Cloud Engineer Placement

Incident response is a big part of the work: ransomware recovery, business email compromise and forensic investigations. We're looking for a Cloud Engineer Placement. Our Cloud Operations 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 Brownsville and have been hiring remotely since 2020. You will intern remotely with our team in Brownsville. We have hosted remote interns from several countries before. You will need at least 4 hours of overlap with US Central time.

What you will do:

• Document runbooks for common incidents in Confluence.
• Review cloud costs each month and point out unused resources.
• Write and improve CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions or GitLab CI.
• Patch and update Linux servers in staging before production changes.
• Test backup and restore steps for databases and record the results.

Requirements:

• Eligible to work in Kenya.
• Currently enrolled in a bachelor's or master's degree, graduating 2026 or 2027.
• Available 30 to 40 hours a week.
• Laptop with at least 8 GB RAM (16 GB preferred) and a reliable internet connection.
• Familiarity with Git and how CI pipelines work.

5 months, starting immediately. Stipend: KES 63,000 to KES 78,000 per month.

Perks: Company laptop, Online learning budget, Flexible hours, Paid public holidays, Possibility of a full-time offer.

Candidates must be eligible to work in.

Duration: 5 months. Start: Immediately.

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