Cloud Engineering Intern

About Coastfold Digital

Everyone has access to the analytics dashboard, and weekly numbers are posted in Slack. The founders built the first version of the site in 1997 on nights and weekends.

Overview

Coastfold Digital is hiring a DevOps intern to help with CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure and monitoring. Remote within the US. The team meets in Miami once a quarter, travel covered. Normal working hours, Monday to Friday. Strong written English is important, since much of our work is async.

Responsibilities

• Document runbooks for common incidents in Confluence
• Write and improve CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions or GitLab CI
• Review cloud costs each month and point out unused resources
• Patch and update Linux servers in staging before production changes
• Deploy and update apps on Kubernetes using Helm charts
• Investigate failed builds and deployment issues and write a short note on the cause

Requirements

• Authorized to work in the US. CPT and OPT candidates are welcome to apply
• Available 40 hours a week for the full internship
• Based in the US for the duration of the internship
• Understanding of networking concepts like DNS, load balancers, ports and subnets
• Some exposure to AWS, Azure or GCP through a free tier account or course
• Familiarity with Git and how CI pipelines work
• Hands-on practice with Docker, even on personal projects
• Comfortable with Linux: file permissions, processes, SSH and package management

Preferred

• Kubernetes basics, such as pods, deployments and services
• Exposure to Nginx configuration

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: 10-12 weeks

Start date: Summer 2027

Stipend: $41.50 - $54.00 an hour

Perks

• Paid company holidays
• Learning and development stipend
• Return offer opportunities
• Mentorship from a dedicated buddy and manager

Duration: 10-12 weeks. Start: Summer 2027.

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