From The Marzetti Company’s careers page.
Overview
Marzetti is seeking a Cloud Integration Engineering Intern to join our 2027 Summer Internship Program!
Still in school but ready to start building your career? The Marzetti Summer Internship Program gives ambitious students the opportunity to gain meaningful, hands-on experience while exploring where their career could take them after graduation.
Our internship program is designed to provide real-world experience aligned with your field of interest while also giving you exposure to other key areas of the business. You’ll contribute to meaningful work, build valuable relationships, and develop skills that extend far beyond your resume.
Responsibilities
Nourish Your Career
Over the course of our 12-week program, our interns will gain:
- Practical Experience: Take ownership of meaningful engineering deliverables and gain hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure, event-driven integration, APIs, messaging, and automated workflows while contributing to a real-world enterprise technology initiative.
- Technical Development: Build practical skills in cloud engineering, software development, event-driven architecture, enterprise integration, testing, troubleshooting, monitoring, and technical documentation while receiving guidance and mentorship from experienced technology professionals.
- Cross-Functional Exposure: Collaborate with professionals across IT Engineering, Enterprise Architecture, application and business systems teams, and other areas of the organization to understand how technology solutions support broader business objectives.
- Professional Development: Develop your professional network by connecting with colleagues, managers, and fellow interns through project collaboration, social activities, volunteer opportunities, and development sessions with company leadership.
- Communication & Leadership: Develop experience communicating technical concepts, participating in design discussions and solution reviews, and presenting project outcomes and recommendations to IT leaders and stakeholders.
- Career Advancement: Potential for part-time and full-time employment based on performance and the company's future needs.
Essential Functions/Primary Responsibilities:
- Participate in the design and development of event-driven integration solutions using Microsoft Azure technologies.
- Develop and configure automated workflows using Azure Logic Apps and related Azure services.
- Work with REST APIs, JSON payloads, messaging, and event-driven integration patterns to connect applications and business systems.
- Gain hands-on experience with Azure messaging technologies such as Azure Service Bus and potentially other event-driven Azure services.
- Assist with the development of reusable integration patterns for message processing, error handling, retries, exception management, and monitoring.
- Develop or assist with Azure Functions or other code-based components when custom processing is required.
- Develop and execute test scenarios to validate workflows, integrations, error handling, and end-to-end solution behavior.
- Troubleshoot integration and workflow issues using Azure logging, monitoring, and diagnostic capabilities.
- Participate in technical design sessions, code and solution reviews, project meetings, and engineering discussions.
- Use source control and established software development practices to manage and document solution changes.
- Create and maintain technical documentation, solution diagrams, process flows, and implementation guidance for solutions developed during the internship.
- Coordinate and complete assigned project deliverables within established timelines while communicating progress, risks, questions, and technical challenges to the project team.
- Collaborate with IT Engineering, Enterprise Architecture, application teams, business systems teams, and other stakeholders to understand how enterprise solutions are designed and delivered.
- Prepare and deliver a final demonstration and presentation of the internship project, including the solution developed, technical approach, challenges encountered, lessons learned, and recommendations for future development.
Qualifications
Qualification Requirements:
- Currently enrolled in an accredited undergraduate program with a focus in: Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, Information Technology, or a closely related technical discipline.
- Rising senior preferred, with anticipated graduation within approximately one year following completion of the internship.
- Coursework, academic projects, personal projects, or work experience involving programming or software development.
- Familiarity with at least one general-purpose programming language such as C#, Python, Java, JavaScript, or TypeScript.
- Basic understanding of software development concepts and an interest in cloud computing, software engineering, system integration, or event-driven architecture.
- Exposure to REST APIs, HTTP, JSON, databases, or SQL through coursework or project experience is preferred.
- Experience with Microsoft Azure, Azure Logic Apps, Azure Functions, Azure Service Bus, Git/source control, or other cloud technologies is preferred but not required.
- Demonstrated problem-solving ability and the capacity to apply logical and analytical thinking when developing solutions.
- Demonstrated curiosity, initiative, and willingness to learn new technologies and engineering concepts.
- Strong communication, interpersonal, and relationship-building skills.
- Demonstrated teamwork through academic projects, extracurricular activities, internships, or work experience.
- Ability to work independently on assigned tasks while collaborating effectively as part of an engineering and project team.
- Professional, positive attitude and willingness to receive and incorporate technical feedback.
