IT DevOps Intern

FHLBank Pittsburgh offers 12-week paid internships as a part of its talent acquisition strategy. Talented students are provided with the opportunity to gain hands-on work experience, explore their career interests and broaden their professional network while helping FHLBank Pittsburgh achieve its business objectives and strategic goals. The program is designed to offer a substantive experience by exposing talented students to the banking industry and our culture of development through clearly defined responsibilities and/or projects.

To promote collaboration and relationship building, FHLBank Pittsburgh operates in a hybrid model with employees in the office three days per week and remote two days per week.

The IT DevOps Intern will:

• Learn core DevOps concepts and practices

• Use cloud IaC tools (AWS CloudFormation/Terraform) and GitHub

• Explore AI-assisted coding during the engagement

• Build simple CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions) for apps and infra

• Automate tasks with scripts (Python/Bash) and reusable modules

• Containerize services (Docker) and deploy to Kubernetes/EKS

• Set up monitoring/logging (CloudWatch, Prometheus/Grafana) with alerts

Required Experience

• Students must be enrolled in an accredited four-year institution and have completed at least their sophomore year with a minimum GPA of 3.0

• Students must be pursuing a relevant field of study (e.g. Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, Computer Engineering) and have the ability to work, at a minimum, May/June through August of the internship year

• Interest and passion about AI and how it can be applied to accelerate DevOps

• Exposed to or knowledge of Cloud technologies (e.g., AWS)

• Familiar with GitHub - clone repositories, commit changes, and create pull requests.

• Exposure to tools like Terraform or CloudFormation (even at a conceptual level).

• Understand basic concepts like CI/CD, version control, and automation.

• Ability to write simple scripts in Python for automation and AI workflows

• Awareness of IAM principles (least privilege) and compliance basics.

• Ability to learn quickly, troubleshoot simple issues, and ask the right questions.

It is the policy of the Federal Home Loan Bank of Pittsburgh to ensure equal employment opportunity (EEO) for all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, religion, color, sex, national origin, age, disability status, genetic information, veteran's status, ancestry, sexual orientation or status as a parent as defined by applicable law. It is the Bank's policy to comply with applicable laws concerning the employment of persons with disabilities, including reasonable accommodation for applicants and employees with disabilities.