Many positions provide an excellent learning opportunity for students who may be new to working within an IT setting. Most jobs will provide training for new staff around technical concepts, troubleshooting strategies, and customer service skills that they will need in the position. We encourage applicants who may have limited IT experience, but who are eager to grow, to apply!
There are between 300-350 student jobs across the many IT units/organizations on campus, including but not limited to:
- Business services support
- Desktop consulting
- Desktop engineering
- Helpdesk support
- Information management and workflow
- Information security
- IT client services
- Network engineering
- Outreach and engagement
- Product management
- Student technology consulting
- Visual communications
- Web design
- Windows system administration
- Wireless support
Job postings can occur at any time. We recommend checking this page periodically, Handshake, and following Student Tech Services on Instagram / Facebook for updates (fb.com/studenttechservices).
Questions about student jobs across campus technology? Contact the One IT Student Leadership Program at one-it-student-leadership@berkeley.edu.
Did you know? 10% of professional staff across campus IT are Cal alumni! Learn more about the One IT Student Leadership Program and our efforts to foster career advancement pathways for Berkeley students to become Berkeley staff.
IT Client Services Student Technician
Are you interested in technology and learning IT skills and concepts? Would you like to meet and work with UC Berkeley’s staff and faculty? Join us! Get paid to learn IT support skills and concepts. Then provide IT services to UC Berkeley staff and faculty. You’ll work in UC Berkeley’s IT Client Services (ITCS) department, which provides direct technical support to UC Berkeley staff and faculty. Benefits include: a ~100-hour program of technical training and project leadership opportunities. No previous technical experience is necessary.
D-Lab Undergraduate Technician
Become a UTech for the D-Lab Frontdesk!D-Lab is hiring 4 more undergraduate students for the academic year! We need you if: you are service- and detail-oriented; you are a student who is interested in helping students; you like to be asked questions and look for answers. The UTech role serves as a first point of contact for the wider campus community for accessing D-Lab services which support data, data science, workshops, consulting, and research.
Network Engineering Assistant
Department: Berkeley IT Network Services
The Berkeley IT Network Services team is responsible for implementing and supporting data networking services for the UC Berkeley Campus. Network Engineering Assistants are responsible for implementing basic user service requests, network configuration to support those services, surveying network locations on campus and basic physical tasks required to implement service. This is a role which provides excellent experience in the area of IT Operations and includes a significant customer service component. Previous members of the Network Engineering Assistant team have gone on to successful careers at Lawrence Berkeley Labs and major tech companies. All necessary training to perform the work is provided, only a basic understanding of technology concepts and computer systems is necessary.
Student Technology Council
Serving on the Student Technology Council is a non-paid but rewarding opportunity to influence the student experience as part of an advisory board for the campus Chief Information Officer and senior IT leadership, who listen closely to the input you provide on behalf of your peers, and utilize that information to shape campus IT services to better meet students' needs. Graduate, professional school, transfer and four-year undergraduates are all welcome!
Previous coursework and/or academic fields/majors related to technology is not a requirement - just an interest in improving the student technology experience. Meetings are three times per semester on Tuesdays from 5:30-7:00pm. Learn more about the Student Tech Council and consider applying (deadline: September 9, 2024)!
Contact: Cristóbal Olivares (cmo@berkeley.edu)
IT Technician Assistant
Department: Office of Lab Animal Care
Explore a career in information systems technology while supporting animal care staff at UC Berkeley! This position provides excellent learning and growth opportunities in IT user experience, information systems technology, customer service, and desktop support (hardware and software). Support technicians and OLAC staff with animal management systems.
IT Infrastructure Assistant
Department: International Computer Science Institute (ICSI)
ICSI seeks a student assistant to help develop IT systems automation tooling, in a devops model, for research computing infrastructure as well as general IT systems. The student assistant will work under the direction of ICSI's IT Manager, alongside ICSI's System Administrator, ICSI researchers, and other relevant personnel. This position will cover the 2024-2025 academic year.
Relevant tasks may include:
- Writing Terraform and/or CloudFormation scripts for automated systems deployment in an infrastructure-as-code model
- Deploying automation using Github Actions
- Writing shell or Python scripts to monitor and/or automatically remediate issues with GPU-intensive research computing
- Contributing to IAM tooling used for account and permissions privilege management, monitoring, and enforcement
Required:
- Practical working knowledge of Python and/or bash shell scripting
- A positive, solutions-oriented attitude
- Excellent written communications skills
This position requires work-study; apply on the work-study site. If you have any questions, please email Graham Freeman at graham@icsi.berkeley.edu.
Apply at https://workstudy.berkeley.edu/JobRequestForm.aspx?job_num=8311338311
First review of applications: Wednesday, August 14