecture (JCWA) Common Runtime Stack for Data (JCRS‑D) systems for automated deployments, scalable infrastructure and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines. The intern will be assigned special projects as needed.

At the end of four months, the intern will understand basic Dev Ops engineer concepts. Dev Ops engineers, as part of enterprise teams, manage, optimise, oversee, and monitor infrastructure deployment, application integration, and operational automation throughout the JCRS‑D enclaves.

• Manage and configure Linux‑based systems using Bash.
• Develop automation scripts using Python to streamline operational tasks.
• Provision and manage cloud infrastructure using Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS).
• Orchestrate and deploy containerized applications using Kubernetes.
• Develop and manage CI/CD pipelines.
• Identify ways to improve system reliability, deployment efficiency, and code quality.
• Use data and operational metrics to discover tasks that can be automated.

• Enlighten will benefit from the military background of the Skill Bridge intern and considers the Skill Bridge internship an overall positive experience.

• If candidate is selected and approved, Skill Bridge Intern can travel in conjunction with this internship;
  Enlighten will fund all travel costs.
• Skill Bridge Intern will be available during core hours for critical meetings and training.

• Week 1:
  In‑processing, introductions, office familiarisation.
• Week 2:
  Intro to the Joint Cyber Warfighter Architecture (JCWA) Common Runtime Stack for Data (JCRS‑D) technologies and Enlighten’s architecture.
• Week 3:
  Linux fundamentals, system administration, and Bash scripting.
• Week 4:
  Intro to automation using Python and source control management (e.g., Git).
• Week 5:
  Introduction to AWS Cloud infrastructure (EC2, S3, IAM, VPCs).
• Week 6:
  Containerisation basics (Docker, Container Registries) and local development.
• Weeks 7‑8:
  Kubernetes and AWS EKS workflows; establish a development environment for deploying containerised applications into a cluster.

• Weeks 9‑11:
  Modify and build CI/CD pipelines; automate application deploy infrastructure using code.
• Weeks 12‑13:
  Understand how to access logs to identify environment errors; understand common deployment/pipeline errors; troubleshoot cluster and automation errors.

• Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles.

• Active‑Duty Military ONLY within final 180 days of active‑duty service.
• Minimum of 5 years relevant experience with a Bachelor's in a related field; 3 years relevant experience with a Master's in a related field; or a high‑school diploma or equivalent and 9 years relevant experience.
• Additional experience dependent on Program of Instruction.

Physical requirements will vary and are dependent on the Program of Instruction.