Site Reliability Engineer Intern

Summary

Join Actian's 2025 Summer Internship Program as a Site Reliability Engineer - Security Intern! This 12-week program, starting June 2nd, offers structured learning, a dedicated buddy, and a capstone project showcasing your skills. The internship focuses on strengthening the security of our observability and monitoring infrastructure within a Kubernetes environment. You'll collaborate with experienced engineers, enhancing security monitoring, incident response, and risk mitigation. The ideal candidate possesses a strong understanding of observability tooling, security monitoring solutions, Kubernetes, and cloud security best practices. The program includes social events, executive interactions, workshops, and a potential travel opportunity for in-person orientation.

Requirements

• Must be actively enrolled in a college degree program
• Must be legally authorized to work in the Country of Employment

Responsibilities

• Willingness to dig deep into code, networking, operating systems, and/or storage solutions to solve complex issues
• Develop automation and monitoring tools to ensure system reliability
• Participate in incident response and troubleshooting
• Identify and address performance bottlenecks
• Collaborate with development teams to ensure software design meets operational requirements
• Continuously improve processes and procedures to increase system reliability and efficiency
• Capstone Project: “Researching Open-Source Security Monitoring Solutions”

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Cloud Computing platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Experience in software development in one or more programming languages (e.g., Python, Bash)
• Strong communication and collaboration skills
• Experience with observability and logging technologies
• Experience with infrastructure as code, preferably Terraform
• Experience with Grafana and Grafana Loki
• Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker or Kubernetes

Benefits

• $20 - $30 an hour
• Social Events
• Time with Executives
• Workshops & Leader Connects
• Opportunity to travel