Cloud Engineering Intern

Enterprise, wholesale and government customers buy Ethernet, wavelength and dark fiber services. We're looking for a Cloud Engineering Intern. Our Cloud Operations 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. Our team is spread across 6 countries. Headquarters is in New York City. The internship is fully remote. Interns join our New York City team on daily calls and get a named mentor. Expect to work a schedule that overlaps with US Eastern business hours until about noon ET. We use Slack, Notion and Google Meet. Cameras on for team calls.

The work

• Investigate failed builds and deployment issues and write a short note on the cause.
• Deploy and update apps on Kubernetes using Helm charts.
• Patch and update Linux servers in staging before production changes.
• Document runbooks for common incidents in Confluence.
• Set up dashboards and alerts in Grafana, Prometheus or CloudWatch.

About you

• Eligible to work in Australia.
• Based in Australia for the duration of the internship.
• Laptop with at least 8 GB RAM (16 GB preferred) and a reliable internet connection.
• Comfortable with Linux: file permissions, processes, SSH and package management.
• Understanding of networking concepts like DNS, load balancers, ports and subnets.

4 months, starting Jan 2027. Stipend: $46.50-$55.00 per hour.

Perks: Graduate scheme fast-track interview, Reference on completion, Mentoring from an experienced team member, Flexible working hours.

Shortlisting will begin immediately.

Duration: 4 months. Start: Jan 2027.

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