Cloud Engineering Intern

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Overview

Our Platform 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. Remote position. Most of the team is in Frederick, but nobody is required to come in. Normal working hours, Monday to Friday.

What you'll do

• Deploy and update apps on Kubernetes using Helm charts
• Shadow the on-call engineer during working hours to learn incident response
• 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
• Document runbooks for common incidents in Confluence
• Rotate secrets in AWS Secrets Manager under supervision

What we're looking for

• Authorized to work in the US. CPT and OPT candidates are welcome to apply
• Available 40 hours a week for the full internship
• Currently enrolled in a bachelor's or master's program, graduating 2027 or 2028
• Based in the US for the duration of the internship
• Careful with production systems. You must follow change procedures exactly
• Familiarity with Git and how CI pipelines work
• Some exposure to AWS, Azure or GCP through a free tier account or course

What you'll learn

• Support towards an AWS certification, with the exam fee covered for strong interns
• You will make infrastructure changes that go through review and reach production
• Certificate, recommendation letter and a possible full-time offer

Duration: 6 months

Start date: Feb 2027

Stipend: $49.50 - $53.00/hr

What we offer

• Final presentation to leadership
• Home office setup stipend
• Return offer opportunities
• Intern events and speaker sessions (virtual)
• Paid sick time
• Learning and development stipend

Duration: 6 months. Start: Feb 2027.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Tamarackridge Interactive, LLC.