DevOps Intern

2 months ago


Brookfield, United States Milliman Part time
What we do

Milliman IntelliScript is a group of a few hundred experts in fields ranging from actuarial science to information technology to clinical practice. Together, we develop and deploy category-defining, data-driven, software-as-a-service (SaaS) products for a broad spectrum of insurance clients. We're a business unit within Milliman, Inc., a respected consultancy with offices around the world.

Candidates who have their pick of jobs are drawn to IntelliScript's entrepreneurial and collaborative culture of innovation, excellence, exceptional customer service, balance, and transparency. Every single person has a voice in our company, and we challenge each other to push the outer limits of our full, diverse potential, and we've shown sustained growth that ensures you'll have room to grow your skillset, responsibilities, and career.

Our team is smart, down-to-earth, and ready to listen to your best ideas. We reward excellence and offer competitive compensation and benefits. Visit our LinkedIn page for a closer look at our company, and learn more about our cultural values here.

Milliman invests in skills training and career development and gives all employees access to a variety of learning and mentoring opportunities. Our growing number of Milliman Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) are employee-led communities that influence policy decisions, develop future leaders, and amplify the voices of their constituents. We encourage our employees to give back to their varied professions, including leadership in professional organizations. Please visit our website to learn more about Milliman's commitments to our people, diversity and inclusion, social impact, and sustainability.

What this position entails

IntelliScript's Information Technology has been a key part of our success and is critical to our future. In this position, you will have responsibility to support IntelliScript's DevOps strategy, assisting with automation and improving our developer experience. Leveraging your familiarity with DevOps processes, platforms and systems, you will help develop, enhance, and maintain IntelliScript's CI/CD pipelines. This position will emphasize incremental improvements to our DevOps strategy by understanding the needs of our stakeholders and working with the DevOps team to deliver new features and capabilities that empower our users to deliver code in a self-service, repeatable, automated, and secure manner.

What you'll be doing

The DevOps Intern will have plenty of opportunity observe as well as develop their own hands-on skills around tasks such as:

  • Building and releasing pipeline capabilities
  • Identifying and implementing release automation best practices
  • Understanding our current developer experience, and finding ways to improve it
  • Collaborating with development, system engineers, architecture, and database administrator teams
  • Analyzing CICD tooling, and recommending fit for purpose solutions
  • Empowering development teams by learning the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) and automating manual processes


What we need

  • Current or recent enrollment in a technical school or college for a degree in Information Technology
  • Ability to ramp up quickly on both new technologies and existing technologies
  • Ability to think both tactically & strategically
  • Excellent documentation skills
  • Excellent technical design, problem solving, and debugging skills
  • Excellent collaborative skills, with strong written and verbal communication
  • Self-motivated team player who can run with a project and is willing to pitch in as needed


Wish list

  • Experience with DevOps tooling & practices (CI-CD orchestration software, database automation, configuration-as-code, developing/improving the SDLC process)
  • Experience performing build and release configuration & management
  • Experience architecting, implementing, and supporting containers
  • Experience with application development or infrastructure operational support-related technical expertise (preferably in an Agile/Scrum environment)
  • Experience working with the following: PowerShell, C#, SQL, Javascript, .NET/.NET Core applications, APIs, NuGet and Microsoft Windows infrastructure
  • Experience with database change automation
  • Experience with Atlassian suite of products (Jira, Confluence), Azure DevOps Services, or GitHub
  • Experience with cloud services, primarily AWS


Compensation: The range is $18 - $34 per hour, depending on a combination of factors, including but not limited to education, relevant work experience, qualifications, skills, certifications, location, etc.

Location: This position will be based out of the Milliman office in Brookfield, WI; however, candidates hired into this role may work remotely anywhere in the U.S. The anticipated closure date for this role is September 30, 2024.

Benefits:

  • When an intern, temporary, or seasonal employee reaches 1,000 hours worked within 12 consecutive months, they become eligible for a 401(k) plan with matching program and profit-sharing contribution
  • Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
  • Paid Time Off (PTO) starts accruing on the first day of work and can be used for any reason. Interns, Temporary, and Seasonal Employees will earn PTO each pay period, with an accrual rate of 1 hour for every 30 hours worked.
  • Commuter Program, which allows you to use pre-tax dollars to pay for your parking or public transit expenses to get to and from work. You may utilize this benefit any time throughout the year and funds will be available the first of the month following your first contribution.


Equal Opportunity

will receive consideration for employment, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)