Cloud Engineering Intern

About Peak IT:

Most work comes in through ConnectWise tickets, with a dispatch board for onsite visits. Dell, HP and Lenovo hardware is sold and supported for schools and local governments, as it has been since 2016.

Overview:

This is a hands-on infrastructure role. You will write Terraform, Dockerfiles and GitHub Actions workflows that go through review. Remote within the UK. The team meets in Brighton once a quarter, travel covered. You will write a lot of updates, so clear written English is important.

Day to day:

• Document runbooks for common incidents in Confluence
• Write and improve CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions or GitLab CI
• Shadow the on-call engineer during working hours to learn incident response
• Containerise services with Docker and keep images small
• Patch and update Linux servers in staging before production changes
• Rotate secrets in AWS Secrets Manager under supervision
• Set up dashboards and alerts in Grafana, Prometheus or CloudWatch
• Investigate failed builds and deployment issues and write a short note on the cause

What we're looking for:

• Available for the full internship period
• Eligible to work in the UK
• Currently enrolled in a bachelor's or master's degree, graduating 2028
• Based in the UK for the duration of the internship
• Hands-on practice with Docker, even on personal projects
• Understanding of networking concepts like DNS, load balancers, ports and subnets
• Available 30 to 40 hours a week
• Laptop with at least 8 GB RAM (16 GB preferred) and a reliable internet connection
• Careful with production systems. You must follow change procedures exactly

Bonus points:

• A home lab or personal project with a working CI/CD pipeline
• Experience with Terraform or Ansible

Duration: 6 months

Start date: Mar 2027

Stipend: £2,050 - £2,250 a month

Perks:

• Reference on completion
• Mentoring from an experienced team member
• Access to online training
• Laptop provided
• Paid holiday accrued during the placement

Successful applicants will be contacted within a week of the closing date.

Duration: 6 months. Start: Mar 2027.

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