Cloud Computing Intern (Work From Home)

Advertising, subscriptions and transaction fees each bring in a significant share of revenue. More than 1,300 employees work on the product, from search ranking to fraud detection. Support shifts are shared, so engineers spend a few hours a quarter answering customer tickets.

THE PROGRAM:

Prairiemark is hiring a Cloud Computing Intern for Jan 2027. We are moving older services to containers and the intern will help with the migration and the documentation. The internship is fully remote. Interns join our Indianapolis team on daily calls and get a named mentor. Core hours are 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM US Eastern. A stable internet connection and a backup power option are required.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Review cloud costs each month and point out unused resources
• Write and improve CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions or GitLab CI
• 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
• 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

WHO YOU ARE:

• Are able to join within 15 days
• Own a laptop and have stable internet at home
• Careful with production systems. You must follow change procedures exactly
• Comfortable with Linux: file permissions, processes, SSH and package management
• Laptop with at least 8 GB RAM (16 GB preferred) and a reliable internet connection
• Pursuing B.Tech, BE, BCA, MCA, BSCS or a related degree, graduating in between December 2027 and June 2028

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Experience with Terraform or Ansible
• Exposure to Nginx configuration
• Knowledge of monitoring tools like Grafana or Datadog

WHAT YOU'LL LEARN:

• How a real deployment pipeline, monitoring stack and on-call rotation fit together
• Support towards an AWS certification, with the exam fee covered for strong interns
• Debugging failed deploys and reading logs under some time pressure
• Infrastructure as code with Terraform on live AWS accounts

Program dates: Jan 2027, 3 months.

Intern pay: ₹48,000 to ₹67,000 monthly

PERKS:

• Performance bonus
• Pre-placement offer (PPO) for strong performers
• Free access to paid learning courses
• Mentorship from senior team members
• Laptop provided for the internship
• Certificate

Duration: 3 months. Start: Jan 2027.

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