DevOps Engineer Intern

Across New York, the company runs 14 branch offices and a central depot for hardware staging and imaging. Large rollouts are routine here, such as imaging 12,000 laptops for a state agency over one summer. Lunch is usually whatever is closest to the client site.

The program

Lilacbench is hiring a DevOps Engineer Intern for Dec 2026. This is a hands-on infrastructure role. You will write Terraform, Dockerfiles and GitHub Actions workflows that go through review. We are headquartered in New York City and have been hiring remotely since 2020. You will intern remotely with our team in New York City. We have hosted remote interns from several countries before. You will need at least 4 hours of overlap with US Eastern time.

What you'll do

• Containerise services with Docker and keep images small.
• Document runbooks for common incidents in Confluence.
• Set up dashboards and alerts in Grafana, Prometheus or CloudWatch.
• Rotate secrets in AWS Secrets Manager under supervision.
• Shadow the on-call engineer during working hours to learn incident response.

Basic qualifications

• Based in Italy for the duration of the internship.
• Eligible to work in Italy.
• Available 30 to 40 hours a week.
• Careful with production systems. You must follow change procedures exactly.
• Hands-on practice with Docker, even on personal projects.

Nice to have

• Knowledge of monitoring tools like Grafana or Datadog.
• A home lab or personal project with a working CI/CD pipeline.

What you get out of it

• Support towards an AWS certification, with the exam fee covered for strong interns.
• Debugging failed deploys and reading logs under some time pressure.
• Certificate, recommendation letter and a possible full-time offer.

Program dates: Dec 2026, 6 months.

Intern pay: $1,900 to $2,400 monthly

Benefits for interns

• Online learning budget.
• Mentorship.
• Certificate of completion.

Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis.

Duration: 6 months. Start: Dec 2026.

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