Cloud Engineering Intern

Annual releases gave way to two-week sprints years ago, and the platform now handles over 200 million API calls a day. Thomas Systems employs 1,000 people across engineering hubs in New York City and three other locations, building ERP software for mid-market manufacturers.

Internship overview:

Thomas Systems is hiring a Cloud Engineering Intern for June 2027. Thomas Systems is hiring a DevOps intern to help with CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure and monitoring. Fully remote. You can work from anywhere in the US. Most of our work is async, and meetings are kept short. We use Slack, Notion and Google Meet. Cameras on for team calls.

Your projects:

• Set up dashboards and alerts in Grafana, Prometheus or CloudWatch
• Deploy and update apps on Kubernetes using Helm charts
• Write and improve CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions or GitLab CI
• Review cloud costs each month and point out unused resources
• Investigate failed builds and deployment issues and write a short note on the cause
• Rotate secrets in AWS Secrets Manager under supervision
• Containerise services with Docker and keep images small

Basic qualifications:

• Currently enrolled in a bachelor's or master's program, graduating between December 2027 and June 2028
• Based in the US for the duration of the internship
• Laptop with at least 8 GB RAM (16 GB preferred) and a reliable internet connection
• Understanding of networking concepts like DNS, load balancers, ports and subnets
• Comfortable with Linux: file permissions, processes, SSH and package management
• Familiarity with Git and how CI pipelines work
• Basic scripting in Bash or Python

Nice to have:

• AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner or Solutions Architect Associate
• Experience with Terraform or Ansible

What you'll learn:

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

Program dates: June 2027, 10 weeks.

Pay: $50.50-$53.50 per hour

Benefits for interns:

• Paid company holidays
• Final presentation to leadership
• Home office setup stipend
• Paid sick time
• Learning and development stipend

Thomas Systems provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants.

Interview process: a phone call, a meeting with the hiring manager, and a final conversation with the team.

Duration: 10 weeks. Start: June 2027.

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