DevOps Engineer Intern (Summer 2027)

Sierra Nevada Corporation•Southern Pines, NC

About The Position

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 technical and professional skills through mentoring, cross-functional workshops, and direct involvement in company projects. The role is within the Mission Solutions and Technologies (MST) business area, which provides command-and-control, communications, integrated ISR, force protection, and security solutions worldwide. MST supports Department of Defense, Department of Homeland Security, commercial, and international customers, with experience in platform operations, engineering, and full lifecycle management across air, land, sea, space, and cyber domains. The DevOps Engineer Intern will support scalable CI/CD pipelines across cloud, on-premises, and hybrid environments; automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration management; standardize deployment workflows; improve system performance and reliability; and collaborate with development, QA, and product teams.

Requirements

Understanding and experience with release engineering and CI/CD pipelines.
Demonstrated experience with developer tools such as GitHub and on-premises Azure DevOps.
Implementation experience with microservices, containers, and cloud-native application development.
A proven track record of delivering high-quality, consistent systems and environments for development teams.
Ability to work in a highly collaborative, fast-paced environment.
Excellent organizational, communication, and interpersonal skills.
Must meet the stated U.S. citizenship, lawful permanent resident, protected individual, or export-authorization eligibility conditions.

Nice To Haves

Software development experience with at least one object-oriented language, such as 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, including Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS).
Experience implementing and enforcing configuration control of development environments.

Responsibilities

Design, implement, and maintain scalable CI/CD pipelines supporting 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 to enable repeatable releases that accommodate product and customer requirements.
Monitor, troubleshoot, and improve system performance and reliability 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.