About the role
Are you passionate about technology and curious about how large-scale games stay online, fast, and responsive? Do you want to be part of a team that ensures seamless experiences for players around the world? Then we might just have the perfect internship for you.
At Funcom, we build and support online worlds, and the DevOps team plays a critical role in making sure everything runs smoothly behind the scenes. As a DevOps Intern for a 6-month internship, you'll get hands-on experience with the systems, tools, and practices that keep our games running reliably and efficiently.
How you can have an impact in your position:
- Assist in managing and monitoring game servers to ensure stability, performance, and uptime.
- Help investigate and troubleshoot issues across infrastructure and services.
- Learn to write and maintain automation scripts to streamline tasks and support scaling.
- Support the deployment and configuration of infrastructure using tools like Terraform and Ansible.
- Collaborate with teams across QA, Production, and Player Support to help deliver the best possible experience to players.
- Participate in team meetings, contribute ideas, and learn from experienced engineers in a supportive environment.
- Gain experience working with tools like Kubernetes, RabbitMQ, Terraform, PostgreSQL, and more.
We are looking for you to have:
- Currently pursuing or recently completed a degree in Computer Science, IT, or a related field.
- A genuine interest in DevOps, infrastructure, or systems engineering.
- Basic familiarity with Linux and the command line.
- Exposure to scripting or coding (Bash, Python, or similar).
- A strong eagerness to explore and grow within the DevOps technology stack, including Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, Grafana, Elasticsearch, Kibana, RabbitMQ, and more.
- Problem-solving and a team-player attitude.
- Strong communication skills (especially when you need help—we love questions).
In addition, ideally, you might also have:
- Experience with running personal projects or game servers.
- Familiarity with monitoring tools (like Grafana or Prometheus).
- Experience using version control tools such as Git.
- Some hands-on exposure to CI/CD pipeline tools like Jenkins or GitHub Actions.
About the company
Funcom was founded 32 years ago, in 1993.
We were there in the early days of the massively multiplayer online games, breaking new ground and pioneering features and business models that are commonplace today.
We've made over 25 games, from pixel platformers to more recent titles such as The Longest Journey, Conan Exiles, and Secret World Legends.
With Dune: Awakening, we are weaving together Open World Survival and MMO elements into a Dune tapestry that brings Frank Herbert's sci-fi masterpiece to life in a completely unique way.
Today, over 500 people from more than 40 different nationalities work and play at Funcom across our 5 studios in Oslo, Norway; Lisbon, Portugal; Durham, North Carolina; Stockholm, Sweden; and Bucharest, Romania.
