Cloud Engineer Placement

Barleyhaven Data Systems is a small IT shop: the owner, four technicians and a part-time office manager. Dentists, insurance agents and law offices make up most of the client list. We started in 2003 and have grown to about 37 people.

About the role

We are moving older services to containers and the intern will help with the migration and the documentation. This role is fully remote within Italy. Please make sure you have a quiet place to work and a solid internet connection.

What you'll do

• Deploy and update apps on Kubernetes using Helm charts.
• Test backup and restore steps for databases and record the results.
• Shadow the on-call engineer during working hours to learn incident response.
• Set up dashboards and alerts in Grafana, Prometheus or CloudWatch.
• Rotate secrets in AWS Secrets Manager under supervision.
• Manage AWS resources such as EC2, S3, RDS and IAM roles with Terraform.

Requirements

• Currently enrolled in a bachelor's or master's degree, graduating 2027.
• Available for the full internship period.
• Based in Italy for the duration of the internship.
• Eligible to work in Italy.
• Familiarity with Git and how CI pipelines work.
• Available 30 to 40 hours a week.
• Basic scripting in Bash or Python.

Preferred

• Exposure to Nginx configuration.

What you get out of it

• How a real deployment pipeline, monitoring stack and on-call rotation fit together.
• Certificate, recommendation letter and a possible full-time offer.
• You will make infrastructure changes that go through review and reach production.
• Debugging failed deploys and reading logs under some time pressure.

Duration: 6 months

Start date: Dec 2026

Stipend: €1,000 - €1,300 monthly

Perks

• Flexible hours.
• Company laptop.
• Internet allowance.
• Letter of recommendation.
• Possibility of a full-time offer.

Duration: 6 months. Start: Dec 2026.

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