Cloud Engineer Placement

About us

We employ 660 people across underwriting, claims, actuarial, IT and customer service. EMN Benefits is a property and casualty insurer writing policies in 30 states through independent agents.

About the role

Our Platform 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. We are headquartered in Columbus and have been hiring remotely since 2020. Remote internship with a team based in Columbus. The stipend is paid at the end of each month. You will need at least 4 hours of overlap with US Eastern time. Good written English matters here, since most updates are written.

Responsibilities

Patch and update Linux servers in staging before production changes. Containerise services with Docker and keep images small. Investigate failed builds and deployment issues and write a short note on the cause. Set up dashboards and alerts in Grafana, Prometheus or CloudWatch. Automate routine tasks with Bash or Python scripts. Review cloud costs each month and point out unused resources.

Requirements

Based in Cyprus for the duration of the internship. Eligible to work in Cyprus. Currently enrolled in a bachelor's or master's degree, graduating 2027. Familiarity with Git and how CI pipelines work. Comfortable with Linux: file permissions, processes, SSH and package management. Understanding of networking concepts like DNS, load balancers, ports and subnets. Laptop with at least 8 GB RAM (16 GB preferred) and a reliable internet connection.

What you'll learn

Certificate, recommendation letter and a possible full-time offer. Infrastructure as code with Terraform on live AWS accounts. Debugging failed deploys and reading logs under some time pressure. How a real deployment pipeline, monitoring stack and on-call rotation fit together.

Duration: 3 months

Start date: Dec 2026

Stipend: $2,050 to $2,450/month

What we offer

Online learning budget. Internet allowance. Letter of recommendation. Mentorship. Flexible hours. Certificate of completion.

Shortlisted candidates will hear from us within two weeks.

Duration: 3 months. Start: Dec 2026.

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