Cloud Engineer Placement

We partner with universities to run online degree programs, from course production to enrolment support. Since 1998, the platform has grown to more than 5,000 corporate customers. Deadlines cluster at the end of the quarter when clients spend their budgets.

The internship

Wheatside is hiring a DevOps intern to help with CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure and monitoring. Remote, open to candidates across Chile. We talk mostly in Slack and hop on quick calls when something needs discussing.

Day to day

• Review cloud costs each month and point out unused resources
• Deploy and update apps on Kubernetes using Helm charts
• Write and improve CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions or GitLab CI
• Rotate secrets in AWS Secrets Manager under supervision
• Patch and update Linux servers in staging before production changes
• Set up dashboards and alerts in Grafana, Prometheus or CloudWatch
• Automate routine tasks with Bash or Python scripts
• Shadow the on-call engineer during working hours to learn incident response

Who can apply

• Available for the full internship period
• Currently enrolled in a bachelor's or master's degree, graduating 2026 or 2027
• Eligible to work in Chile
• Understanding of networking concepts like DNS, load balancers, ports and subnets
• Careful with production systems. You must follow change procedures exactly
• Available 30 to 40 hours a week
• Comfortable with Linux: file permissions, processes, SSH and package management
• Hands-on practice with Docker, even on personal projects

Preferred

• A home lab or personal project with a working CI/CD pipeline

What you'll learn

• Support towards an AWS certification, with the exam fee covered for strong interns
• Infrastructure as code with Terraform on live AWS accounts

Duration: 4 months

Start date: Immediately

Stipend: CLP 1,000,000 to CLP 1,250,000/month

What we offer

• Flexible hours
• Paid public holidays
• Certificate of completion
• Internet allowance
• Company laptop

Duration: 4 months. Start: Immediately.

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