Cloud Engineering Intern

About us:

No call center and no offshore help desk. When clients call, one of us picks up. Clients have the owner's cell number, and the owner still takes the occasional Saturday call. Founded in 1998, we now have 24 employees. Company vehicles are provided for techs who drive to client sites.

The internship:

Remote internship for a student who enjoys Linux, scripting and figuring out why a build broke. You can work from home anywhere in the US. We have no office requirement. Normal business hours, Monday to Friday, with some flexibility. We ship you a laptop and accessories before your first day.

What you'll do:

• Review cloud costs each month and point out unused resources.
• Set up dashboards and alerts in Grafana, Prometheus or CloudWatch.
• Rotate secrets in AWS Secrets Manager under supervision.
• Write and improve CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions or GitLab CI.
• Investigate failed builds and deployment issues and write a short note on the cause.
• Manage AWS resources such as EC2, S3, RDS and IAM roles with Terraform.
• Shadow the on-call engineer during working hours to learn incident response.
• Patch and update Linux servers in staging before production changes.

Requirements:

• 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 2027 or 2028.
• Authorized to work in the US. CPT and OPT candidates are welcome to apply.
• Understanding of networking concepts like DNS, load balancers, ports and subnets.
• Available 30 to 40 hours a week.
• Careful with production systems. You must follow change procedures exactly.
• Basic scripting in Bash or Python.

Duration: 12 weeks

Start date: Spring 2027

Stipend: $42.50-$51.00 per hour

Perks:

• Home office setup stipend.
• Paid sick time.
• Return offer opportunities.

We are unable to sponsor visas for this position.

Duration: 12 weeks. Start: Spring 2027.

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