Summer 2020 Intern Software Engineer - Irvine CA
Cox Automotive offers internships across 10+ locations within the U.S. for current college students. Throughout the summer, students will have the opportunity to complete challenging business-critical projects alongside some of the most talented individuals in the automotive technology industry. The program will allow students to enhance their leadership skills through the delivery of professional development educational components as well as exposure to existing Cox leaders. Duration: 10 – 12 weeks, full time, paid internship.
The Software Engineer Intern is responsible for the development and management of enterprise platforms, deployment pipelines, security and quality monitoring to increase the pace of change, while protecting service and increasing business value. The selected candidate’s focus areas will include developing scripts and tools to automate tasks, provision and maintain new and existing infrastructure platforms on public and private clouds.
Selected Responsibilities:
- Develop automation for infrastructure provisioning and procedures, configuration management and ongoing support processes to be used across all environments.
- Document new development, procedures or test plans as needed.
- Help develop and follow best practices, security and engineering standards.
- Builds tools and pipelines needed to facilitate continuous integration and delivery of software to all environments.
- Automates code packaging, code deployment, and configuration management processes to be used across all environments.
- Solicits feedback from delivery and operations teams about continuous integration and delivery challenges and works with them to identify opportunities to optimize software engineering throughput and quality.
- Tracks system and service performance continuously in all environments and escalates to the appropriate team.
Qualifications:
- Education in Computer Science or related field – including classes related to software development, systems, networking and security
- A passion for technology, reverse engineering and writing code to create solutions and fix problems
- Excitement for collaboration and ability to clearly articulate thoughts and processes with both verbal and written communication in one-on-one and group settings
- Experience with Windows and Linux systems, containers and databases
- Experience with source code, build, deploy, orchestration and configuration management tools
- Experience in writing code and scripts in at least one high-level programming language
- An eye to identify and a desire to resolve inefficiencies and manual activities via automation
- Familiarity with public cloud architecture and technologies, preferably AWS
- Familiarity with Agile concepts and processes, Scrum and Kanban
- An interest in building and continuously improving secure and resilient applications at scale
- An interest in gathering data and measuring the progress on what makes applications tick, stay up and be performant