IT Intern (80-100%) - 12 Months

About the job

Electricity powers our lives. And we move electricity. Every day, we commit ourselves to supply security in Switzerland. On behalf of Switzerland and in collaboration with international partners, our employees ensure a powerful and reliable electricity grid.

Are you wondering how the management of an IT department works? Would you like to gain initial experience in an IT department and understand what project managers, ICT architects, data and application managers accomplish daily in a critical infrastructure? Then you are in the right place. We offer immediate insight into the IT world of a critical infrastructure. As part of a 12-month internship/trainee programme in our Solution Department, we will set individual focuses together with you.

IT Intern (80-100%) - 12 Months - 238

Ensure electricity in Switzerland

Our experts cover almost the entire spectrum of IT topics. We take time for you and select a tailored internship that matches your interests.

Below you will find some examples of fields of activity, which we can also combine if needed:

• Experience what digital transformation really means. Work shoulder to shoulder with experts in IT projects in all phases from ideation, through the minimal viable product to the final solution design and operationalisation using both traditional and agile methods.
• Understand what it takes to successfully develop, integrate and operate IT services. Work in IT service management disciplines such as lifecycle management, application management, incident management, continuous improvement, deployment processes via CI/CD, resilience engineering, monitoring/observability and cyber security. Not only in usual systems but also in highly critical and complex OT systems.
• Data is everywhere and the foundation for all information systems. To master it requires a whole range of skills. Learn the most important activities and dive deep into the world of data management, data engineering, platform engineering and machine learning.
• Look over the senior management’s shoulder and understand first-hand what leadership work means. Support the department management by creating analyses, strategic documents and presentations. Organise events and coordinate matrix teams.

This is how you make a difference

Doing is like wanting, just more intense. In this spirit, we are looking for a communicative person with an independent, precise and analytical working style, who enjoys pitching in and loves finding solutions to challenging problems. If you also bring the following, nothing stands in the way of your start with us:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in computer science or a similar technical field of study
• Knowledge of at least one programming language (preferably Java, Python or C#)
• Great interest in helping shape the transformation of the energy system
• Basic knowledge in at least one of the above-mentioned activities
• Language skills: very good German and English skills (French is an advantage)

How we inspire you

As an IT intern, you will gain a unique and comprehensive insight into the exciting and complex systems required to operate a highly critical security infrastructure. In addition, we offer you the following benefits:

• Versatile and exciting tasks in a company unique to Switzerland
• Participation in various events to get to know the departments and tasks of Swissgrid
• Networking in various interest groups such as Women@Swissgrid, Young Talents, Sustainability, Culture and much more
• Flexible working hours (42 hours per week) in a motivated team
• 25 working days of holiday plus company holidays between Christmas and New Year
• State-of-the-art working environment in close proximity to Aarau station as well as home office

About us

We want to make the operation of the country’s most critical infrastructure even safer, easier and faster. To do this, we create and operate future-oriented IT solutions hand in hand with our users. The Market Solutions department is responsible for the most important systems of network operation and thus makes a key contribution to the smooth and optimal operation of the Swiss transmission grid – today and tomorrow.

Do you want to show us what you can do? Then share your GitHub account with us in your application. We look forward to it!