Cloud Engineer Placement

About EA Supply

Since 2011, the company has distributed building materials across KwaZulu-Natal. The industrial division stocks bearings, belts and power transmission parts. Founded in 2011, we now have 130 employees. Saturday mornings rotate across branch staff.

About the role

Remote internship for a student who enjoys Linux, scripting and figuring out why a build broke. You can work from home anywhere in South Africa. We have no office requirement.

Responsibilities

• Shadow the on-call engineer during working hours to learn incident response.
• Manage AWS resources such as EC2, S3, RDS and IAM roles with Terraform.
• Write and improve CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions or GitLab CI.
• Set up dashboards and alerts in Grafana, Prometheus or CloudWatch.
• Patch and update Linux servers in staging before production changes.
• Automate routine tasks with Bash or Python scripts.
• Rotate secrets in AWS Secrets Manager under supervision.
• Containerise services with Docker and keep images small.

Requirements

• Currently enrolled in a bachelor's or master's degree, graduating 2027 or 2028.
• Eligible to work in South Africa.
• Understanding of networking concepts like DNS, load balancers, ports and subnets.
• Basic scripting in Bash or Python.
• Some exposure to AWS, Azure or GCP through a free tier account or course.
• Familiarity with Git and how CI pipelines work.

Duration: 6 months

Start date: Mar 2027

Stipend: R21,000 - R22,000 per month

Perks

• Mentorship.
• Letter of recommendation.
• Online learning budget.

Please submit your CV in English.

Duration: 6 months. Start: Mar 2027.

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