Site Reliability Engineer - Internship 2026

Job Description:

Introduction

A career in IBM Software means you'll be part of a team that transforms our customer's challenges into solutions.

Seeking new possibilities and always staying curious, we are a team dedicated to creating the world's leading AI-powered, cloud-native software solutions for our customers. Our renowned legacy creates endless global opportunities for our IBMers, so the door is always open for those who want to grow their career.

IBM's product and technology landscape includes Research, Software, and Infrastructure. Entering this domain positions you at the heart of IBM, where growth and innovation thrive.

Your role and responsibilities

As a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), you will specialize in ensuring the reliability and resiliency of our systems. Bringing a unique blend of knowledge and skills in both software and systems, you will play a key role in analyzing business needs, identifying and solving problems, advising and designing solutions, building and testing, deploying and managing changes, and maintaining well-engineered information systems and ecosystems.

Your primary responsibilities include:
* Identify and investigate issues, using troubleshooting techniques in order to drive issues towards a resolution
* Work in a global team collaborating with IBMers to share recommendations, solutions and ideas
* Look for enhancements and innovative solutions to help the services scale and improve existing technical support tools, procedures, or processes
* Develop and enhance your technical knowledge via projects and assignments, as well as through IBM's world class learning platform

Required education
None

Preferred education
Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

* Understanding of software development life cycle and delivery process
* Understanding of Cloud/DevOps/SRE engineering
* Familiarity with a modern configuration management framework
* Familiarity with one or more monitoring frameworks
* General scripting skills in at least one language
* Understanding with source control management
* Ability to manage multiple tasks, while ensuring that commitments and timetables are met
* Ability to partner with internal stakeholders to adhere to operational solutions
* Ability to work with short timeline and under stress and oncall
* Goal oriented, forward thinker that can provide solutions for technical problems
* Fluent in spoken and written English

Preferred technical and professional experience

* Familiarity with monitoring/observability tools
* Familiarity with any major cloud provider
* Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes/OpenShift
* Familiarity with Linux OS