DevOps Engineer Intern Summer 2027

About Us:
Founded 20 years ago and headquartered in Chicago theDV Group of financial services firms has grown to more than 600 people operating throughout North America Europe and Asia. Since spinning out of a large brokerage firm in 2016 DV Trading has rapidly scaled as an independent proprietary trading firm utilizing its own capital trading strategies and risk management methodologies to provide liquidity to worldwide financial markets and hedging opportunities to commodity producers and users. Now DV group affiliates include two broker dealers a cryptocurrency market making firm and a bourgeoning investment adviser.

Overview:
As a DevOps Engineer Intern youll work directly within a small global DevOps team that owns firm-wide infrastructure and platform solutions. This is a high-impact high-visibility role where your work ships to production.

Responsibilities:

• Deploy and operate workloads on Kubernetes: containers Pods Deployments Services Ingress and basic storage (PV/PVC concepts).
• Work in a GitOps model using Argo CD (or equivalent): reconcile desired state from git troubleshoot sync and health propose safe changes via merge requests.
• Extend observability: OpenTelemetry concepts Prometheus targets and exporters Grafana dashboards and Alertmanager routingalways starting in lower environments.
• Triage alerts end-to-end: validate signal correlate with recent changes document findings and escalate with evidence.
• Build dashboards and panels from existing metrics; add recording rules or queries only with review when appropriate.
• Participate in platform upgrades (Kubernetes components agents or controllers) following runbooks and change windows.
• Support migration of services from bare metal to Kubernetes under mentorship (discovery manifests/Helm values networking cutover planning).
• Contribute to internal AI-assisted tooling: use AI thoughtfully (verify outputs protect secrets and customer data) and help improve safe tool-based agents that use internal APIs and observability data.

Requirements:

• Pursuing a BS or MS in Computer Science Computer Engineering Information Systems or a related field
• Expected to graduate by Summer 2028
• Hands-on Linux fundamentals (shell processes logs permissions basic troubleshooting).
• Networking basics: DNS TCP/HTTP/S ports load balancing vs Ingress at a conceptual level.
• Git workflow: branches merge requests meaningful commit messages.
• Python for automation and scripting; comfortable reading YAML for Kubernetes and CI configs.
• Interest in SRE/DevOps practices: reliability least privilege documenting what you run.
• Preferred: coursework or projects involving Kubernetes Prometheus/Grafana CI/CD Terraform/Ansible or cloud (AWS/GCP/Azure); contributions to homelab or open source.
• Preferred: thoughtful use of AI coding assistants and interest in agent patterns (tools guardrails human review)not required to ship ML models.

Compensation Range: $40.00-$50.00 per hour

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