Intern Infrastructure Engineering

The role

The Infrastructure Engineering Intern provides practical experience supporting technology platforms. This role contributes to activities that improve the reliability, availability, security, documentation, and lifecycle management of infrastructure services.

What you will do

• Support well-defined infrastructure assignments under guidance.
• Assist with maintaining infrastructure documentation, runbooks, inventories, and reports.
• Help gather, validate, and organize data for lifecycle planning and health assessments.
• Participate in monitoring and observability activities.
• Assist with the creation and maintenance of automation scripts and operational documentation.
• Support disaster recovery, resiliency, and business-continuity readiness activities.
• Participate in incident, problem, and change-management activities.
• Use AI-enabled tools responsibly to accelerate research and routine work.
• Collaborate with infrastructure engineers, security, architecture, and other teams.
• Seek coaching and apply feedback for personal growth.

Required qualifications

• Currently pursuing a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Cybersecurity, Management Information Systems, or a related technical discipline.
• Coursework, projects, or experience related to systems administration, networking, cloud computing, cybersecurity, automation, databases, or enterprise technology.
• Foundational understanding of operating systems, networking concepts, servers, cloud platforms, or infrastructure services.
• Familiarity with one or more scripting or automation languages, such as PowerShell, Python, Bash, or a comparable language.
• Strong analytical and organizational skills.
• Ability to communicate clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Ability to manage assigned work, adapt to changing priorities, and follow through on commitments.
• Demonstrated curiosity, learning agility, attention to detail, and interest in building a career in infrastructure engineering or technology operations.
• Commitment to protecting confidential information and following security, change-management, and technology standards.

Nice to have

• Exposure to monitoring, logging, infrastructure-as-code, configuration management, or IT service-management concepts

Benefits

• Hybrid model – up to 50% work from home
• Flexible schedules including ample flexibility in the summer months
• Up to 9% towards 401k (3% fixed Compeer contribution plus up to 6% match)
• Medical, dental, vision, HSA/FSA, life & AD&D insurance, short-term and long-term disability, wellness program & EAP
• Vacation, sick leave, holidays/floating holidays, parental leave, and volunteer paid time off
• Learning and development programs
• Mentorship programs
• Cross-functional committee opportunities
• Professional membership/certification reimbursement

Before you apply

• Intern must provide their own housing and transportation.
• Must be authorized to work for any employer in the United States.
• Compeer is unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa at this time.

About the company

Compeer Financial is a member-owned cooperative located in Illinois, Minnesota and Wisconsin. They provide financial services to support agriculture and rural communities.