DevOps Engineer Intern

About Harrowbrook

Dentists, insurance agents and law offices make up most of the client list. Clients have the owner's cell number, and the owner still takes the occasional Saturday call. Founded in 1993, we now have 19 employees.

The internship

Harrowbrook is hiring a DevOps intern to help with CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure and monitoring. Fully remote. You can work from anywhere in Ireland. Normal working hours, Monday to Friday. We ship you a laptop and accessories before your first day.

What you'll do

• Deploy and update apps on Kubernetes using Helm charts.
• Set up dashboards and alerts in Grafana, Prometheus or CloudWatch.
• Document runbooks for common incidents in Confluence.
• Investigate failed builds and deployment issues and write a short note on the cause.
• Test backup and restore steps for databases and record the results.
• Containerise services with Docker and keep images small.

Who can apply

• Currently enrolled in a bachelor's or master's degree, graduating 2026 or 2027.
• Based in Ireland for the duration of the internship.
• Eligible to work in Ireland.
• Understanding of networking concepts like DNS, load balancers, ports and subnets.
• Available 30 to 40 hours a week.
• Comfortable with Linux: file permissions, processes, SSH and package management.
• Careful with production systems. You must follow change procedures exactly.
• Basic scripting in Bash or Python.
• Hands-on practice with Docker, even on personal projects.

What you get out of it

• You will make infrastructure changes that go through review and reach production.
• Certificate, recommendation letter and a possible full-time offer.
• Debugging failed deploys and reading logs under some time pressure.

Duration: 6 months

Start date: Dec 2026

Stipend: €29,000 - €36,000 pa

What we offer

• Access to online training.
• Flexible working hours.
• Laptop provided.
• Reference on completion.

Duration: 6 months. Start: Dec 2026.

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