Site Reliability Engineer Intern (Undergraduate - Summer 2025)

You could be the one who changes everything for our 28 million members as an Intern at Centene. During this 12-week program, you'll learn more about Centene and how we're transforming the health of the community, one person at a time.

Position Purpose: Learn about various processes and functions within the Managed Care industry and develop professionally by contributing to projects that support the business.

Duties:

-Research and evaluate applications and services for use by the institution. Provide a matrix when possible, detailing features within each different application or service

-Build innovation in the areas of distributed system flow and resilience, and continuous feedback and delivery

-Helping to create efficiency and cultural transformation through the curation of new systems and capabilities

-Develop and learn best practices strategies on operating an enterprise cloud infrastructure

-Understanding of planning, priorities, and execution of project management

-Perform analysis of existing policies compared to implemented standards

Skills:

• Functional knowledge of object oriented programming (Python preferred)
• Experience (formal or informal) with Gitlab and Github
• Experience with design thinking
• Basic RDBMS skills for create, read, update, and delete operations. Preferred if can be done via code or NoSQL
• Fundamental understanding of API’s. Should be able to consume REST API’s
• Fundamental understanding of principles of basic software design and development – how does software work
• Basic understanding of unit testing or testing in general and the rationale behind it
• Basic understanding of system architecture and overall API infrastructure and architecture
• Preferred:
  • Machine Learning/LLM
  • AI
  • Cloud computing
  • Any experience with real time monitoring tools (e.g. Dynatrace, Splunk)
  • Experience with Micro services
  • Agile mindset

Education/Experience: High school diploma or equivalent. Must be enrolled in an undergraduate program at an accredited university or college, preferably in a field related to the hiring department through the internship period.

Pay Range: $20-26/hour

Centene is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity, and values the ways in which we are different. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or other characteristic protected by applicable law.

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered in accordance with the LA County Ordinance and the California Fair Chance Act