Cloud Engineering Intern

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The internship:

Nelson Networks is hiring a DevOps intern to help with CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure and monitoring. You can work from home anywhere in the US. We have no office requirement. Normal working hours, Monday to Friday. You will need a reliable internet connection and a quiet place to work.

Responsibilities:

• Patch and update Linux servers in staging before production changes
• Set up dashboards and alerts in Grafana, Prometheus or CloudWatch
• Manage AWS resources such as EC2, S3, RDS and IAM roles with Terraform
• Test backup and restore steps for databases and record the results
• Write and improve CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions or GitLab CI
• Deploy and update apps on Kubernetes using Helm charts
• Investigate failed builds and deployment issues and write a short note on the cause

What we're looking for:

• Available 40 hours a week for the full internship
• Based in the US for the duration of the internship
• Currently enrolled in a bachelor's or master's program, graduating 2028
• Comfortable with Linux: file permissions, processes, SSH and package management
• Basic scripting in Bash or Python
• Familiarity with Git and how CI pipelines work
• Hands-on practice with Docker, even on personal projects
• Understanding of networking concepts like DNS, load balancers, ports and subnets

Nice to have:

• AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner or Solutions Architect Associate
• A home lab or personal project with a working CI/CD pipeline

What you get out of it:

• Certificate, recommendation letter and a possible full-time offer
• You will make infrastructure changes that go through review and reach production
• Infrastructure as code with Terraform on live AWS accounts

Duration: 6 months

Start date: Jan 2027

Stipend: $38.00 - $51.50/hr

What we offer:

• Intern events and speaker sessions (virtual)
• Final presentation to leadership
• Mentorship from a dedicated buddy and manager
• Learning and development stipend
• Paid sick time
• Company laptop

We review applications on a rolling basis.

Duration: 6 months. Start: Jan 2027.

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