Cloud Engineer Placement

Started by a former school district network admin in 1995, the business has grown almost entirely through referrals. Obando Data Systems is a small IT shop: the owner, four technicians and a part-time office manager.

Overview:

We are moving older services to containers and the intern will help with the migration and the documentation. Remote position. Most of the team is in San José, but nobody is required to come in. Normal business hours, Monday to Friday, with some flexibility.

Responsibilities:

• Review cloud costs each month and point out unused resources
• Automate routine tasks with Bash or Python scripts
• Investigate failed builds and deployment issues and write a short note on the cause
• Set up dashboards and alerts in Grafana, Prometheus or CloudWatch
• Patch and update Linux servers in staging before production changes
• Deploy and update apps on Kubernetes using Helm charts
• Rotate secrets in AWS Secrets Manager under supervision

Requirements:

• Eligible to work in Costa Rica
• Based in Costa Rica for the duration of the internship
• Currently enrolled in a bachelor's or master's degree, graduating 2026, 2027 or 2028
• Familiarity with Git and how CI pipelines work
• Available 30 to 40 hours a week
• Some exposure to AWS, Azure or GCP through a free tier account or course

Bonus points:

• Exposure to Nginx configuration
• Kubernetes basics, such as pods, deployments and services
• AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner or Solutions Architect Associate

What you'll learn:

• 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
• Infrastructure as code with Terraform on live AWS accounts

Duration: 3 months

Start date: Dec 2026

Stipend: CRC 470,000 - CRC 510,000 per month

What we offer:

• Paid public holidays
• Possibility of a full-time offer
• Internet allowance
• Flexible hours
• Certificate of completion

Please include your notice period and salary expectations.

Duration: 3 months. Start: Dec 2026.

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