Working Student Intern DevOps Site Reliability Engineer (fmx)

Team: Engineering Reports to: CTO Format: Working Student (1020h/week) or Internship (36 months)

Keep the world awake - kickstart your SRE career at scale

ilert helps thousands of DevOps & IT teams detect fix and communicate incidents faster. Our platform is mission-critical: customers rely on us 24/7 to keep their always-on businesses running.

Whether you are looking for a long-term working student position alongside your studies or a full-time internship to dive deep into infrastructure you will be an integrated member of our engineering team. You wont just be fetching coffee; youll be helping us maintain the reliability performance and scalability of a platform running on AWS Kubernetes and Kafka.

Tasks

• Platform Learning & Support: Assist in operating our AWS-based infrastructure and Kubernetes clusters.
• Observability: Help build and refine SLOs SLIs and dashboards (Grafana/Prometheus) to ensure our systems are transparent and healthy.
• Automation: Work with Terraform and CI/CD pipelines to eliminate manual toil and automate operational tasks.
• Distributed Systems: Gain hands-on experience with high-throughput systems like Kafka and ClickHouse.
• AI Innovation: Support the team in strengthening incident response workflows through collaboration with our AI SRE agent team.
• Documentation: Help maintain our technical runbooks and documentation to ensure we remain always-on.

Requirements

• Current Student: You are enrolled in Computer Science IT Security Mathematics or a similar technical degree.
• Foundational Knowledge: You understand the basics of Linux internals and how the internet works (DNS HTTP TCP/IP).
• Scripting Mindset: You have some experience with at least one programming/scripting language (e.g. Python Go or Bash).
• Infrastructure Curiosity: You have a builder mindset and a genuine interest in Cloud Computing and DevOps.
• Bonus Points: Youve experimented with Docker a cloud provider (AWS/GCP/Azure) or CI/CD tools in university or side projects.
• Language: Fluent English (our working language). German is a nice-to-have but not required.

Benefits

• Real Impact: Work on a product that is essential for the uptime of companies globally.
• Hybrid Freedom: Join us in our Rheinauhafen office (3 days) with a great roof terrace and work from home (2 days).
• Flexibility: We prioritize your exams. Working students can adjust hours during peak study times; Interns get a deep-dive professional immersion.
• Mentorship: Learn directly from senior SREs and our CTO in a flat-hierarchy environment.
• Focus Culture: We value maker time minimize meetings and favor asynchronous communication.

At ilert we hire for potential. Even if you havent mastered every tool in our stack yet we want to hear from you if you are passionate about building resilient systems.

Key Skills
Kubernetes,FMEA,Continuous Improvement,Elasticsearch,Go,Root cause Analysis,Maximo,CMMS,Maintenance,Mechanical Engineering,Manufacturing,Troubleshooting
Employment Type : Working student
Experience: years
Vacancy: 1