Acadia Insurance (a Berkley Company)→
Intern
InternshipOn-site
Location
IA, Urbandale - 11201 Douglas Avenue
Salary
$56k–$56k/yr
Experience
Not specified
Posted
Today
Skills
scripting languages - powershellscripting languages - javascriptscripting languages - typescriptsqlgitgithubgit bashansibleterraformci/cd pipelinesmonitoring and alertingincident responseperformance analysisreliability engineeringinfrastructure as code
Job Description
Summary: Berkley Technology Services (BTS) is a dynamic technology solution for W. R. Berkley Corporation, a Fortune 500 Commercial Lines Insurance Company. The Intern role in the DevOps/Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Team offers students hands-on experience in modern software delivery and operational excellence, collaborating with various teams to learn and apply best practices in CI/CD automation and reliability engineering.
Responsibilities:
- Support DevOps and SRE monitoring, observability, and automation through scripting, SQL, and tooling
- Assist in defining and tracking reliability metrics, including SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets
- Help implement and maintain monitoring and alerting to proactively identify performance and reliability issues
- Contribute to CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, and operational tooling that support reliable software delivery
- Assist with incident response, troubleshooting, and performance analysis to minimize downtime and user impact
- Collaborate with development and operations teams to embed reliability, resiliency, and observability into systems
- Research emerging DevOps and SRE tools and practices and share findings with the team
- Document standards, configurations, issues, and resolutions to support operational consistency
- Demonstrate strong communication, prioritization, and multitasking skills in a fast-paced environment
Required Qualifications:
- Pursuing a degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Management Information Systems or a similar field
- Interest in learning scripting languages like PowerShell, JavaScript, Typescript
- Basic knowledge of or experience with SQL preferred
- Familiarity with Tools: Git, GitHub, Git Bash, Ansible, Terraform is a plus
- Strong problem-solving skills
- Ability to learn new technologies and applications quickly
- Excellent communication, time management, organization, and planning skills
- Completed 1-2 years of your major program
- Strong passion for technology and Automation
- Strong technical aptitude, critical thinking and quantitative skills with ability to navigate MS Office applications, including Excel, PowerPoint, Word and Outlook
- Works well in a team environment and productive without constant supervision
- Aggressive curiosity
- Attention to detail
Preferred Qualifications:
- Basic knowledge of or experience with SQL preferred
- Familiarity with Tools: Git, GitHub, Git Bash, Ansible, Terraform is a plus
- Prior internship, co-op, or on or off-campus technical experience preferred, but not required
Required Skills: Scripting languages - PowerShell, Scripting languages - JavaScript, Scripting languages - Typescript, SQL, Git, GitHub, Git Bash, Ansible, Terraform, CI/CD pipelines, Monitoring and alerting, Incident response, Performance analysis, Reliability engineering, Infrastructure as code