Site Reliability Engineer Spring Co-op 2027

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IBM develops AI-powered, cloud-native products and solutions that support digital transformation across industries. This Site Reliability Engineer Co-op will help build, deploy, configure, and maintain systems, monitor production services, troubleshoot issues, deploy updates, and support system maintenance in an agile environment.

Responsibilities

24x7 Observability: Be part of a worldwide team that monitors the health of production systems and services around the clock, ensuring continuous reliability and optimal customer experience

Cross-Functional Troubleshooting: Collaborate with engineering teams to provide initial assessments and possible workarounds for production issues. Troubleshoot and resolve production issues effectively

Deployment and Configuration: Leverage Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) tools to deploy services and configuration changes at enterprise scale

Maintenance and Support: Tasks related to applying security patches and upgrades, and collaborating with Product support for issue resolution

Qualifications:

This is a 16‑week Co‑Op position designed for actively enrolled undergraduate students who are interested in gaining hands‑on, practical experience in their field while contributing to real IBM projects

To be eligible, candidates must be currently enrolled at an accredited university and able to pause their coursework for the duration of the Co‑Op, as students may not be enrolled in classes while participating

This role requires full‑time availability (40 hours per week) during the Spring 2027 semester between Jan 19 - May 7

Eligible candidates should also be available to join IBM in a full‑time role between December 2027 and August 2028 upon successful completion of their degree

Location Flexibility: By applying to this requisition, you acknowledge and agree to be considered for any of the listed locations associated with this position and are willing to work at the location where you are ultimately assigned.

High School Diploma/GED

• Must be actively enrolled in a Bachelor's degree program at the time of application and returning to complete the degree after the co-op
• Available to start full-time between December 2027 and August 2028
• Available to work full-time (40 hours/week) at an IBM location for 16 weeks between Jan 19 - May 7
• Co-op requires a full-time commitment; students should not be enrolled in concurrent coursework during the co-op term
• System Monitoring and Troubleshooting: knowledge in monitoring/observability, issue response, and troubleshooting for optimal system performance
• Automation: knowledge in automation for production environment changes, streamlining processes for efficiency, and reducing toil
• Linux: Knowledge of Linux operating systems
• Operation and Support Experience: Understanding in handling day-to-day operations, alert management, incident support, migration tasks, and break-fix support
• Scripting: knowledge or experience of Python, go or bash
• Familiar with cloud providers like IBM Cloud, AWS, Azure or GCP

Some travel may be required based on business demand

Bachelor's Degree

• Kubernetes/OpenShift: knowledge or experience of Kubernetes/OpenShift environments
• Automation/Scripting: knowledge or experience of Ansible, Python, Terraform, and CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, IBM Continuous Delivery, ArgoCD
• Monitoring/Observability: knowledge or experience crafting alerts and dashboards using tools such as Instana, New Relic, Grafana/Prometheus
• DBA: Interest or experience configuring and maintaining SQL, NoSQL, and data streaming technologies (e.g. PostgreSQL, CouchDB, Redis, Kafka, Spark, etc.)

Benefits:

Hybrid work arrangement

Supplemental 1 employees may be eligible for up to 8 paid holidays

Supplemental 1 employees may be eligible for a minimum of 56 hours paid sick time

Supplemental 1 employees may be eligible for the IBM Employee Stock Purchase Plan

IBM offers paid family medical leave to eligible employees where required by applicable law

IBM offers disability benefits to eligible employees where required by applicable law