Cloud Engineer Placement

Annual releases gave way to two-week sprints years ago, and the platform now handles over 200 million API calls a day. We started in 1991 and have grown to about 330 people.

The internship

Coastgate Labs is hiring a DevOps intern to help with CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure and monitoring. You can work from home anywhere in Italy. We have no office requirement.

Day to day

• Automate routine tasks with Bash or Python scripts.
• Write and improve CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions or GitLab CI.
• Set up dashboards and alerts in Grafana, Prometheus or CloudWatch.
• Document runbooks for common incidents in Confluence.
• Shadow the on-call engineer during working hours to learn incident response.
• Patch and update Linux servers in staging before production changes.

Requirements

• Currently enrolled in a bachelor's or master's degree, graduating 2027 or 2028.
• Available for the full internship period.
• Careful with production systems. You must follow change procedures exactly.
• Understanding of networking concepts like DNS, load balancers, ports and subnets.
• Some exposure to AWS, Azure or GCP through a free tier account or course.

Preferred

• Knowledge of monitoring tools like Grafana or Datadog.
• AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner or Solutions Architect Associate.

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.
• Support towards an AWS certification, with the exam fee covered for strong interns.

Duration: 6 months

Start date: Feb 2027

Stipend: €1,100 - €1,150 monthly

Perks

• Certificate of completion.
• Company laptop.
• Possibility of a full-time offer.
• Flexible hours.
• Online learning budget.
• Internet allowance.

We review applications as they come in.

Duration: 6 months. Start: Feb 2027.

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