Technical Operations Internship (m/f/d)

Your Role

As an Operations Intern (m/f/d) at our Zurich data center, you’ll support our team by contributing to process improvements, documentation updates, and cross-functional collaboration. You’ll take part in projects to enhance operational efficiency, assist with audit preparations, and support sustainability efforts such as tracking energy usage.

You’ll also be involved in team activities like safety drills, retrospectives, and onboarding support for new colleagues. By working closely with departments like IT and security, you’ll gain valuable insight into data center operations and help document learnings and feedback to improve our tools and processes.

This internship is ideal for proactive learners who want to gain hands-on experience in a critical infrastructure environment.

Your Profile

• Currently pursuing or recently completed a degree in Engineering, Facility Management, IT, or another technical discipline
• Strong attention to detail and willingness to follow established processes and safety standards
• Interest in data center operations, critical systems, and infrastructure technologies
• Communicative and collaborative, with working knowledge of English; German is a plus
• Eligible to work full-time for up to 12 months in Switzerland with a flexible working capacity (80%–100%).
• Motivated to learn, contribute, and grow in a fast-paced, high-responsibility environment

A bit about us 

Digital Realty brings companies and data together by delivering the full spectrum of data center, colocation and interconnection solutions. PlatformDIGITAL®, the company's global data center platform, provides customers with a secure data meeting place and a proven Pervasive Datacenter Architecture (PDx™) solution methodology for powering innovation and efficiently managing Data Gravity challenges. Digital Realty gives its customers access to the connected data communities that matter to them with a global data center footprint of 300+ facilities in 50+ metros across 28 countries on six continents. To learn more about Digital Realty, please visit digitalrealty.com or follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter. 

What we can offer

Our rapidly evolving business sector offers the opportunity to be part of a courageous and passionate team who work together to understand and meet the changing needs of our global customers. Join us and you’ll be part of a supportive and inclusive environment where you can bring your whole self to work. As part of our team, you’ll get to work with people from different business areas, challenge the way we do things and put your ideas into action. We’ll also give you plenty of development opportunities so you can build a rewarding and successful career with us. This is an exciting time to join our business so apply now and make your mark on our future.