Role Description
As an Intern at Dayforce, you’ll gain real-world experience with meaningful responsibilities, access to development programs, and the chance to collaborate globally, bringing new ideas and optimizing processes across multiple business units.
Reporting to the manager of the Developer Experience (DevX) Engineering team, you will be responsible for improving the experience of our product and development teams through advocacy, research, software development, and enablement – all driven by the needs expressed by those teams directly. We work to advise, assist, define and develop solutions to address common development team frustrations.
Development teams should have first-class assistance in delivering high quality services and solutions, and we aim to provide that expert guidance in a responsive and collaborative manner.
What you’ll get to do:
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Assist in defining, documenting, and promoting best practices within the DevX organization and the P&T engineering teams.
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Provide operational support for software delivery management tools such as GitHub (Actions/Workflows, Copilot, Repositories, Dependabot), Azure, Jira, Artifactory, Visual Studio/Code, LinearB, etc.
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Assist in building and implementing scalable and easy-to-use tooling and solutions.
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Learn from current engineers about new tools, approaches, and patterns which can reduce development team friction and reduce the time it takes to deliver a service.
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Learn how to effectively develop trusted relationships with product management, development leaders, and business stakeholders to drive continuous improvement across an organization.
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Gain familiarity with the workflow of our engineers, their points of friction, and build tools to create a more rewarding development experience.
Qualifications
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Hands-on experience in software engineering or DevOps concepts.
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Passionate about improving the development experience at Ceridian by finding the balance between standards and freedom.
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Conceptual knowledge of object-oriented design patterns and development.
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Excellent collaboration and communication skills and able to work with a distributed team.
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Understanding of Agile software delivery principles and practices.
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Active listener, able to understand the needs of the people you’re working with.
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Ability to take constructive feedback.
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Enthusiasm to tackle new and often unknown challenges.
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Ability to remain flexible in the reality of ever-changing business requirements.
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Ability to conduct and speak to technical details among other engineers.
Requirements
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Experience with C# (.NET Framework & .NET Core), Powershell, Go, and Helm (Yaml) is a plus.
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Exposure to Azure, GitHub (Including Copilot), Docker, and Kubernetes (AKS) is a plus.
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Strong cross-team and cross-department partnership and collaboration skills.
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Outstanding communication skills, verbal and written.
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Experience operating at scale in a large software enterprise is preferred.
Benefits
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Gain exposure to real-world competitive strategy in one of the fastest growing Human Capital Management technology companies.
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Develop practical skills in market intelligence, data analytics, and business storytelling.
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Contribute to projects that have a visible impact on company positioning.
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Build skills that will set you apart for a career in software marketing, product development, sales development or corporate strategy.
