DevOps Engineer Intern

About Afridi Centre:

Volunteers deliver meals, tutor students, sort donations and staff the front desk. Refugee resettlement services include housing setup, English classes, school enrolment and job placement.

The internship:

We are moving older services to containers and the intern will help with the migration and the documentation. Fully remote. You can work from anywhere in Pakistan.

Day to day:

• Review cloud costs each month and point out unused resources.
• Rotate secrets in AWS Secrets Manager under supervision.
• Test backup and restore steps for databases and record the results.
• Write and improve CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions or GitLab CI.
• Patch and update Linux servers in staging before production changes.
• Shadow the on-call engineer during working hours to learn incident response.
• Automate routine tasks with Bash or Python scripts.
• Manage AWS resources such as EC2, S3, RDS and IAM roles with Terraform.

Requirements:

• Final-year students or fresh graduates of BSCS, BSSE, BBA or a related program.
• Have their own laptop and a reliable internet connection, ideally with a UPS backup.
• Based anywhere in Pakistan.
• Available for at least 30 hours a week, work from home.
• Basic scripting in Bash or Python.
• Familiarity with Git and how CI pipelines work.
• Laptop with at least 8 GB RAM (16 GB preferred) and a reliable internet connection.

Preferred:

• Knowledge of monitoring tools like Grafana or Datadog.
• Kubernetes basics, such as pods, deployments and services.
• AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner or Solutions Architect Associate.

Duration: 3 months

Start date: Immediately

Stipend: PKR 60,000-PKR 75,000 a month

What we offer:

• Mentorship from senior team members.
• Free access to paid learning courses.
• Job offer on successful completion.
• Informal dress code.
• Flexible work hours.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

Duration: 3 months. Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Afridi Center (Pvt.) Ltd..