Cloud Engineering Intern

About us

Enterprise clients outsource service desk, end-user support and data centre operations to us under multi-year contracts. Across Vienna, the company runs 14 branch offices and a central depot for hardware staging and imaging. Certification exams are paid for, and passing one comes with a raise.

Overview

Our Site Reliability team looks after AWS accounts, Kubernetes clusters and the build pipelines for 20 or so services. The intern will help with all of it under supervision. Remote, open to candidates across Austria. We send you a laptop and the accessories you need on day one.

Day to day

Patch and update Linux servers in staging before production changes. Investigate failed builds and deployment issues and write a short note on the cause. Rotate secrets in AWS Secrets Manager under supervision. Shadow the on-call engineer during working hours to learn incident response. Review cloud costs each month and point out unused resources. Deploy and update apps on Kubernetes using Helm charts. Test backup and restore steps for databases and record the results.

Who can apply

Eligible to work in Austria. Currently enrolled in a bachelor's or master's degree, graduating 2027 or 2028. Careful with production systems. You must follow change procedures exactly. Some exposure to AWS, Azure or GCP through a free tier account or course. Laptop with at least 8 GB RAM (16 GB preferred) and a reliable internet connection. Understanding of networking concepts like DNS, load balancers, ports and subnets. Comfortable with Linux: file permissions, processes, SSH and package management.

Bonus points

A home lab or personal project with a working CI/CD pipeline.

What you get out of it

You will make infrastructure changes that go through review and reach production. Debugging failed deploys and reading logs under some time pressure. Infrastructure as code with Terraform on live AWS accounts.

Duration: 5 months

Start date: Feb 2027

Stipend: €1,500 - €2,050/month

Perks

Online learning budget. Paid public holidays. Company laptop. Certificate of completion.

Duration: 5 months. Start: Feb 2027.

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