Platform Infrastructure - Intern

2025 iCapital U.S. Summer Internship

Department: Platform infrastructure

Location: New York, NY

iCapital is transforming investing in private equity, private credit, real estate, hedge funds, and structured investments by removing the roadblocks that have prevented greater participation in these private strategies. Join the Fintech company that is disrupting how individuals invest in private capital markets. iCapital services approximately $206 billion in global client assets invested in 1,679 funds, as of October 2024.

Join us this summer and make a meaningful impact while developing your professional skills in a dynamic team environment. Help shape the future of Fintech in the global Alternative Investment space.

Key features of our summer internship:

• Become a key member of the iCapital team, driving initiatives, contributing to projects, and potentially jumpstart your career with us after graduation.
• Immerse yourself in an inclusive company culture where we create a sense of belonging for everyone.
• Gain exclusive access to the AltsEdge Certificate Program, our award-winning alternative investments education curriculum for wealth managers.
• Attend recurring iLearn seminars and platform demos where you will learn the latest about our products.
• Participate in an intern team project, culminating in an end-of-summer presentation to a panel of senior executives.
• Join senior executive speaker seminars that provide career development, guidance, and access to the leaders at iCapital.

About the role:

iCapital’s Technology department includes multiple teams dedicated to creating an industry-leading platform that manages the full life cycle of alternative investments. The Platform Infrastructure team delivers and manages highly available, extremely automated deployment systems within a cloud architecture with an infrastructure-as-code philosophy.  The team consists of three subgroups, Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps Engineering and Cloud Architecture. These teams manage several Kubernetes Clusters and a host of interconnected services across several AWS regions.

• Work closely with Engineering to help design and onboard new services and craft their deployment strategy within GitLab as we deploy to EKS, Lambda and ECS.
• Assist with operational support of the cloud architectures, such as helping troubleshoot pipeline issues, examining a slow API response time using our existing tooling, or logging into a container within a pod to understand why the service hasn’t started.
• Write Terraform code to add or modify some critical infrastructure components, such as adding new services or modifying application permissions to access them.
• Work with data engineers to help modify or create a data pipeline as part of MLOps activities.
• Help with a proof of concept of a new DevOps or SRE tool to streamline or advance visibility into the environment.
• Help construct and improve an entire infrastructure in a new AWS region.

Valued qualities and key skills:

• Experience with one programming language, ideally Python, Ruby or Java
• Confident in a Linux-only environment
• Exposure to AWS ideally, or Azure or GCP
• An eager, analytical and thoughtful learner who enjoys understanding how systems work from a broad perspective
• Great communication skills: infrastructure groups take pride in teaching and learning from one another
• Able to thrive in a fast-paced environment
• Able to adapt to new responsibilities and manage competing priorities
• Technologically proficient in Microsoft Office (Excel, PowerPoint)
• Strong verbal and written communication skills

What we offer:

• Outings with iCapital team members and fellow interns to build connections and grow your network.
• Corporate culture and volunteer activities in support of the communities where we live and work.
• Rooftop Happy Hours showcasing our impressive views of NYC.

Eligibility:

• A rising junior or senior in a U.S. college/university bachelor’s degree program
• Committed to working five days a week in the New York City office for the entire duration of the internship
• Authorized to work in the United States*

*We are unable to offer any type of employment-based immigration sponsorship for this program

Pay Rate: $51.00/hour + relocation stipend and transportation stipend

iCapital in the Press:

We are at the cutting edge of using technology to democratize investing in alternatives, but don’t take our word for it. Here’s what others are saying about us:

• Seven consecutive years on the Forbes Fintech 50 list, which highlights the most innovative private companies in personal finance, investing payments and crypto assets
• Three-time selection to Forbes’ Best Startup Employers List
• Four-time winner of the Money Management Institute/Barron’s Solutions Provider of the Year

For additional information on iCapital, please visit https://www.icapitalnetwork.com/about-us  Twitter: @icapitalnetwork | LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/icapital-network-inc | Awards Disclaimer: https://www.icapitalnetwork.com/about-us/recognition/

iCapital is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.