Texas Southern Site Reliability Engineer Summer 2025 Internship

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This posting is for Texas Southern University students. Candidates interested in opportunities who are not attending Texas Southern University should search and apply to other roles here: www.verizon.com/campus. 

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Global Technology Solutions (GTS) is Verizon’s technology organization with global responsibility for information technology, strategy, architecture, development and management of the information systems portfolio, continued evolution of digital platforms and operation of all supporting infrastructure. The SRE (Site Reliability engineering) team is responsible for high volume operations supporting all VCG (Verizon Consumer group) systems and applications, focusing on availability, process automation and security.

In this role, you’ll be:

• Working on Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Automation: Develop, deploy and test workflows for transport layer security (TLS) certificate renewals for middleware, DB and MQ server side certificates.

• Helping develop scripts to perform the middleware configuration audit.

• Utilizing SRE Observability: Develop, deploy and test workflows for self healing use cases.

• Automating the provisioning of infrastructure, enabling to develop, deploy, and scale applications. 

• Responsible for the creation of infra build automation framework for various products like MQ, App/Web Servers, In-memory caching, etc.

• Building the middleware configuration standards, developing packages, and creating the SSI configuration files.

• Helping the team in building the Application logging framework and automation of cluster provisioning. 

• Gaining the opportunity to learn the ELK stack and different components within it.

• Participating in networking activities with other interns, professionals and business leaders.

You must be currently enrolled in a degree program and be in good academic standing to be considered.

In this internship, you’ll likely work remote with in-person opportunities available. If you are located near a Verizon hub, you may work in a hybrid model and visit the office on a set cadence with your manager. 

If you are interested in other roles and locations in addition to this one, please submit your application to those postings as well in order to be considered.

You’re a motivated self-starter. Never satisfied with the status quo, you’re always trying to beat a personal best. You thrive in a fast-paced environment where new challenges come up every day. You are flexible, dependable and work well in varying environments. Learning quickly is personally rewarding and inspires you to take smart risks.

You’ll need to have:

• Attendance at Texas Southern University.

• Current enrollment in a Bachelor’s degree program in: Information Systems, Information Security, Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Network Engineering, Data Analytics, Business IT, or related majors with an expected completion date between December 2026 and June 2028.

• Authorization to work in the U.S. without restrictions or need for future sponsorship.

• Willingness to align to our Irving, TX location.

Even better if you have:

• Demonstrated ability to operate independently in a remote environment.

• Demonstrated strong analytical skills, communication, leadership and presentation skills.

• Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively in a fast-moving, team environment.

• Demonstrated knowledge of analysis, coding, testing, documenting processes, and applications from detailed requirements.

• Demonstrated knowledge of data structures and algorithms as well as operating system fundamentals and infrastructure components.

• Experience with artificial intelligence/machine learning.

• Experience with Docker, Ansible, Virtualization (VMWare, etc.)

• Experience with Python, Java/scripting and Linux.

If Verizon and this role sound like a fit for you, we encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet every “even better” qualification listed above.

Scheduled Weekly Hours

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