DevOps Engineer Intern - Summer 2027 at DV Trading LLC

<p data-renderer-start-pos="1" data-local-id="5d6d5c6caa36"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong data-renderer-mark="true">About Us</strong>:</span><br><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Founded 20 years ago and headquartered in Chicago, the&nbsp;<span data-highlighted="true" data-vc="highlighted-text"><span class="_kqswh2mm"><span class="_5pioz8co _189e1dm9 _1il9buyh _19lc184f _d0altlke" data-testid="definition-highlighter">DV</span></span></span> Group of financial services firms has grown to more than 600 people operating throughout North America, Europe and Asia. Since spinning out of a large brokerage firm in 2016, <span data-highlighted="true" data-vc="highlighted-text">DV</span> Trading has rapidly scaled as an independent proprietary trading firm utilizing its own capital, trading strategies, and risk management methodologies to provide liquidity to worldwide financial markets and hedging opportunities to commodity producers and users. Now, <span data-highlighted="true" data-vc="highlighted-text">DV</span> group affiliates include two broker dealers, a cryptocurrency market making firm, and a bourgeoning investment adviser.</span></p> <p data-renderer-start-pos="1" data-local-id="5d6d5c6caa36"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong data-renderer-mark="true">Overview:<br></strong></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span data-olk-copy-source="MessageBody">As a DevOps Engineer Intern, you'll work directly within a small, global DevOps team that owns firm-wide infrastructure and platform solutions. This is a high-impact, high-visibility role where your work ships to production.</span></span></p> <p data-renderer-start-pos="706" data-local-id="6d17a07f558d"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong data-renderer-mark="true">Responsibilities:</strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Deploy and operate workloads on Kubernetes: containers, Pods, Deployments, Services, Ingress, and basic storage (PV/PVC concepts).</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Work in a GitOps model using Argo CD (or equivalent): reconcile desired state from git, troubleshoot sync and health, propose safe changes via merge requests.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Extend observability: OpenTelemetry concepts, Prometheus targets and exporters, Grafana dashboards, and Alertmanager routing—always starting in lower environments.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Triage alerts end-to-end: validate signal, correlate with recent changes, document findings, and escalate with evidence.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Build dashboards and panels from existing metrics; add recording rules or queries only with review when appropriate.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Participate in platform upgrades (Kubernetes components, agents, or controllers) following runbooks and change windows.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Support migration of services from bare metal to Kubernetes under mentorship (discovery, manifests/Helm values, networking, cutover planning).</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Contribute to internal AI-assisted tooling: use AI thoughtfully (verify outputs, protect secrets and customer data), and help improve safe, tool-based agents that use internal APIs and observability data.</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Requirements:</strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Pursuing a BS or MS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Expected to graduate by <strong>Summer 2028</strong></span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Hands-on Linux fundamentals (shell, processes, logs, permissions, basic troubleshooting).</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Networking basics: DNS, TCP/HTTP/S, ports, load balancing vs Ingress at a conceptual level.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Git workflow: branches, merge requests, meaningful commit messages.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Python for automation and scripting; comfortable reading YAML for Kubernetes and CI configs.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Interest in SRE/DevOps practices: reliability, least privilege, documenting what you run.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Preferred: coursework or projects involving Kubernetes, Prometheus/Grafana, CI/CD, Terraform/Ansible, or cloud (AWS/GCP/Azure); contributions to homelab or open source.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Preferred: thoughtful use of AI coding assistants and interest in agent patterns (tools, guardrails, human review)—not required to ship ML models.</span></li> </ul> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><em>Compensation Range: $40.00-$50.00 per hour</em></p> <p><em data-renderer-mark="true"><span data-highlighted="true" data-vc="highlighted-text">DV</span> is not accepting unsolicited resumes from search firms. Only search firms with valid, written agreements with <span data-highlighted="true" data-vc="highlighted-text">DV</span> should submit resumes in response to <span data-highlighted="true" data-vc="highlighted-text">DV</span>’s posted positions. All resumes submitted by search firms to <span data-highlighted="true" data-vc="highlighted-text">DV</span> via e-mail, the Internet, personal delivery, facsimile, or any other method without a valid written agreement shall be deemed the sole property of <span data-highlighted="true" data-vc="highlighted-text">DV</span>, and no fee will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by <span data-highlighted="true" data-vc="highlighted-text">DV</span>. <span data-highlighted="true" data-vc="highlighted-text">DV</span> is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.</em></p>