IT Infrastructure Engineer Specialist Co-Op (Fall 2026)

A good student experience is never hands-off. We are dedicated to fostering a dynamic learning environment where students actively engage in practical experiences throughout their time with us. From the beginning, students are entrusted with specific responsibilities, ensuring they play a significant role in their learning journey. As valued team members, students are also encouraged to share and implement their own ideas, enhancing both their personal growth and the collective success of the team.

Description:

• Perform setup and maintenance of IT infrastructure with guidance from senior engineers.
• Integrate multi‑vendor solutions using a vendor‑agnostic design approach.
• Monitor capacity and prepare scalability forecasts and recommendations.
• Ensure system availability, redundancy, backups, and recoverability through proactive operational processes (installations, patches, upgrades, preventative maintenance, and high‑availability design).
• Collaborate on complex technical projects within a large enterprise IT environment.
• Support long‑term planning and lifecycle requirements for infrastructure systems.
• Document system designs, configurations, lessons learned, and best practices.
• Take action based on service metrics and operational reports to ensure stability and security.
• Participate in infrastructure lifecycle management to minimize operational risk and ensure continuity.
• Work collaboratively within BMW’s global infrastructure network—including product owners, operations managers, and technical teams—to ensure global standards and procedures are followed.
• Ensure adherence to BMW Group strategy across technical decisions.
• Maintain technical security architecture, platform availability, performance, and maintenance routines.
• Provide technical direction to contractors, service providers, and internal partners.
• Support ITIL processes such as change, incident, and configuration management.
• Present infrastructure topics to both technical and non‑technical audiences.
• Negotiate project scope, schedule, and budget with stakeholders.
• Develop and analyze reports to ensure SLAs are met and operational processes are consistently followed.
• Recommend and support quality‑improvement initiatives and stay informed of emerging trends and innovations.
• Ability to translate business requirements into technical solutions.
• Passion for IT technologies and innovative digital solutions.
• Experience with Azure AD and Microsoft 365 (Teams, SharePoint, OneDrive, etc.).
• Experience with agile tools and methods.
• Strong communication, teamwork, planning, and organizational skills.
• Proficiency with MS Office, especially Excel, PowerPoint, and SharePoint.
• Self‑motivated, structured, and results‑oriented.
• Strong vendor, interface, and process‑management skills.
• Foundational knowledge of cloud architecture, network operations, databases, programming, data analytics, enterprise IT, and/or end‑user device deployments.

Qualifications:

• Possess a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.0 (not just in major)
• Have enrolled student status at an accredited four-year college or university in the United States.
• Completed at least 30 credit hours at time of application.
• Ability to work full-time on-site (40 hours / week).
• Transfer students must have a GPA from current university.
• MUST ATTACH A COPY OF UNOFFICIAL TRANSCRIPT
• Complete and pass a substance abuse test before the work term.
• THE WORK TERM DATES ARE August 10th – December 11th, 2026.
• Must be an enrolled student during all three rotations.  

BMW Manufacturing Company is an equal opportunity employer. It is the policy of BMW MC to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all qualified persons regardless of age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status.