Undergraduate Trainee DevOps Engineer - Cloud Engineering (R&D)

Company Description

IFS is a billion-dollar revenue company with 6000+ employees on all continents. Our leading AI technology is the backbone of our award-winning enterprise software solutions, enabling our customers to be their best when it really matters–at the Moment of Service™. Our commitment to internal AI adoption has allowed us to stay at the forefront of technological advancements, ensuring our colleagues can unlock their creativity and productivity, and our solutions are always cutting-edge.

At IFS, we’re flexible, we’re innovative, and we’re focused not only on how we can engage with our customers but on how we can make a real change and have a worldwide impact. We help solve some of society’s greatest challenges, fostering a better future through our agility, collaboration, and trust.

We celebrate diversity and understand our responsibility to reflect the diverse world we work in. We are committed to promoting an inclusive workforce that fully represents the many different cultures, backgrounds, and viewpoints of our customers, our partners, and our communities. As a truly international company serving people from around the globe, we realize that our success is tantamount to the respect we have for those different points of view.

By joining our team, you will have the opportunity to be part of a global, diverse environment; you will be joining a winning team with a commitment to sustainability; and a company where we get things done so that you can make a positive impact on the world.

We’re looking for innovative and original thinkers to work in an environment where you can #MakeYourMoment so that we can help others make theirs. With the power of our AI-driven solutions, we empower our team to change the status quo and make a real difference.

If you want to change the status quo, we’ll help you make your moment. Join Team Purple. Join IFS.

Job Description

We are a team that is responsible for a range of cloud automation, each of which presents its challenges. As a team we operate a policy of ‘R&D productivity through quality’ and as such we protectively look at ways to improve the quality of the automation/IaC all the time.

We are looking for a DevOps engineer to work closely with the QA team to improve the testing of an infrastructure as code pipeline and other automated test pipelines. The initial aim here is not for the engineer to write the test but for them to integrate the testing frameworks and improve upon them.

Duties and Accountabilities

• Implementation of existing application test suites into infrastructure as code pipeline and liaising with product teams to identify opportunities for improvements in tests.
• Implementation of tests for IaC and other automation code.
• Improve intelligence of infrastructure as code pipeline to allow for different scenarios.
• Introduce and maintain automated test pipelines in areas such as:
  • Ansible
  • Terraform
  • GitLab CI/CD
• Work with a geographically dispersed team to ensure the continuation of quality improvement.

Qualifications

The undergraduate students in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent who are seeking internship opportunities. 

• Basic understanding of software development concepts
• Coding Experience (python, shell, etc..)
• Basic understanding of Agile working concepts
• Code Management experience (BitBucket, Git, etc..)
• Knowledge of DevOps and Infrastructure-as-code technologies and tooling
• Strong interest in learning and implementing new technologies
• Excellent communication and multi-tasking skills along with a service mindset
• Strong team player and ability to work with global teams
• Ability to work in a fast-paced and ever-changing work environment
• Willingness to learn about QA

Additional Information

We believe that coming together as a community, in person, is important for innovation, connection and fostering a sense of belonging. Our roles have the right balance of remote and in-office working to enable flexibility for managing your life along with ensuring a real connection with your colleagues and the broader IFS community.