Cloud Engineering Intern

About us

Help desk calls are answered from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., with an on-call tech covering nights and weekends. WMB IT provides managed IT for offices of 10 to 200 users: help desk, patching, backups, Microsoft 365 and firewall management.

The internship

Remote internship for a student who enjoys Linux, scripting and figuring out why a build broke. Fully remote. You can work from anywhere in the UK.

Responsibilities

Review cloud costs each month and point out unused resources. Deploy and update apps on Kubernetes using Helm charts. Containerise services with Docker and keep images small. Set up dashboards and alerts in Grafana, Prometheus or CloudWatch. Shadow the on-call engineer during working hours to learn incident response. Automate routine tasks with Bash or Python scripts. Rotate secrets in AWS Secrets Manager under supervision.

Who can apply

Currently enrolled in a bachelor's or master's degree, graduating between December 2027 and June 2028. Based in the UK for the duration of the internship. Careful with production systems. You must follow change procedures exactly. 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. Available 30 to 40 hours a week. Some exposure to AWS, Azure or GCP through a free tier account or course. Basic scripting in Bash or Python.

Bonus points

Exposure to Nginx configuration. AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner or Solutions Architect Associate. A home lab or personal project with a working CI/CD pipeline.

What you'll learn

Support towards an AWS certification, with the exam fee covered for strong interns. Certificate, recommendation letter and a possible full-time offer. Debugging failed deploys and reading logs under some time pressure. How a real deployment pipeline, monitoring stack and on-call rotation fit together.

Duration: 6 months

Start date: Mar 2027

Stipend: £2,100 - £2,700 a month

Perks

Reference on completion. Access to online training. Home working allowance. Flexible working hours. Graduate scheme fast-track interview.

Duration: 6 months. Start: Mar 2027.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at WMB IT Ltd.