Cloud Engineering Intern

Since 2013, the company has served small towns that larger carriers skipped. Safety meetings are every Monday at 7 a.m., before trucks roll.

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. Fully remote. You can work from anywhere in the US. Normal working hours, Monday to Friday.

What you'll do

• Set up dashboards and alerts in Grafana, Prometheus or CloudWatch
• Test backup and restore steps for databases and record the results
• Review cloud costs each month and point out unused resources
• Automate routine tasks with Bash or Python scripts
• Document runbooks for common incidents in Confluence
• Investigate failed builds and deployment issues and write a short note on the cause
• Containerise services with Docker and keep images small
• Patch and update Linux servers in staging before production changes

Who can apply

• Authorized to work in the US. CPT and OPT candidates are welcome to apply
• Based in the US for the duration of the internship
• Basic scripting in Bash or Python
• Comfortable with Linux: file permissions, processes, SSH and package management
• Familiarity with Git and how CI pipelines work

Nice to have

• AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner or Solutions Architect Associate
• Exposure to Nginx configuration
• Kubernetes basics, such as pods, deployments and services

Duration: 16 weeks

Start date: Spring 2027

Stipend: $42.00 - $52.50 per hour

What we offer

• Final presentation to leadership
• Flexible hours
• Paid company holidays
• Company laptop

Start dates are flexible, usually within a few weeks of an offer.

Duration: 16 weeks. Start: Spring 2027.

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