DevOps Intern

Company Overview

More than 35 years ago, SelectQuote was founded on one core promise: to help our customers protect the people they value most. We pioneered the way consumers shopped for term life insurance, and now, we also help people find home insurance, auto insurance, senior health insurance and more. Our quick and easy process saves consumers both time and money, and today, more than 2 million families trust us to help them with their insurance needs. But what truly sets us apart is our people, and the opportunities to grow your career with SelectQuote are unmatched.

About The Role

In the DevOps Intern role, interns are responsible for implementing automation solutions that help increase the speed of our ability to deliver features to production while working with other DevOps Engineers at SelectQuote. The DevOps Intern will focus on familiarization with DevOps Principles, automation, and site-reliability. As an incoming engineer, this role will require a basic knowledge of networking and server administration. This role will also need to understand the basic concepts of how applications work together or familiarity with software engineering or SDLC principles. We would like the individual in this role to practice Redundancy and Recovery methods; being able to assist in a triaging workflow as well as identifying repetitive tasks and solutions. This is a paid internship.

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

• Troubleshoot and solve technical problems in AWS
• Automate installation or updates for required hardware and software
• Document solutions to issues and communicate across teams
• Leverage relevant tools: Jira, Jenkins, BitBucket, Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation, and other tools
• Prevent repetitive tasks by triaging issues and working with senior team members to automate

Skills/Abilities

• An understanding of Javascript, Docker, Bitbucket, Python, Bash, GitHub, Jenkins, and Jira
• Familiarity with application error tracking software such as Sentry.io, Rollbar, or similar
• Familiarity with Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery/Deployment (CI/CD) processes and automation
• Understanding of Linux system internals and administration
• Experience with container technologies and orchestration layers (Docker, ECS, ECR, etc.)
• Basic understanding of data center architectures (servers, networking, storage, physical hardware, virtualization, etc.)
• Exposure to automated testing including: unit, function, load, and behavior

Education And Experience

• At least 1 year of Software engineering or systems administration work experience
• Prefer: Experience with application instrumentation and monitoring
• Prefer: Experience with container technologies and orchestration layers (Docker, ECS, ECR, etc.)
• Prefer: Some experience with AWS preferred, basic knowledge of ECS & EC2

Key skills/competency

• DevOps Principles
• Automation
• Site Reliability
• AWS
• Linux Administration
• Containerization (Docker)
• CI/CD
• Scripting (Python, Bash, Javascript)
• Troubleshooting
• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation)