Information Technology Internship

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Position: Intern/Volunteer, Information Systems
Location: San Francisco, CA - Downtown/Mission District
Job Type: Volunteer, Part or Full-Time

Term: 5-12 Months
Preferred Start Dates: ASAP

Job Description:

Kivas IT internship program provides junior-level IT candidates the opportunity to advance their skills while helping achieve Kivas mission of alleviating poverty.

This internship will be technically challenging.

You will advance your skills during your time here. You will learn IT best practices and improve your abilities to script, monitor, automate, and scale network services.

Upon acceptance, an informal curriculum will be co-developed with the IT intern candidate and the IT support manager. Curriculum for candidates that can commit to a 12-month internship will seek to satisfy the Required Skill set of a Sage Level IV system administration for a Complex Site.

You will learn to take a serious workload, organize it, automate what you can, reduce it stepwise, and make it tolerable if not fun.

Although we will do our best to work around school and other work schedules, most candidates will need to spend at least 24 hours per week on-site for 5-12 months to make this work.

Candidates will be expected to perform:

* Troubleshooting network and computer issues.
* Troubleshooting server issues.
* Documenting solutions.
* Testing and monitoring of internal services.
* Development and rollout of new services.
* Train end users and other sysadmins.