Puppet Labs - SysAdmin Intern (Portland, OR)

Intern (SysAdmin / Release)

Department: Engineering
Reports to: Release Manager
Location: Portland, OR

Length of Internship: 16 weeks
Type of Internship: Paid
Hours per Week: 20

Summary of Role
Do you have a passion for Open Source software?  Have sysadmin background?
 Interested in the packaging and testing of software used on all major
Linux distributions?  Do you love breaking software in creative ways and
digging in to discover root causality?

Puppet Labs is seeking a Release Intern with SysAdmin experience to work
with the Release Management group of our Engineering team, supporting our
release engineering efforts in a complex, distributed product stack with
near exponential testing possibilities.  During this internship, you will
focus on areas including Community Package Repository Management, SLES
improvements, the Mac experience for Puppet FOSS, and Solaris
improvements.

Qualifications

 - Academic or work experience performing systems administration in a
Linux/Unix environment
 - Basic scripting skills in Bash, Ruby, Perl, and/or Python
 - Familiarity with software development life cycle
 - Experience with Open Source
 - Excitement in working with engineering teams to deliver high-quality
software
 - Strong written and verbal communication skills

Preferred but not required:

 - Exposure to revision control software (CVS, SVN, Git)
 - Academic or work experience doing acceptance, component, capacity,
and/or exploratory testing
 - Experience with packaging software in RPM and/or Deb formats
 - Currently enrolled in a technical undergraduate or graduate degree
program

Application Instructions

Please include a cover letter with your application describing why you are
interested in interning for Puppet Labs, and how you feel your experience
fits the listed qualifications of the position.

Working for Puppet Labs

Based in Portland, Oregon, Puppet Labs creates IT automation software
which enables system administrators to deliver the operational agility and
efficiency of cloud computing at enterprise-class service levels, scaling
from handfuls of nodes on-premise to tens of thousands in the cloud.
Puppet powers thousands of companies, including Twitter, Yelp, eBay,
Zynga, JP Morgan Chase, Bank of America, Google, Disney, Citrix, Oracle,
and Viacom.  Our investors include Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, True
Ventures, Radar Partners, Emerson St. Partners, VMware, Google Ventures,
and Cisco.

Everyone who works here has a real, direct impact on the company, and our
list of interesting and difficult challenges will always be larger than
the time we have to tackle them.  Our work environment is relaxed yet
results driven, encouraging creativity, collaboration, and challenging
each other in order to foster continuous improvement.  Our employees
embody our values, displaying curiosity, self-motivation, adaptability,
and a passion for what Puppet Labs is all about.