Cloud Engineering Intern

About Hickoryloft:

Dell, HP and Lenovo hardware is sold and supported for schools and local governments, as it has been since 2010. Typical projects include office moves, server migrations to Azure, and replacing aging switches and access points. Company vehicles are provided for techs who drive to client sites.

Overview:

Hickoryloft is hiring a DevOps intern to help with CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure and monitoring. Fully remote. You can work from anywhere in Canada. Normal business hours, Monday to Friday, with some flexibility.

Responsibilities:

• Patch and update Linux servers in staging before production changes
• Write and improve CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions or GitLab CI
• Document runbooks for common incidents in Confluence
• Investigate failed builds and deployment issues and write a short note on the cause
• Review cloud costs each month and point out unused resources
• Shadow the on-call engineer during working hours to learn incident response

What we're looking for:

• Based in Canada for the duration of the internship
• Currently enrolled in a bachelor's or master's degree, graduating between December 2027 and June 2028
• Eligible to work in Canada
• Hands-on practice with Docker, even on personal projects
• Available 30 to 40 hours a week
• Familiarity with Git and how CI pipelines work
• Some exposure to AWS, Azure or GCP through a free tier account or course

Bonus points:

• Knowledge of monitoring tools like Grafana or Datadog
• Exposure to Nginx configuration
• Kubernetes basics, such as pods, deployments and services

What you'll learn:

• Support towards an AWS certification, with the exam fee covered for strong interns
• How a real deployment pipeline, monitoring stack and on-call rotation fit together
• Debugging failed deploys and reading logs under some time pressure
• You will make infrastructure changes that go through review and reach production

Duration: 6 months

Start date: Feb 2027

Stipend: $24.50 - $30.00/hr

Perks:

• Learning and development stipend
• Return offer opportunities
• Company laptop
• Mentorship from a dedicated buddy and manager

Interview process: a phone call, a meeting with the hiring manager, and a final conversation with the team.

Duration: 6 months. Start: Feb 2027.

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