DevOps Engineer Intern (Summer 2027)

Come start your career with some of the brightest and most innovative minds in the country! As a Technical Intern, you will participate in a comprehensive summer internship program designed to provide hands-on experience in a dynamic aerospace and defense environment. You will work alongside industry experts, contribute to real-world projects, and develop valuable technical and professional skills. This internship offers a unique opportunity for growth through mentoring, cross-functional workshops, and direct involvement in company projects. The Mission Solutions and Technologies (MST) business area provides affordable, turn-key command/control, communications, integrated ISR, force protection and security solutions worldwide. The MST team has a long legacy of supporting the Department of Defense, Department of Homeland Security, commercial and international customers with years of experience in platform operations, engineering and full lifecycle management across domains – air, land, sea, space and cyber. ## Responsibilities - Design, implement, and maintain scalable CI/CD pipelines that support multiple deployment approaches across cloud, on-premises, and hybrid environments. - Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration management to ensure consistent, reliable environments throughout the delivery lifecycle. - Optimize and standardize deployment workflows, enabling repeatable release processes that accommodate variations in product and customer requirements. - Monitor, troubleshoot, and improve system performance and reliability, applying advanced diagnostic skills across distributed systems and complex integrations. - Collaborate with development, QA, and product teams to align deployment strategies with architectural goals, security requirements, and operational best practices. ## Qualifications You Must Have - Understanding and experience of release engineering, CI and CD pipelines - Demonstrated experience with developer tools such as GitHub and on-prem Azure DevOps - Implementation experience with microservices, containers, and cloud-native application development - Proven track record of delivering high quality and consistent systems and environments for development teams - Ability to work in a highly collaborative, fast-paced environment - Excellent organizational, communication and interpersonal skills ## Qualifications We Prefer - Software development experience, with at least one object oriented language such as but not limited to Java, Python, C#, C++ or Go - Experience working with multiple cloud vendors - Experience with Docker, Kubernetes and/or Openshift and related container platform ecosystems - Experience with managed Kubernetes services, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) - Experience implementing and enforcing configuration control of development environments ## Essential Functions - Ability to sit at a computer for extended periods. - Proficiency with computers and office equipment. - Manual dexterity for handling tools and technical equipment. - Ability to lift up to 25 lbs occasionally. - Ability to work in a laboratory or workshop environment, which may involve exposure to loud noise levels or hazardous conditions. - Ability to travel may be required. - Ability to work in an office or hybrid environment.This posting will be open for application for a minimum of 5 days and may be extended based on business needs.