Cloud Infrastructure Intern

Neurocrine Biosciences

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About The Position

Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. (NASDAQ: NBIX) is offering the opportunity to gain hands-on experience in Cloud Infrastructure within the world of biotechnology. Our intern program offers exposure to cloud engineering, system operations and Infrastructure-as-code automations across multi-cloud hybrid environment. This position will work closely in IT with experienced engineers to support operational reliability, streamlining deployment workflows, and contribute to emerging ML/HPC initiatives. Intern will gain exposure to real-world engineering challenges such as scalability, cost optimization, environment consistency, and systems performance. This position offers a unique chance to apply computer science fundamentals to impactful biotechnology use cases while learning industry-ready IT infrastructure skills.

Requirements

• Pursuing or completed an undergraduate degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related technical field.
• Good verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to think creatively and be a team player
• Offer flexibility with a willingness to work on multiple projects simultaneously
• Interest in attending various program events, including social gatherings, career development workshops, and more
• Ability to commit to a 10-week, full-time summer program

Nice To Haves

• Prior experience in the pharmaceutical or biotechnology industry would be an asset but is not required
• Experience programming in any object-oriented language is a plus
• Experience and/or cloud practitioner cert with cloud provider like AWS, Azure is desirable
• Experience with Linux/UNIX platform is a plus

Responsibilities

• Support cloud configuration and security reviews, ensuring environments align with internal best practices for identity management, tagging, and resource governance
• Help refine Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) templates or configuration files to improve consistency across environments
• Identify opportunities to implement containerize and/or serverless workflow
• Create or enhance cloud health-check to identify performance improvement and cost usage dashboards to visualize consumption trends to identify optimization opportunities
• Assist in maintaining and troubleshooting CI/CD pipelines, including reviewing failed pipeline runs and proposing incremental improvements
• Assist in setting up or validating compute environments used for ML/HPC training
• Interacting with multiple areas within the company
• Collaborating with a mentor team of cross-functional team members as well as the other interns in the class
• Completing a special project and presenting the recommendations to senior management upon completion

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Intern
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees