Conversant’s Technical Internship is a 10-week opportunity for rising Juniors to rising Seniors to develop their technical capabilities while learning new technologies and concepts with opportunities throughout the summer to attend professional learning sessions helping to further expand their knowledge in Conversant and our technology platforms. As a Technical Intern, you’ll have an opportunity to explore one of the areas below:

DevOps:

• Develop Linux operational experience in an agile, enterprise level environment
• Learn and utilize configuration management tools at scale
• Problem solve issues surrounds a growing proxy environment handling 1.5 million requests per second
• Hands-on exposure to Docker and container ecosystems

Network Engineering:

• Use network automation projects as a lens to gain exposure to network operation and engineering
• Developing network automation tools, testing new architectures and automation techniques, extending existing in-house and commercial toolsets to implement new functionality
• Python and Linux, network fundamentals, exposure to Cisco or other network vendor’s hardware and software is a plus

UI Team:

• Analyze, redesign and improve automated test code
• Work on production codebase using JavaScript (ES6), node.js, and Angular
• Actively participate in daily stands and other aspects of the agile process

Data Warehouse:

• Data Onboarding; learn the business behind how we take a client from first conversation to campaign launch on the ad server and everything in between
• Data Monitoring; learn the key metrics the business uses to gauge the health of the operation and how to take action when outliers/anomalies are detected
• Inventory of Client Reporting Assets; learn how the Conversant client base consumes data from our operation and make contributions in how to craft efficiencies in this space
• Structured Query Language, Data Integration, Data Mining, Statistics, Reporting/Business Intelligence, Hadoop/Big Data Environments a plus

Ad Server:

• Work and learn alongside a team of highly-skilled, experienced software engineers extending our world-class ad tech platform
• Develop high-performance Java code designed to run on a proprietary distributed system processing millions of requests per second
• Write code interfacing with ‘big data’ technologies such as NoSQL data stores and Kafka and Spark clusters
• Troubleshoot and debug production issues

Education and Experience

• Candidate for Bachelor’s in Computer Science or related technical field
• Strong interpersonal skills and team player attitude
• Strong organizational skills and proven ability to communicate (written & verbal)
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, problem solving, decision making skills
• Thrives in a dynamic fast-paced environment
• Experience with SQL, Java, Python and/or Linux preferred