Intern Infrastructure Engineering

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Intern Infrastructure Engineering
MN-Lakeville
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Empowered to live. Inspired to work.
Compeer Financial is a member-owned cooperative located in Illinois, Minnesota and Wisconsin. We bring together team members with a variety of backgrounds and experiences to help provide financial services to support agriculture and rural communities. Join us in a culture that not only promotes meaningful work and professional development, but provides a flexible, hybrid work environment and excellent benefits, which empower you to thrive both personally and professionally.
How we support you:
Hybrid model – up to 50% work from home
Flexible schedules including ample flexibility in the summer months
Up to 9% towards 401k (3% fixed Compeer contribution plus up to 6% match)
Benefits: medical, dental, vision, HSA/FSA, life & AD&D insurance, short-term and long-term disability, wellness program & EAP
Vacation, sick leave, holidays/floating holidays, parental leave, and volunteer paid time off
Learning and development programs
Mentorship programs
Cross-functional committee opportunities (i.e. Inclusion Council, emerging professional groups, etc.)
Professional membership/certification reimbursement and more!
Casual/seasonal & intern team members are not eligible for benefits except for state-mandated programs.
To learn more about Compeer Financial visit www.compeer.com/careers.
CPT & Pre-Opt candidates invited to apply.
This is a paid internship; however, the intern must provide their own housing and transportation. Business related transportation and expenses will be paid by the organization. This intern will work full-time through the summer of 2027. The internship is located out of Lakeville, MN office location. If pursuing internship credit through your university, it is your responsibility to consult with your advisor and review the internship's job description to ensure it meets the minimum eligibility requirements.
The contributions you will make:
The Infrastructure Engineering Intern is a temporary developmental role designed to provide practical experience supporting the technology platforms that enable Compeer’s business operations. Working with guidance from experienced infrastructure engineers, this role contributes to well-defined activities that improve the reliability, availability, security, documentation, and lifecycle management of infrastructure services.
The intern will gain exposure to enterprise infrastructure, including cloud and on-premises platforms, storage, compute, networking, monitoring, automation, disaster recovery, and technical service management. The role develops technical, professional, and business capabilities while helping the team advance meaningful reliability, resiliency, and modernization work.
A typical day:
Support well-defined infrastructure assignments under guidance, with attention to quality, security, reliability, documentation, and established technical standards.
Assist with maintaining infrastructure documentation, runbooks, inventories, dependency information, lifecycle records, and operational reports.
Help gather, validate, and organize data to support infrastructure lifecycle planning, technical debt identification, platform health assessments, and audit or remediation activities.
Participate in monitoring and observability activities by reviewing alerts, trends, dashboards, and capacity or performance information with team guidance.
Assist with the creation and maintenance of automation scripts, repeatable procedures, and operational documentation.
Support disaster recovery, resiliency, and business-continuity readiness activities through documentation, evidence collection, exercise preparation, and follow-up tracking.
Participate in incident, problem, and change-management activities as appropriate; contribute to root-cause learning and continuous-improvement efforts.
Use AI-enabled tools responsibly to accelerate research, documentation, analysis, and routine work while validating results, protecting sensitive information, and maintaining human accountability.
Collaborate with infrastructure engineers, security, architecture, application teams, service management, vendors, and business partners.
Seek coaching, apply feedback, build technical knowledge, and demonstrate accountability for personal growth and assigned deliverables.
The skills and experience we prefer you have:
Currently pursuing a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Cybersecurity, Management Information Systems, or a related technical discipline.
Coursework, projects, or experience related to systems administration, networking, cloud computing, cybersecurity, automation, databases, or enterprise technology.
Foundational understanding of operating systems, networking concepts, servers, cloud platforms, or infrastructure services.
Familiarity with one or more scripting or automation languages, such as PowerShell, Python, Bash, or a comparable language.
Exposure to monitoring, logging, infrastructure-as-code, configuration management, or IT service-management concepts is preferred.
Strong analytical and organizational skills, with the ability to gather data, identify trends, document findings, and follow established processes.
Ability to communicate clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders and ask thoughtful questions when clarification is needed.
Ability to manage assigned work, adapt to changing priorities, and follow through on commitments.
Demonstrated curiosity, learning agility, attention to detail, and interest in building a career in infrastructure engineering or technology operations.
Commitment to protecting confidential information and following security, change-management, and technology standards.
How we will take care of you:
Actual hourly rate offered is dependent upon year in school, work experience, transferable skills, business needs and market demands. The hourly rate range is subject to change and may be modified in the future.
Base Pay
$20 - $21 USD
Compeer Financial is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Must be authorized to work for any employer in the United States. Compeer is unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa at this time.
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