Cloud Engineering Intern

About us

We run one of the larger SaaS platforms for commercial insurance carriers, processing millions of policy transactions a year. Our engineering group is split into roughly 60 product teams, each owning its services end to end, with on-call shared across time zones. Founded in 1997, we now have 1,300 employees. Laptops are MacBook Pros, and you pick your own editor.

Overview

Remote internship for a student who enjoys Linux, scripting and figuring out why a build broke. You can work from home anywhere in the US. We have no office requirement. Normal working hours, Monday to Friday. Please make sure you have a quiet place to work and a solid internet connection.

Responsibilities

• Write and improve CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions or GitLab CI
• Shadow the on-call engineer during working hours to learn incident response
• Set up dashboards and alerts in Grafana, Prometheus or CloudWatch
• Investigate failed builds and deployment issues and write a short note on the cause
• Review cloud costs each month and point out unused resources
• Document runbooks for common incidents in Confluence
• Manage AWS resources such as EC2, S3, RDS and IAM roles with Terraform

Requirements

• Based in the US for the duration of the internship
• Available 40 hours a week for the full internship
• Familiarity with Git and how CI pipelines work
• Hands-on practice with Docker, even on personal projects
• Some exposure to AWS, Azure or GCP through a free tier account or course

Nice to have

• A home lab or personal project with a working CI/CD pipeline
• AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner or Solutions Architect Associate
• Knowledge of monitoring tools like Grafana or Datadog

Duration: 12 weeks

Start date: Immediately

Stipend: $45.50 - $50.00 per hour

Perks

• Mentorship from a dedicated buddy and manager
• Return offer opportunities
• Paid sick time
• Learning and development stipend
• Final presentation to leadership

Duration: 12 weeks. Start: Immediately.

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