More than 35 years ago, SelectQuote was founded on one core promise: to help our customers protect the people they value most. We pioneered the way consumers shopped for term life insurance, and now, we also help people find home insurance, auto insurance, senior health insurance and more. Our quick and easy process saves consumers both time and money, and today, more than 2 million families trust us to help them with their insurance needs.

But what truly sets us apart is our people, and the opportunities to grow your career with SelectQuote are unmatched.

In the DevOps Intern role, interns are responsible for implementing automation solutions that help increase the speed of our ability to deliver features to production while working with other DevOps Engineers at SelectQuote. The DevOps Intern I will focus on familiarization with DevOps Principles automation and site-reliability. As an incoming engineer this role will require a basic knowledge of networking and server administration. This role will also need to understand the basic concepts of how applications work together or familiarity with software engineering or SDLC principles. We would like the individual in this role to practice Redundancy and Recovery methods; being able to assist in a triaging workflow as well as identifying repetitive tasks and solutions.

This is a paid internship.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

• This position has no direct supervisory responsibilities.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Troubleshoot and solve technical problems in AWS
• Automate installation or updates for required hardware and software
• Document solutions to issues and communicate across teams
• Leverage relevant tools Jira Jenkins BitBucket Terraform Ansible CloudFormation and other tools
• Prevent repetitive tasks by triaging issues and working with senior team members to automate

Skills/Abilities:

• An understanding of Javascript Docker Bitbucket Python Bash GitHub Jenkins and JIRA
• Familiarity with application error tracking software such as Sentry.io Rollbar or similar.
• Familiarity with Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery/Deployment (CI/CD) processes and automation.
• Understanding of Linux system internals and administration.
• Experience with container technologies and orchestration layers (Docker ECS ECR etc).
• Basic understanding of data center architectures (servers networking storage physical hardware virtualization etc).
• Exposure to automated testing including: unit function load and behavior..

Education and Experience:

• At least 1 years of Software engineering or systems administration work experience
• Prefer: Experience with application instrumentation and monitoring
• Prefer: Experience with container technologies and orchestration layers (Docker ECS ECR etc)
• Prefer: Some experience with AWS preferred basic knowledge of ECS & EC2

Physical Requirements:

• Work is performed indoors with potential exposure to safety and health hazards related to office work. Could periodically travel to other office and operational sites.  The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
• Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer.

SelectQuote Core Values:

Service: We create positive customer experiences.

Entrepreneurship: We create innovate & take risks.

Leadership: We build & invest in high-performing teams.

Empowerment: We embrace a changing environment.

Courage: We challenge the status quo & drive continuous improvement.

Teamwork: We help support & celebrate each other.

Disclaimer: The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this job. They are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities duties and skills required.