Monitoring & Alerting Engineering Intern (100%)
Zurich, Switzerland
Ready to join a team of visionaries who is dedicated to solving one of humankind's greatest challenges?
Get to know Climeworks
Climeworks is a leading high-quality carbon removal provider, combining decades of expertise in Direct Air Capture (DAC) technology with a holistic approach to carbon removal solutions. Climeworks advises companies on their carbon removal strategies and provides tailored portfolios of nature-based and engineered approaches, offering end-to-end services to help achieve net-zero goals. The company runs the world's first two DAC plants in Iceland, demonstrating its core commitment to high-quality carbon removal that is backed by over 15 years of pioneering research, development, and deployment. By advancing the most reliable solutions in the market, Climeworks accelerates the global transition to net zero, unlocking economic value for businesses, governments, and society.
We foster a dynamic environment and are building a global purpose driven team. We are looking for disruptive thinkers, passionate achievers and inspiring leaders that are ready to take on the world's greatest challenge.
Will you join us?
Your mission
Job description
* End-to-End Ownership: You take ownership of a real, end-to-end project, from understanding operational needs to delivering a standardized, scalable alerting framework.
* Stakeholder Needs: You engage with different teams to identify critical monitoring requirements and analyzing which events truly require alerting versus noise reduction.
* Grafana Alerting: You build and configure alerts in Grafana based on data from PostgreSQL, defining thresholds, triggers, and escalation logic.
* Cross-Team Alignment: You collaborate across facilities and backbone teams to drive consistency and harmonization of monitoring approaches.
* Alert Communication: You create and organize Microsoft Teams alert channels aligned with the right audience and ensure alerts reach the appropriate stakeholders at the right time.
* Standardization: You develop consistent naming conventions and alert phrasing, ensuring clarity, usability, and actionable messaging.
* Data & Queries: You write and optimize SQL queries for alerting logic and work with data pipelines feeding Grafana dashboards.
Your story
Requirements
* Educational Background: You are pursuing or have recently completed (within the last year) a BSc or MSc in Computer Science, Data Engineering, IT, or a related field.
* Technical Foundation: You have basic knowledge of SQL and data analysis and are highly interested in observability, monitoring, or infrastructure systems.
* Collaboration & Communication: You have good communication skills and are comfortable working with multiple stakeholders.
* Adaptability & Creativity: You demonstrate flexibility, adaptability, and creativity, especially when working with unknown or incomplete information.
* Working Style & Ownership: You are reliable, performance-driven, maintain a structured way of working, and are proactive in driving topics independently.
* Teamwork & Independence: You thrive in fast-paced team environments and are equally effective when working independently.
* Language Skills: You are fluent in English; German is an advantage.
* Availability: You are available for a full-time 6-month internship, ideally starting in September 2026.
For complete job description and to apply, visit:
https://climeworks.com/jobs/monitoring-alerting-engineering-intern-100
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