About the role#
This is an 11-week, full-time, paid internship for Summer 2027. You will join the Site Reliability Engineering team to keep T-Mobile systems reliable, available, and fast. You will work on real projects, collaborate with mentors, and contribute to infrastructure reliability.
What you'll do#
- Build and enhance monitoring dashboards, alerts, and observability solutions to surface infrastructure and application issues.
- Develop Python or Bash scripts to automate repetitive operational tasks and reduce manual effort.
- Analyze system metrics, logs, and performance trends to identify reliability risks and recommend improvements.
- Support incident investigation, troubleshooting, and root cause analysis.
- Document operational procedures.
- Partner with SRE and engineering teams on capacity planning, infrastructure performance, and continuous improvement initiatives.
What you'll need#
- You must be at least 18 years of age.
- You must be legally authorized to work in the United States now and in the future.
- You must have one or more courses remaining in a bachelor's or graduate degree program after the internship.
- Pursuing a degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or Data Science.
- A foundation in Linux/Unix, networking, and cloud computing.
- Basic scripting experience in Python, Bash, or similar languages.
- Familiarity with AWS, observability tools (Grafana, Prometheus, or Splunk), CI/CD, Git, containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform).
- Hands-on experience from academic projects, internships, personal projects, open-source work, technical clubs, or hackathons.
- An AWS Cloud Practitioner or Solutions Architect Associate certification is a plus.
Location & details#
- Locations: Frisco, Texas or Atlanta, Georgia.
- Modality: On-site.
- Sponsorship: Not provided.
About T-Mobile
T-Mobile is a telecommunications company based in Bellevue, Washington. It operates a 5G network that provides wireless services to consumers and businesses. The company manages several brands including Metro by T-Mobile and Mint Mobile. It functions as a public company with a workforce of over 10,000 employees.
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