Cloud Engineering Intern

Since 1952, the agency has supplied office and administrative temps to businesses in Wisconsin.

About the role:

Remote internship for a student who enjoys Linux, scripting and figuring out why a build broke. Remote, open to candidates across the US. Flexible schedule. We have one team call a day, usually in the morning. We use Slack, Notion and Google Meet. Cameras on for team calls.

Day to day:

• Set up dashboards and alerts in Grafana, Prometheus or CloudWatch
• 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
• Test backup and restore steps for databases and record the results

What we're looking for:

• Based in the US for the duration of the internship
• Currently enrolled in a bachelor's or master's program, graduating 2028
• Authorized to work in the US. CPT and OPT candidates are welcome to apply
• Available 40 hours a week for the full internship
• Comfortable with Linux: file permissions, processes, SSH and package management
• Available 30 to 40 hours a week
• Basic scripting in Bash or Python
• Careful with production systems. You must follow change procedures exactly
• Understanding of networking concepts like DNS, load balancers, ports and subnets

Bonus points:

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

What you get out of it:

• How a real deployment pipeline, monitoring stack and on-call rotation fit together
• Infrastructure as code with Terraform on live AWS accounts
• Certificate, recommendation letter and a possible full-time offer

Duration: 6 months

Start date: Jan 2027

Stipend: $44.50 to $49.00 per hour

Perks:

• Flexible hours
• Home office setup stipend
• Intern events and speaker sessions (virtual)

Duration: 6 months. Start: Jan 2027.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Highland Employment Services Inc..