Cloud Engineering Intern

About us:

Customers use our TMS for quoting, tracking and invoicing. We started in 2004 and have grown to about 100 people.

Overview:

We are moving older services to containers and the intern will help with the migration and the documentation. Fully remote. You can work from anywhere in the US. Normal working hours, Monday to Friday. Communication happens mostly in Slack and short video calls.

Day to day:

• Shadow the on-call engineer during working hours to learn incident response.
• Investigate failed builds and deployment issues and write a short note on the cause.
• Document runbooks for common incidents in Confluence.
• Review cloud costs each month and point out unused resources.
• Test backup and restore steps for databases and record the results.
• Containerise services with Docker and keep images small.

Requirements:

• Based in the US for the duration of the internship.
• Available 40 hours a week for the full internship.
• Authorized to work in the US. CPT and OPT candidates are welcome to apply.
• Currently enrolled in a bachelor's or master's program, graduating between December 2027 and June 2028.
• Hands-on practice with Docker, even on personal projects.
• Available 30 to 40 hours a week.
• Basic scripting in Bash or Python.
• Comfortable with Linux: file permissions, processes, SSH and package management.

Duration: 3 months

Start date: Jan 2027

Stipend: $38.00 - $52.50 per hour

Perks:

• Flexible hours.
• Mentorship from a dedicated buddy and manager.
• Paid sick time.
• Final presentation to leadership.
• Paid company holidays.
• Return offer opportunities.

Duration: 3 months. Start: Jan 2027.

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