Infrastructure Automation Engineer Intern

American Century Investments

Hours: Part time
Where: Kansas City, Missouri
Apply by: End Date: November 1, 2026
Posted: Sep 25

American Century Investments® is a leading global asset manager with over 65 years of experience helping a broad base of clients achieve their financial goals. Our expertise spans global equities and fixed income, multi-asset strategies, ETFs, and private investments.

Privately owned and independent, we focus solely on investment management. But there’s an unexpected side to us, too. We direct 40% of our dividends every year—over $2 billion since 2000—to the Stowers Institute for Medical Research. Our ongoing financial support drives the Institute’s breakthrough work and mission of defeating life-threatening diseases like cancer and Alzheimer’s. So, the better we do for our clients, the more we can do for everyone.

All who work here around the globe are inspired every day by the unique difference our hard work can make in so many lives.

What you'd do

Assist in the design, development, and deployment of automation scripts and tools to support infrastructure operations, applying software engineering principles and programming skills to build scalable, maintainable solutions.
Collaborate with team members to identify repetitive tasks and propose automation solutions.
Support monitoring and alerting systems to improve visibility into infrastructure health.
Participate in infrastructure projects involving cloud services, virtualization, networking, and server management.
Document processes, automation workflows, and technical configurations.
Learn and apply best practices in IT operations, security, and change management.
Exposure to automation and scripting tools (e.g., Ansible, Terraform, PowerShell, Python, or Bash) is a plus.

What they want

You are an incoming senior enrolled in an undergraduate program in Computer Science, Information Technology, Management Information Systems, or a related field.
Basic understanding of infrastructure components (servers, networks, virtualization, cloud platforms).
Familiarity with software development lifecycle and API’s.
Strong problem-solving skills and eagerness to learn.
Excellent communication and collaboration abilities.
Demonstrates the American Century Investments Winning Behaviors: Client Focused, Courageous and Accountable, Collaborative, Curious and Adaptable, Competitively Driven.

What you get

Competitive pay and 401k eligibility for employee contributions.
Mentor Program - during your time with us you will be assigned a dedicated mentor to provide career coaching and mentoring.
Access to our Business Resource Groups (Emerging Professionals, Pride, Mosaic, Green Team, and others.)
Casual dress code - be comfortable and express your unique self.
A robust social and philanthropic calendar of events hosted just for Interns!

Starts: 2026-09-25