What are the responsibilities and job description for the EngOps Intern position at Sonatus?
Sonatus is a well-funded, fast-paced, and fast-growing company whose technologies and software help automakers build dynamic software-defined vehicles. With two generations of solutions already on the road with a top global OEM, our vehicle and cloud software solutions are at the forefront of the digital transformation of vehicles. The Sonatus team is a talented and diverse collection of technology and automotive specialists hailing from many of the most prominent companies in their respective industries.
We are seeking an Engineering Operations Intern to learn about and help with optimizing our processes as well as on-prem and SaaS infrastructure, ensuring its reliability, scalability, and performance. In this role, you will contribute to the design, implementation, and management of our infrastructure and tools. You will acquire skills to maintain a high-availability environment for our applications and services. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to automate and streamline our operations, troubleshoot issues, and contribute to the overall architecture and strategy of our on-prem and SaaS infrastructure.
Applications are open until March 10th. Interviews will take place at the end of March/Early April. Internships will begin in June and end in August 2025.
Duties and Responsibilities- Help evaluate, configure, operate, maintain engineering applications, tools and utilities, on-prem and in hybrid or full cloud environments.
- Assist with the administration of our CI/CT pipeline (Jenkins or similar solutions).
- Set up and manage compute, network, storage in coordination with IT.
- Develop and enhance tools to increase engineering productivity.
- Install and manage engineering workstations and tools such as Jenkins, web services / dashboards, MySQL databases, Jama, etc.
- Develop tools for automation in Python, PHP, bash.
- Collaborate with TPMs, operations, development and QA to assess requirements for engineering to work smoothly, efficiently, and within budget.
- Think outside the box and from a customer's perspective on how to improve existing processes and come up with innovative solutions to challenges.
- Assist in the development and implementation of engineering policies, rules, protocols to produce a (security-)compliant work environment across our engineering organization.
- Document changes, new tools & processes, and create dashboards and reports.
- Learn about standards applicable to software companies and help us ensure continuous compliance with those standards, such as ISO 9001, ISO 27001, MISRA, etc.
- Pursuing a Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer engineering, Electrical engineering, or other related fields and interested in a career in EngOps/DevOps/IT, networking, cybersecurity, or a similar field.
- Familiarity with Linux / Unix system environment including the underlying hardware it runs on.
- Basic knowledge of Ethernet networking.
- Prior experience in shell scripting, Python and/or PHP.
- Excellent problem-solving, technical, and analytical abilities.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
- An open and innovative mindset.
- Ability to work from our Sunnyvale HQ 3 days a week.
- Experience with application-level virtualization through tools like Docker, and machine virtualization via hypervisors such as KVM, VMware, or similar.
- Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) technology such as Ansible, Puppet, Chef.
- Knowledge of observability and monitoring tools/frameworks (e.g., Nagios, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack, OpenTelemetry).
- Complimentary lunches, snacks and beverages during on-site working days
The posted salary range is a general guideline and represents a good faith estimate of what Sonatus ("Company") could reasonably expect to pay for this position. The pay offered to a selected candidate will be determined based on factors such as (but not limited to) the scope and responsibilities of the position, the qualifications of the selected candidate, departmental budget availability, geographic location and external market pay for comparable jobs. The Company reserves the right to modify this range in the future, as needed, as market conditions change.
Salary : $20 - $25
