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About Calix

Calix is a telecommunications equipment supplier that focuses on providing broadband access systems and software solutions to service providers worldwide. The company specializes in delivering innovative technologies that enable fast and reliable communication networks, facilitating connectivity for residential and business customers.

Your role

The duration of the internship program will be 1 year.

In this role, you will work with cross-functional teams ranging from Cloud Operation, Platform Engineering, Development, and Testing to automate, build, and integrate a large-scale infrastructure system.

Responsibilities and duties:

• Design the infrastructure platform components to be highly available, scalable, reliable, and secure.
• Automate the entire lifecycle of platform components from provisioning through decommissioning.
• Ensure Observability is an integral part of the infrastructure platforms and provides adequate visibility about their health, utilization, and cost.
• Build Cloud-native CI/CD pipelines, tools, and automation that enable developer autonomy and improve their productivity.
• Build tools that predict saturations/failures and take preventive actions through automation.
• Collaborate extensively with cross-functional teams to understand their requirements.

Training & development   

At Calix, the intern training is a personalized journey where mentorship from leaders and team members ensures a guided and impactful project experience. You'll receive hands-on guidance, fostering a dynamic learning environment that prioritizes project delivery on time and with tangible value, setting the foundation for a successful and enriching internship at Calix.

Benefits

Calix provides a great working environment along with the following benefits:

• Competitive salary
• Build Professional Network
• Mentorship and Guidance
• Work on real and relevant projects
• Learning and development
• Team-building

Career progression

An internship at Calix allows you to build marketable skills. You will work on meaningful and relevant projects that provide value to the business. Calix internships provide you the opportunity to build your resume with accomplishments that you can be proud of that have real-world impact.

Work-life balance

At Calix, they make sure employees have a good balance between work and personal life. The company cares about your well-being, supports you, and guides you through projects, so you can get the job done well without sacrificing your time. It's a place where you can do your best at work and still have a good life outside of it.

Culture & vibe

At Calix, innovation is the heartbeat of its culture, encouraging individuals to challenge norms, leverage cutting-edge technologies, and actively contribute to transforming the broadband industry. With a mindset of relentless pursuit and a commitment to pushing boundaries, Calix fosters a dynamic environment where revolutionary thinking is celebrated, creating a workplace that thrives on continuous improvement and refuses to settle for the status quo.

About you

Qualifications:

• Bachelors or master's in computer science/information technology / Electronics & Communication / Electrical & Electronics. Should have graduated in 2023 / 2024.
• Familiar with building Infrastructure Platforms and CI/CD pipelines in a major public cloud provide – AWS preferred; Some of the commonly used Cloud infrastructure/platforms services (e.g., EC2, S3/EBS/EFS, ELB/DNS/NAT/WAF, RDS/Aurora, SNS/SQS, Elasticache, IAM/KMS/SecretsManager, Lambda, etc.)
• Familiar with Kubernetes and its ecosystem – Containers/Docker, Helm/Plulumi, ServiceMesh, Terraform, Ansible, ArgoCD/Workflow, Tekton, Keptn etc.
• Familiar with observability platforms/tools like ELK/Fluentd/Fluenbit, Grafana/Prometheus/OpenTelemetry, Cortex/InfluxDB and Jaeger/Zipkin, etc.
• Familiar with Python, Golang, or a similar language.
• Must understand basic computer programming concepts, data structures, and object-oriented programming. 
• Familiar with source control applications such as GIT. 
• Strong communication skills and excellent telephone presence.

Sources

The following sources were used in researching this page:

• calix.com/careers/internships.html
• youtube.com