At Canadian Solar, our vision is to make lives better by bringing electricity powered by the sun to millions of people worldwide. As a leading manufacturer of solar panels, inverters, and energy storage solutions, we've been an industry front-runner since our founding in 2001. Our commitment to sustainability is reflected in all parts of our organization as we navigate the complexities of a booming industry.
Throughout Canadian Solar's subsidiaries, e-Storage, Recurrent Energy, MSS and CSI Solar Co., we invest in our employees' growth. Our training programs and promotional opportunities ensure we all can continue to learn. We understand the importance of work-life balance and provide various flexible work options to support our employees' well-being. Join our team to "Make the Difference" by creating a lasting positive impact on the world and the communities where we operate.
Position Title: DevOps / DevSecOps Intern
Department: EQS
Compensation: Unpaid Internship
Location: Canada or United States
About the Role:
We are looking for a curious, hands-on DevOps / DevSecOps Intern to join our engineering team. This is a high-impact opportunity to work in a fast-paced, cloud-native environment using industry-standard tools such as Jenkins, AWS, Docker, and Bitbucket. You will help streamline CI/CD pipelines, strengthen our security posture alongside the cybersecurity team, and gain real-world experience building and maintaining scalable, automated infrastructure. You will collaborate with experienced engineers through Jira, Confluence, and Bitbucket, applying agile best practices end-to-end.
Responsibilities:
- DevOps Responsibilities
- Assist in developing, maintaining, and optimizing Jenkins CI/CD pipelines.
- Support containerization and orchestration workflows using Docker.
- Help manage cloud infrastructure on AWS (EC2, S3, IAM, CloudWatch, etc.).
- Automate routine operational tasks using Bash, Python, or similar scripting languages.
- Collaborate with developers in Bitbucket for version control, branching strategy, and code reviews.
- Track tasks, sprints, and release progress in Jira.
- Document workflows, runbooks, configurations, and best practices in Confluence.
- Troubleshoot deployment issues and contribute to system monitoring and alerting.
- Participate in daily stand-ups, retrospectives, and DevOps planning sessions.
- DevSecOps Responsibilities
- Integrate security scanning tools (SAST, DAST, SCA, secret scanning) into Jenkins pipelines.
- Help triage vulnerability findings and track remediation through Jira with the cybersecurity team.
- Assist in hardening Docker images and AWS configurations against CIS and OWASP benchmarks.
- Support IAM least-privilege reviews, key rotation, and access auditing on AWS.
- Contribute to security monitoring, log aggregation, and incident-response runbooks.
- Help maintain compliance evidence and documentation in Confluence for audits.
- Learn and apply DevSecOps principles such as policy-as-code, supply-chain security, and threat modeling.
Required Qualifications and Skills:
- Currently pursuing a degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Cybersecurity, or a related field.
- Familiarity with Linux / Unix systems and the command line.
- Basic understanding of cloud platforms, especially AWS.
- Exposure to Jenkins, Docker, and CI/CD concepts.
- Experience or coursework involving the Atlassian suite (Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket).
- Scripting knowledge in Bash, Python, or equivalent.
- Awareness of foundational security concepts (OWASP Top 10, secrets management, least privilege).
- Strong written and verbal communication, organization, and documentation skills.
- Eagerness to learn, take ownership, and contribute in a collaborative environment.
- Hands-on experience with Terraform, CloudFormation, or other Infrastructure-as-Code tools.
- Exposure to Kubernetes or container orchestration platforms.
- Familiarity with security tooling such as Snyk, Trivy, SonarQube, or AWS Security Hub.
- Prior internship, lab, or personal project involving CI/CD or cloud automation.
- Practical experience with modern DevOps and DevSecOps tools, workflows, and pipelines.
- Direct collaboration with cybersecurity engineers on real-world security initiatives.
- Insight into agile development practices and cloud-native infrastructure at scale.
- Mentorship from experienced DevOps, platform, and security engineers.
- Opportunity to ship meaningful contributions that improve deployment speed, reliability, and security.
e-STORAGE is Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE). Qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to age, race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, disability, or veteran status.
e-STORAGE uses AI-assisted tools during parts of the hiring process, including screening and workflow automation. All final hiring decisions are made by humans.
This is a current vacancy, and we are actively hiring for this position.
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Skills Required
- Currently pursuing a degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Cybersecurity, or related field
- Familiarity with Linux / Unix systems and the command line
- Basic understanding of cloud platforms, especially AWS
- Exposure to Jenkins, Docker, and CI/CD concepts
- Experience or coursework involving the Atlassian suite (Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket)
- Scripting knowledge in Bash, Python, or equivalent
- Awareness of foundational security concepts (OWASP Top 10, secrets management, least privilege)
- Strong written and verbal communication, organization, and documentation skills
- Eagerness to learn, take ownership, and contribute in a collaborative environment
- Hands-on experience with Terraform, CloudFormation, or other Infrastructure-as-Code tools
- Exposure to Kubernetes or container orchestration platforms
- Familiarity with security tooling such as Snyk, Trivy, SonarQube, or AWS Security Hub
- Prior internship, lab, or personal project involving CI/CD or cloud automation
What We Do
Founded in 2001 in Ontario Canada, Canadian Solar (NASDAQ: CSIQ) is as a global energy provider with successful business subsidiaries in 20 countries & regions on 6 continents. Canadian Solar is both a leading manufacturer of solar PV modules and a provider of solar energy solutions, with over 14,000 employees globally. With state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities in Canada, China, Brazil and South East Asian countries, Canadian Solar now has module manufacturing capacity and has delivered more than 55 GW of premium quality solar modules to customers in over 150 countries in the past 20 years. Canadian Solar has solar power projects globally and solar power plants that are in commercial operation, with a resale value of US$1.2 billion. In addition, Canadian Solar has a geographically diversified utility-scale solar power project pipeline around 10 GWp, with projects being developed in the U.S., Japan, Latin America,Australia, EMEA, South East Asia, India and China. Of the total project pipeline, 2.9 GWp of projects are at late-stage development and have secured energy offtake agreements. In 2018, Canadian Solar achieved a revenue of US$3.74 billion, Meanwhile, Canadian Solar was listed as the Bloomberg New Energy Finance’s Tier 1 Module Manufacturer in terms of bankability for Q4 2018, and was named as Top 3 Global Utility-scale Solar PV Project Developer for 2017 by GTM Research. Canadian Solar Founder and CEO Dr. Shawn Qu blogs as a LinkedIn Influencer at https://www.linkedin.com/in/shawnqu/. Canadian Solar is making the difference by delivering more clean, safe and affordable solar energy to the world.
