Cloud Engineering Intern

About KTG Data Systems:

Clients rely on us for laptop setup, Intune enrollment, backup monitoring and after-hours help when something breaks.

The internship:

KTG Data Systems is hiring a DevOps intern to help with CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure and monitoring. Remote within the US. The team meets in Chesapeake once a quarter, travel covered. Normal business hours, Monday to Friday, with some flexibility. Equipment is provided, including a laptop.

Responsibilities:

• Review cloud costs each month and point out unused resources.
• Shadow the on-call engineer during working hours to learn incident response.
• Automate routine tasks with Bash or Python scripts.
• Investigate failed builds and deployment issues and write a short note on the cause.
• Deploy and update apps on Kubernetes using Helm charts.
• Manage AWS resources such as EC2, S3, RDS and IAM roles with Terraform.
• Test backup and restore steps for databases and record the results.
• Document runbooks for common incidents in Confluence.

Who can apply:

• Available 40 hours a week for the full internship.
• Authorized to work in the US. CPT and OPT candidates are welcome to apply.
• Based in the US for the duration of the internship.
• Currently enrolled in a bachelor's or master's program, graduating 2026, 2027 or 2028.
• Understanding of networking concepts like DNS, load balancers, ports and subnets.
• Laptop with at least 8 GB RAM (16 GB preferred) and a reliable internet connection.
• Familiarity with Git and how CI pipelines work.
• Available 30 to 40 hours a week.

Preferred:

• Exposure to Nginx configuration.
• Experience with Terraform or Ansible.
• A home lab or personal project with a working CI/CD pipeline.

What you get out of it:

• Debugging failed deploys and reading logs under some time pressure.
• Certificate, recommendation letter and a possible full-time offer.

Duration: 6 months

Start date: Immediately

Stipend: $44.00 - $57.50 per hour

Perks:

• Paid sick time.
• Intern events and speaker sessions (virtual)
• Final presentation to leadership.
• Company laptop.
• Flexible hours.

We are unable to sponsor visas for this position.

Duration: 6 months. Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at KTG Data Systems, LLC.