Cloud Engineering Intern

Across New York, the company runs 14 branch offices and a central depot for hardware staging and imaging. Large rollouts are routine here, such as imaging 12,000 laptops for a state agency over one summer. Lunch is usually whatever is closest to the client site.

About the internship

Lilacbench is hiring a Cloud Engineering Intern for Immediately. Our Platform 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. This is a remote internship. You will work with our team in New York City, and the stipend is paid monthly in pounds. Expect to work a schedule that overlaps with US Eastern business hours until about noon ET.

Your projects

• Rotate secrets in AWS Secrets Manager under supervision
• Automate routine tasks with Bash or Python scripts
• Review cloud costs each month and point out unused resources
• Document runbooks for common incidents in Confluence
• Test backup and restore steps for databases and record the results
• Shadow the on-call engineer during working hours to learn incident response
• Deploy and update apps on Kubernetes using Helm charts
• Set up dashboards and alerts in Grafana, Prometheus or CloudWatch

What we're looking for

• Available for the full internship period
• Based in the UK for the duration of the internship
• Laptop with at least 8 GB RAM (16 GB preferred) and a reliable internet connection
• Comfortable with Linux: file permissions, processes, SSH and package management
• Basic scripting in Bash or Python

Preferred qualifications

• A home lab or personal project with a working CI/CD pipeline
• AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner or Solutions Architect Associate
• Kubernetes basics, such as pods, deployments and services

What you get out of it

• Support towards an AWS certification, with the exam fee covered for strong interns
• Debugging failed deploys and reading logs under some time pressure

Program dates: Immediately, 6 months.

Compensation: £4,000-£4,800 a month

Benefits for interns

• Graduate scheme fast-track interview
• Home working allowance
• Mentoring from an experienced team member

Duration: 6 months. Start: Immediately.

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