IT Cloud Engineer Intern - Summer 2023

FirstEnergy at a Glance

We are a forward-thinking electric utility powered by a diverse team of employees committed to making customers’ lives brighter, the environment better and our communities stronger.

FirstEnergy (NYSE: FE) is dedicated to integrity, safety, reliability and operational excellence. Headquartered in Akron, Ohio, FirstEnergy includes one of the nation's largest investor-owned electric systems, more than 24,000 miles of transmission lines that connect the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic regions, and a regulated generating fleet with a total capacity of more than 3,500 megawatts.

About the Opportunity

This is an open position with FirstEnergy Service Co., a subsidiary of FirstEnergy Corp. [SC00]

The ability to work remotely within the United States may be available based on business need. This option is not available in the states of California, Colorado, Illinois, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Montana, Nebraska, New York, Oregon or Washington at this time.

The Information Technology organization at FirstEnergy creates and maintains software solutions, and operates FirstEnergy data centers, service desks and voice/data networks.

As a participant in the Co-op/Intern Professional Development Program, you will be cultivating professional skills and performing professional level work at FirstEnergy. Each participant will receive on-the-job training, and challenging assignments to refine skills and round out competencies. Summer Internships with FirstEnergy are full-time opportunities spanning 13 weeks. FirstEnergy offers paid internships to qualified students actively enrolled in an accredited university or college.

We have recently embarked on a Digital transformation journey where we are reimaging the way we work and serve our users. Our projects benefit the community by aiding in providing safe, reliable electricity to everyone:

• Customer: create analytics to improve customer satisfaction along the customer journey for a lifetime as they move-in to a residence, pay their bill and move to new residences.

• Transmission & Distribution: develop algorithms to detect asset failures, reduce outages and provide reliable electricity to customers.

• Smart Meter: provide customers with the electric usage they need to make smart decisions about their home as well as reduce threats and theft in the electric system.

As a Cloud Engineer intern at FirstEnergy, you will work on an agile, diverse, and cross-functional team to automate the deployment of cloud infrastructure and services to support application development and hosting. Some of the tasks completed by a Cloud Engineer are architecting, engineering, deploying, and operationally managing the logical and physical cloud computing infrastructure for the enterprise.

Examples of possible job duties and responsibilities of a Cloud Engineer intern:

• Creating software components, modules and integrations that are dynamically scalable and highly available services in a cloud environment.

• Assist in the creation of software testing implementations including unit, functional, acceptance, performance, and security tests.

• Support cloud developers in optimizing and automating cloud engineering activities such as real time migration, provisioning, and deployment, etc.

• Continually improving cloud product reliability, availability, maintainability & cost/benefit

• Provide inputs to IT financial management for cloud – on costs associated with capacity build-out, forecast for cloud IT investments, etc.

Applicant Requirements:

• Currently enrolled, full time, in a bachelor’s degree program at an accredited university/college focusing on Information Technology, Computer Science or other related disciplines.

• Class Standing –or Junior (Graduating in Fall 2024 or Spring 2025) or Sophomore (Graduating in Fall 2023 or Spring 2024).

• Maintain a minimum cumulative GPA of 2.5.

• Must have the ability to work without sponsorship (now or in the future)

• Have a strong interest in cloud computing & automation

Preferred Skills/Experience:

• Deploying and operating in an Azure cloud environment (AWS and GCP experience is nice to have)

• Experience in Agile/Scrum methodologies using Azure DevOps

• Comfortable working in an environment with rapid prototyping and piloting of cloud solutions

• Experience in infrastructure as code (e.g., ARM, DevOps, GitLab, Terraform, Puppet, Ansible, Chef, Chocolatey)

Ideal Candidate:

• Highly motivated to work independently and productively and learn quickly

• Must be organized and work well with constant priority changes

• Proven team player, contributes to team goals, encourages, and supports team members

• Willingness to undertake assignments involving unfamiliar subjects

• Organizational skills to prioritize and plan work, multi-task and meet schedules

• Ability to work remotely, utilizing virtual technologies

• robust communication skills, both verbal and written, to effectively participate on a team and in remote meetings and conference calls

• Sound understanding of Microsoft Office line of products, especially Word, Excel and PowerPoint

• Strong attention to detail

• Strong technical writing skills

Resume Requirements:  

Please include your Major/Minor/Degree, GPA, and anticipated graduation date on your resume.

Resume Suggestions:

We encourage you to include on your resume courses completed relevant to the position you are applying. Additionally, tell us about school projects where you utilized the skills needed for the position in which you are applying. Technology enthusiasts: be sure to describe your tech hobbies and use of technology outside of the classroom on your resume.

To Apply:

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Safety

Safety is a core value for FirstEnergy and is essential to all of our business activities. We ensure employees have the tools, information, and processes to perform their duties in a manner that assures safety for themselves, their co-workers, our customers and the public. Our goals are to provide a safe work environment, to maintain an accident-free, injury-free workplace, and to promote and maintain public safety. To meet these goals, we dedicate ourselves to achieving world-class safety standards.

Position Classification

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FirstEnergy Human Resources Team