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2025 Technology Summer Internship Program - Jersey City, Infrastructure

Jefferies, LLC
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Jefferies is a leading, full-service global investment banking and capital markets firm, thanks to a unique culture that attracts driven and entrepreneurial professionals from around the world. Recognized for our insights, drive and high touch service, Jefferies provides investors, companies and governments with a full range of advisory, sales and trading, research, wealth, and asset management services across all products in the Americas, Europe and Asia. Come to Jefferies and you will find a combination of long-term Jefferies partners who turned the firm into what it is today and a fast-growing team of highly talented colleagues who will help lead us to new heights in the future.

 About Information Technology

At Jefferies, the IT team is increasingly a source of revenue and competitive advantage for one of the fastest growing investment banking firms in the world. Our team of business technologists enable Jefferies’ sales, trading, research and banking colleagues to solve problems and seize opportunities with more speed and precision than ever before.  We deploy and manage the technology that keeps Jefferies running and our colleagues connected. We develop applications and tools to seamlessly serve Jefferies’ clients. We enhance business outcomes with AI and machine learning tools that uncover actionable insights from millions of data points from around the world.  We believe the strength of Jefferies always has been and always will be its people. And we believe our most important job is deploying technology to help them do their jobs better. In an industry being radically reshaped by technology, our IT team is integrated into every facet of Jefferies’ business.

Work With Us

  • An Opportunity to Explore: At Jefferies, you can go where your talents and interests take you. We want curious and creative people eager to push the boundaries of what they can do and passionate about using technology to solve problems and deliver better outcomes for our business. There are no silos, no lanes to stay in, and we don’ want people managing and executing the same narrow set of tasks each day.
  • A No Corner Office Culture: At Jefferies, you’ll find our business technologists working right alongside traders, researchers investment bankers, and sales teams. That’s how our technologists develop expertise about how trades work, how transactions are cleared, how clients are served, which data really matters, and how and why equity, fixed income and private markets move. When you join Jefferies, you will develop the financial market savvy necessary to build the platforms and the cutting edge applications that keep Jefferies one step ahead of our competitors.
  • A Chance to Unlock the Power of Big Data: Now, and in the years ahead, our businesses technologists will be leading Jefferies’ wholesale move into cloud computing. We will increasingly be building native applications in the cloud and using AI and machine learning tools to translate data into actionable insights, to automate more functions, to make Jefferies operations more secure and client service more seamless.
  • A Team of Builders and Problem Solvers: At some larger companies, the IT team’s primary role is maintaining legacy technology systems that are so sprawling and ingrained in the business that it’s difficult to transition to something new. But Jefferies is different. We’re growing fast, breaking into new markets and regions and we’re often building new technology platforms from the ground up. We have people from all across the business coming to us to answer their most mission-critical questions.  Technology is inevitably key to answer these questions. And as a business technologist, it’s up to you to deliver the right solution at exactly the right moment.

Join our Infrastructure Technology Team

As a part of Jefferies Information Technology, Summer Analysts may also be able to specialize in Infrastructure.  The Global Infrastructure organization builds and maintains the technology backbone that allows the enterprise to operate while working on innovating solutions such as Cloud Adoption and Network Resiliency.

  • The Global Infrastructure organization builds and maintains the technology backbone that allows the enterprise to operate while working on innovating solutions such as Cloud Adoption and Network Resiliency.  The key functions of the Business Unit are as follows:  Networking / Telecom / Multimedia Engineering, Windows / Desktop / Messaging Engineering, Private / Public Cloud / Database / Unix Engineering, Data Centers, IT Communications.
  • The Global Network, Telecom & Multimedia team is responsible for architecting, building, and operating the Jefferies network that interconnects Jefferies internal desktops and servers, connectivity to international exchanges, global clients, application communication, cloud services, and internet access.  They are also responsible for global telephony services, global trading hoot-and-holler IPC services, voice recording, and audio/video conferencing systems.
  • Windows / Desktop / Messaging Engineering is responsible for Jefferies Desktops, VDI, Laptop and Windows Server design architecture and engineering, Active Directory, Certificate Management, Group Policy, Infoblox (DNS), Print Services Infrastructure, Application packaging, software & OS patching, Citrix architecture design and engineering, O365 (messaging, OneDrive, Teams, SharePoint Online) architecture design and engineering, and Microsoft SharePoint design and engineering.
  • The private cloud team provides a platform that allows Jefferies to utilize shared resources for servers, storage, and disaster recovery.  The Public cloud team provides foundation services in the AWS and Azure clouds for Jefferies.  The services include product enablement, automation, operations, cost management, and on-call support covering 24 x 7.
  • The database engineering teams at Jefferies provide design, architecture, data security, auditing, and operational support to the application development teams. The server engineering teams at Jefferies provide design, architecture, deployment, and operational support to the application development teams.
  • Jefferies operates three types of Data Centers: Primary, Disaster Recovery, and Specialized CoLo facilities near exchanges/markets to reduce latency.  These Data Centers are physical locations that house core IT infrastructure and computing services such as servers, networks, storage, and other equipment that support business-critical applications, services, operations, and data.

Desired Qualifications and Skills:

  • Sponsorship for non-U.S. residents may be available
  • Pursuing an undergraduate or master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or related field
  • Must graduate between December 2025 – June 2026
  • General Skills
    • Ability to learn and adapt quickly as you collaborate with others in a fast-paced, team-oriented environment
    • Motivated candidates with a desire to pursue a Technology career in Financial Services upon graduation
    • Strong leadership and problem-solving skills
    • Excellent written/verbal communication skills
  • Technical Skills
    • Experience with Java, Python, VBA, Macro, Bash, PowerShell, SQL, and/or other scripting languages
    • Experience with Cloud Platforms (AWS; Azure)
    • Experience with Modern Virtualization, Kubernetes container management, Docker
    • Experience with network routing & switching technologies, network security protocols, wireless and understanding stateful application traffic profiles, cloud network connectivity solutions
    • Operating System experience: Linux; Windows
    • High-level understanding of Agile/DevOps ways of working; Git repository, CI/CD pipeline
    • Rest API experience
    • Experience with Data Science technologies
    • Database Knowledge desirable
      • Oracle
      • MS SQL
      • Sybase
      • Ability to build Database Queries

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The base salary for the Analyst role is $100,000 (pro-rated for the 10-week internship program). The base salary for the Associate role is $120,000 (pro-rated for the 10-week internship program).