What are the responsibilities and job description for the Intern - Azure Platform SRE position at GM Financial?
Why GM Financial?
GM Financial is the wholly owned captive finance subsidiary of General Motors and is headquartered in Fort Worth, U.S. We are a global provider of auto finance solutions, with operations in North America, South America, and the Asia Pacific region. Through our long-standing relationships with auto dealers, we offer attractive retail financing and lease programs to meet the needs of each customer. We also offer commercial lending products to dealers to help them finance and grow their businesses.
At GM Financial, our team members define and shape our culture — an environment that welcomes innovative ideas, fosters integrity, and creates a sense of community and belonging. Here we do more than work — we thrive.
Our Purpose: We pioneer the innovations that move and connect people to what matters.
Our program offers
- 12 weeks of work experience (May 21 – Aug. 8, 2025)
- Competitive salary
- Executive and peer networking opportunities
- Independent and team project experiences
- Philanthropic activities
- Career development
- Opportunity to apply for full-time career positions.
Responsibilities
The Cloud Engineer is responsible for working collaboratively in an agile team to implement highly available and secure cloud technologies. The person in this role is also responsible for continuous monitoring and optimization of the cloud implementation for efficiencies and continuous support of, and collaboration with, other teams and projects, particularly DevOps, platform, and automation teams. The person in this role must be a highly collaborative, creative, and intellectually curious individual who is passionate about forming and implementing cutting-edge cloud computing capabilities.
Job Description:
· Build secure cloud solutions in major public clouds such as Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services |
· Collaborate with product owners and managers to establish service level objectives for applications and agreed consequences if the objectives are not being met |
· Collaborate with development team members to swarm, troubleshoot, and resolve problems that may exist in cloud-hosted environments. |
Qualifications
Qualifications
- Must be a current student pursuing a bachelor's degree or higher from an accredited college or university in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field with at least one semester remaining upon start of the internship.
- Must possess a minimum of a 3.0 (out of a 4-point scale) overall GPA.
- Junior or Senior classification preferred.
- Experience or coursework in cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
- basic understanding of cloud services such as IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS.
- Familiarity with cloud security principles, networking, and database services in a cloud environment.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills required. This incumbent will be required to give presentations and communicate with business leaders.
- Strong analytical, quantitative, problem solving, and conceptual skills required.
- Must be detail oriented and able to prioritize tasks to meet deadlines.
- Must be able to work independently or in a team setting.
- Previous internships are considered a plus.
Our Culture: Our team members define and shape our culture — an environment that welcomes innovative ideas, fosters integrity, and creates a sense of community and belonging. Here we do more than work — we thrive.
Compensation: Competitive pay
Work Life Balance: Flexible hybrid work environment, 2 days a week in office
GM Financial does not provide sponsorship for a work visa status for this position.
