Technology Intern - Infrastructure
Whether the cook in the kitchen is a future Emeril or a toddler helping to make chocolate chip cookies, (licking the spoon), chances are Pampered Chef has a better, faster, and more delicious way of getting things done in the kitchen. We sell our superior quality, innovative collection of prepping, cooking and serving products through a network of over 40,000 direct sales consultants throughout the US, Canada and Germany. Millions of customers use our products every day. Each of our 450 HQ coworkers from product designers, supply chain specialists to ecommerce developers are committed to bringing the best to our customers. And have fun doing it!
Established in 1980 by Doris Christopher, Pampered Chef was acquired by Berkshire Hathaway in 2002, a sure sign of our growth potential. In 2014, Tracy Britt Cool, a key member of Warren Buffett’s team, joined as our CEO to lead our transformation into a progressive, open door, cutting edge workplace. We believe happy coworkers are the best coworkers and are committed to keeping creativity, innovative solutions and customer engagement top of mind. Pampered Chef is pushing the boundaries for our customers, consultants, and coworkers.
MAIN COURSE (Job Responsibilities):- You’ll be part of the team – working with other UNIX/Windows System Administrators, Network Administrators, Security Administrator and Database Administrators.
- As you continue to enhance our application/infrastructure, you will learn about our customers, the products we sell, consultant challenges, and the direct sales business climate
- You’ll provision Virtual Machines, install and configure Server and Network Hardware.
- You’ll perform server management, change management, capacity management, and configuration management.
- You’ll participate in incident management process and play an active role to identify root cause of incidents
- You’ll perform network security and access management.
- You’ll provide continuous improvement by maintaining a secure, high-availability computing environment by managing server and network hardware, software, and vendors in an evolving LAN and global WAN environment.
- You’ll leverage new and emerging technology to maintain industry competitiveness
- In your Junior year actively pursuing a degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering
- Familiarity with Microsoft Windows Server line of products (Server 2008 R2, SCCM, SCOM, Exchange, Office Suite, Active Directory, MS SQL)
- Familiarity with LINUX (preferably RHEL)
- Familiarity with building and maintaining virtualized environments including servers and desktops
- Familiarity with Oracle Database.
- You are passionate about technology and love to experiment and learn
- You have good verbal and written communication skills
WHAT’S IN OUR TECH PANTRY
Vmware ESX Hypervisor, RedHat Enterprise LINUX, LAMP, Windows, Simplivity Hyper-converge, Cisco ASA Firewalls, f5 BigIP Load Balancers, Nexus Core Switches, HP Servers, MDF/IDF Switches, PRTG, PagerDuty, Office 365, Pure Storage, AppDynamics, Oracle ERP, Oracle Service Cloud, Qualys, WhiteHat.