Job Summary

CenturyLink’s internship program is a 10 week, fast-paced and exciting opportunity to gain professional experience within your field of study and career interest. Interns within North America Operations will be part of an accelerated learning experience, to challenge skills learned in the classroom and develop new skills while working on active CenturyLink work projects. The internship will take place in Tempe, AZ. Our mission is to transform traditional tiered engineering support into an Automation team supporting Transformational Tool development and Automated Systems to achieve less human intervention as the Network grows. In addition, interns will connect to our company culture through community outreach projects, engage with our employee resource groups and be able to develop their professional skills and business acumen through frequent exposure to senior leadership, cutting-edge technology, groundbreaking projects, and a network of mentors and fellow interns. Come Intern with us and create the beginnings of a career right for YOU!

Job Description

• Work closely with the Network Transformation organization individually or in collaborative teams to design, develop, and deliver various application tools and scripts for clients throughout the CenturyLink organization.
• Work in a Network Operations environment amongst network engineers with a goal of optimizing troubleshooting procedures and expanding technician capabilities via automation and tools.
• Prepare and deploy network configuration changes to support audits and other projects promoting network cleanliness.
• Effectively manage and deliver multiple projects to operational stability.
• Communicate with all stakeholders throughout a project to gain clarification of requirements, provide project status, identify gaps, identify issues, discuss schedules.
• Effectively estimate the time it will take for themselves and others to perform tasks and are able to influence the team's work to be completed within those timeframes.
• Support existing applications and procedures.
• Write documentation to support applications and processes.

Minimum Requirements:

• Pursing a Bachelor's or Master’s degree in an IT-related degree program such as CIS or Computer Science
• Enrolled at a 4-year accredited college or university; as junior, senior or master’s level education status at the start of the internship (graduating after August 2020).
• Minimum Cumulative GPA: 3.0 or higher
• Must have transportation to/from work daily
• Must be available to work 30 – 40 hours, during the specified 10-week timeframe
• Familiarity with L2/L3 networking protocols and concepts such as MPLS, BGP, 802.1q, and TCP/IP.
• Familiarity with router hardware and configuration, such as Cisco, Juniper, or Nokia.
• Experience with scripting languages such as Python or Perl.
• Experience working in Windows and Unix environments, including file structures, grep, and basic shell scripting.
• Experience with Object-oriented language (OOL) including Java and framework such as Spring/Django.
• Familiarity with Agile practices.
• Familiarity with version control tools such as Git.
• Familiarity with databases such as MySQL and Oracle.
• Familiarity with IDEs such as Eclipse/Netbeans.
• Strong sense of urgency and ability to meet deadlines.
• Quick learner and not afraid to work with new technology.

Lumen is a global company of approximately 38,000 professionals dedicated to unleashing the world's digital potential. Lumen frees businesses from the legacy communication experiences holding them back today by making IT environments more user-friendly and intuitive. Our experience-first approach to networking, edge cloud and cybersecurity connects people, data and apps―quickly, securely and effortlessly. We ignite business growth and accelerate innovation for 8 of the 10 most valuable brands in the world.