Cloud Engineering Intern - Remote

Our lending business funds equipment, vehicles and working capital for small and mid-sized companies across the US. Regulatory oversight is constant, and the compliance department is one of the largest in the company. Founded in 1959, we now have 68,500 employees.

Internship overview:

KF Advisors is hiring a Cloud Engineering Intern for Jan 2027. This is a hands-on infrastructure role. You will write Terraform, Dockerfiles and GitHub Actions workflows that go through review. Remote within the US. The team meets in Oklahoma City once a quarter, travel covered.

Your projects:

• Investigate failed builds and deployment issues and write a short note on the cause
• Set up dashboards and alerts in Grafana, Prometheus or CloudWatch
• Test backup and restore steps for databases and record the results
• Rotate secrets in AWS Secrets Manager under supervision
• Write and improve CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions or GitLab CI
• Patch and update Linux servers in staging before production changes
• Automate routine tasks with Bash or Python scripts

Basic qualifications:

• Currently enrolled in a bachelor's or master's program, graduating 2028
• Based in the US for the duration of the internship
• Understanding of networking concepts like DNS, load balancers, ports and subnets
• Some exposure to AWS, Azure or GCP through a free tier account or course
• Comfortable with Linux: file permissions, processes, SSH and package management

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience with Terraform or Ansible

What you'll learn:

• Certificate, recommendation letter and a possible full-time offer
• How a real deployment pipeline, monitoring stack and on-call rotation fit together
• Infrastructure as code with Terraform on live AWS accounts
• Debugging failed deploys and reading logs under some time pressure

Program dates: Jan 2027, 12 weeks.

Pay: $44.00 - $55.00/hr

Benefits for interns:

• Intern events and speaker sessions (virtual)
• Paid sick time
• Final presentation to leadership

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

Duration: 12 weeks. Start: Jan 2027.

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