AWS Intern

We run a fiber backbone of over 20,000 route miles, plus data centres and network operations centres. Headquartered in Nantes, the company has 136,300 employees and contact centres in four locations.

About the internship:

Saltbox Telecom is hiring an AWS Intern for Immediately. Our Platform team looks after AWS accounts, Kubernetes clusters and the build pipelines for 20 or so services. The intern will help with all of it under supervision. The company is based in Nantes, France. We are a distributed team spread across a few time zones. Remote internship with a team based in Nantes. The stipend is paid at the end of each month. Core hours are 10:00 to 15:00 CET.

Your projects:

• Set up dashboards and alerts in Grafana, Prometheus or CloudWatch.
• Test backup and restore steps for databases and record the results.
• Investigate failed builds and deployment issues and write a short note on the cause.
• Rotate secrets in AWS Secrets Manager under supervision.
• Manage AWS resources such as EC2, S3, RDS and IAM roles with Terraform.
• Shadow the on-call engineer during working hours to learn incident response.
• Write and improve CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions or GitLab CI.

Who you are:

• Are able to join within 15 days.
• Are available for a full-time work from home internship for the entire duration.
• Familiarity with Git and how CI pipelines work.
• Basic scripting in Bash or Python.
• Laptop with at least 8 GB RAM (16 GB preferred) and a reliable internet connection.

Preferred qualifications:

• AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner or Solutions Architect Associate.
• Kubernetes basics, such as pods, deployments and services.

What you get out of it:

• Infrastructure as code with Terraform on live AWS accounts.
• Certificate, recommendation letter and a possible full-time offer.
• Debugging failed deploys and reading logs under some time pressure.
• How a real deployment pipeline, monitoring stack and on-call rotation fit together.

Program dates: Immediately, 6 months.

Pay: $500 to $650 per month

Benefits for interns:

• Job offer on successful completion.
• Performance bonus.
• Laptop provided for the internship.

If you are shortlisted, we will reach out to set up a first call.

Duration: 6 months. Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Saltbox Telecom SA.