Cloud Management Dashboard Intern

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Role Overview

At KBR we are dedicated to advancing technology and providing innovative solutions to our clients. We are looking for a talented and motivated individual to join our team and help us lead the way in hybrid environment instrumentation at an enterprise scale.

As part of KBR you will have the opportunity to develop and enhance the tools and dashboards that are crucial for the success of various teams including DevOps Security and Systems Administration/Engineering. Your contributions will directly impact how we manage and monitor complex systems ensuring efficiency and security across our operations.

This is a hands-on role where youll develop how hybrid environments are instrumented at enterprise scale and contribute code and dashboards that are used by real teams (DevOps Security Systems Administration/Engineering).

*** Three years of continuous U.S. residency required ***

Responsibilities

Data Ingestion & Integration

• Write scripts and REST/API calls to collect data from cloud accounts as well as on premises sources such as Kubernetes and vCenter.
• Write scripts and REST/API calls to collect cost and security information to aggregate and process.

Aggregation & Processing

• Normalize disparate data (metrics events billing security findings) and publish to a centralized data location for display.
• Implement basic ETL steps: shape label and enrich data to support drilldowns and multitenant views.

Dashboards & Visualization

• Build dashboards that show highlevel health/capacity and enable drilldown to specific services clusters nodes or costs.

• Performance Security and Cost
  • Track SLIs/SLOs (latency availability saturation) security posture (e.g. misconfigurations vulnerabilities) and cloud/on-prem costs.
  • Prototype recommendations/remediation hints (e.g. rightsizing idle resource cleanup patch drift).

Minimum Qualifications

• Currently pursuing a degree in Computer Science Information Systems Data Science or related field.
• Foundational knowledge of AWS (can identify common services/resources; understands CloudWatch/CloudTrail concepts).
• Comfortable writing scripts in to call REST/JSON APIs or to scrape and process data.
• Basic exposure to Kubernetes (pods services namespaces) and Prometheus/Grafana (metrics queries panels).
• Familiarity with Linux containers and Git-based workflows.
• Strong problem-solving curiosity and willingness to learn enterprise tooling.
• *** Three years of continuous U.S. residency required ***

Primary Tools & Technologies

Metrics & Visualization

• Prometheus Metrics collection and alerting (can integrate with AWS workloads)
• Grafana Dashboarding and visualization (includingAmazon Managed Grafana)
• Amazon CloudWatch Metrics logs dashboards and alarms

AWS Services

• CloudWatch Core observability (metrics logs dashboards)
• CloudTrail API activity tracking
• AWS Config Resource compliance and configuration history
• Cost Explorer / CUR (Cost & Usage Reports) Cost monitoring and optimization
• AWS X-Ray Distributed tracing for applications
• AWS OpenSearch Service Log aggregation and search
• AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry (ADOT) Instrumentation for metrics and traces

Languages

• Python Automation data processing API integration
• PowerShell Windows-based automation (if applicable)

Automation / IaC

• Terraform Infrastructure as Code
• AWS CloudFormation Native IaC
• GitHub / GitLab Version control and CI/CD

APIs / ETL

• REST / JSON API integration
• AWS SDKs (boto3 for Python) AWS automation and data extraction
• Lightweight ETL For transforming CloudWatch/Cost data into dashboards

*** Three years of continuous U.S. residency required ***

Equivalent education and/or experience will be considered.

KBR Benefits

KBR offers a selection of competitive lifestyle benefits which could include 401K plan with company match medical dental vision life insurance AD&D flexible spending account disability paid time off or flexible work schedule. We support career advancement through professional training and development.

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At KBR we are passionate about our people and our Zero Harm culture. These inform all that we do and are at the heart of our commitment to and ongoing journey toward being a People First company. That commitment is central to our team of teams philosophy and fosters an environment where everyone can Belong Connect and Grow. We Deliver Together.

KBR is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion disability sex sexual orientation gender identity or expression age national origin veteran status genetic information union status and/or beliefs or any other characteristic protected by federal state or local law.