Azure Cloud Intern

About the internship

Our Site Reliability 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. Selected intern's day-to-day responsibilities include:

1. Shadow the on-call engineer during working hours to learn incident response

2. Set up dashboards and alerts in Grafana, Prometheus or CloudWatch

3. Manage AWS resources such as EC2, S3, RDS and IAM roles with Terraform.

4. Automate routine tasks with Bash or Python scripts.

5. Test backup and restore steps for databases and record the results.

6. Investigate failed builds and deployment issues and write a short note on the cause.

7. Deploy and update apps on Kubernetes using Helm charts

8. Rotate secrets in AWS Secrets Manager under supervision.

Skill(s) required: Python, Bash, AWS, Terraform, CI/CD

Who should apply

1. Available for at least 30 hours a week, work from home

2. Have their own laptop and a reliable internet connection, ideally with a UPS backup

Stipend: $350 - $450/month

Duration: 3 months

Start date: Within 2 weeks

Perks: Letter of recommendation, Internet allowance, Mentorship from senior team members, Certificate, Performance bonus, Flexible work hours

Number of openings: 10

About the company

We make a web-based inventory and purchasing system used by independent restaurants, breweries and small food manufacturers. Sawyer builds scheduling and dispatch software for field service companies, from two-truck plumbing outfits to regional HVAC contractors. Code review is required on every pull request, and nobody merges their own changes.

Duration: 3 months. Start: Within 2 weeks.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Sawyer Ltd.