What are the responsibilities and job description for the Platform Infrastructure - Summer 2026 Intern position at iCapital?
Join the fintech powerhouse redefining how the world invests in private markets. iCapital is a global leader in alternative investments, trusted by financial advisors, wealth managers, asset managers, and industry innovators worldwide. With $999.73 billion in assets serviced globally—including $272.1 billion in alternative platform assets—we empower over 3,000 wealth management firms and 118,000 financial professionals to deliver cutting-edge alternative investment solutions.
This summer, become part of a dynamic team where your ideas matter. Make a meaningful impact, accelerate your professional growth, and help push the boundaries of what’s possible at the intersection of technology and finance.
Key Features Of Our Summer 2026 Internship
iCapital’s Technology department includes multiple teams dedicated to creating an industry-leading platform that manages the full life cycle of alternative investments. The Platform Infrastructure team delivers and manages highly available, extremely automated deployment systems within a cloud architecture with an infrastructure-as-code philosophy. The team consists of three subgroups, Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps Engineering and Cloud Architecture. These teams manage several Kubernetes clusters and a host of interconnected services across several AWS regions.
ICapital In The Press
We are innovating at the intersection of technology and investment opportunity, but don’t take our word for it. Here’s what others are saying about us:
iCapital is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.
This summer, become part of a dynamic team where your ideas matter. Make a meaningful impact, accelerate your professional growth, and help push the boundaries of what’s possible at the intersection of technology and finance.
Key Features Of Our Summer 2026 Internship
- Become a key member of the iCapital team, driving initiatives, contributing to projects, and potentially jumpstart your career with us after graduation.
- Immerse yourself in an inclusive company culture where we create a sense of belonging for everyone.
- Gain exclusive access to the AltsEdge Certificate Program, our award-winning alternative investments education curriculum for wealth managers.
- Attend recurring iLearn seminars and platform demos where you will learn the latest about our products.
- Participate in an intern team project, culminating in an end-of-summer presentation to a panel of senior executives.
- Join senior executive speaker seminars that provide career development, guidance, and access to the leaders at iCapital.
iCapital’s Technology department includes multiple teams dedicated to creating an industry-leading platform that manages the full life cycle of alternative investments. The Platform Infrastructure team delivers and manages highly available, extremely automated deployment systems within a cloud architecture with an infrastructure-as-code philosophy. The team consists of three subgroups, Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps Engineering and Cloud Architecture. These teams manage several Kubernetes clusters and a host of interconnected services across several AWS regions.
- Work closely with the Engineering team to help design and onboard new services and craft their deployment strategy within GitLab as we deploy to EKS, Lambda and ECS.
- Assist with operational support of the cloud architectures, such as helping troubleshoot pipeline issues, examining a slow API response time using our existing tooling, or logging into a container within a pod to understand why the service hasn’t started.
- Write Terraform code to add or modify some critical infrastructure components, such as adding new services or modifying application permissions to access them.
- Work with data engineers to help modify or create a data pipeline as part of MLOps activities.
- Help with proof of concept for a new DevOps or SRE tool to streamline or advance visibility into the environment.
- Help construct and improve an entire infrastructure in a new AWS region.
- Highly inquisitive, collaborative, and a creative problem solver
- Possess foundational knowledge of and/or genuine interest in the financial markets
- Able to thrive in a fast-paced environment
- Able to adapt to new responsibilities and manage competing priorities
- Technologically proficient in Microsoft Office (Excel, PowerPoint)
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Outings with iCapital team members and fellow interns to build connections and grow your network.
- Corporate culture and volunteer activities in support of the communities where we live and work.
- Rooftop Happy Hours showcasing our impressive views of NYC.
- A rising junior or senior in a U.S. college/university bachelor’s degree program
- Must be available to work the duration of the program from June 8th through August 7th to be eligible
- Committed to working five days a week in the New York City office for the entire duration of the internship
- Authorized to work in the United States*
- We are unable to offer any type of employment-based immigration sponsorship for this program
ICapital In The Press
We are innovating at the intersection of technology and investment opportunity, but don’t take our word for it. Here’s what others are saying about us:
- Two consecutive years on the CNBC World’s Top Fintech Companies list
- Two consecutive years listed in Top 100 Fastest Growing Financial Services Companies
- Four-time winner of the Money Management Institute/Barron’s Solutions Provider of the Year
iCapital is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.
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