DevOps Engineer Intern

About us:

Public sector agencies, utilities and large health systems licence our asset management platform under multi-year contracts. More than 9,000 organisations use our HR and payroll suite, from regional hospitals to school districts. Founded in 1998, we now have 960 employees. On-call rotates weekly and pays a flat stipend whether or not the pager goes off.

About the role:

We are moving older services to containers and the intern will help with the migration and the documentation. The company is based in Broken Arrow, the US. The team is distributed across several countries. The internship is fully remote. Interns join our Broken Arrow team on daily calls and get a named mentor. Core hours overlap with US Central time, 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM CT.

Day to day:

• Test backup and restore steps for databases and record the results.
• Deploy and update apps on Kubernetes using Helm charts.
• Rotate secrets in AWS Secrets Manager under supervision.
• Patch and update Linux servers in staging before production changes.
• Shadow the on-call engineer during working hours to learn incident response.

Who can apply:

• Based in Latvia for the duration of the internship.
• Eligible to work in Latvia.
• Currently enrolled in a bachelor's or master's degree, graduating 2026, 2027 or 2028.
• Available for the full internship period.
• Available 30 to 40 hours a week.
• Basic scripting in Bash or Python.
• Understanding of networking concepts like DNS, load balancers, ports and subnets.

Bonus points:

• Kubernetes basics, such as pods, deployments and services.
• Experience with Terraform or Ansible.
• Knowledge of monitoring tools like Grafana or Datadog.

What you get out of it:

• Debugging failed deploys and reading logs under some time pressure.
• Certificate, recommendation letter and a possible full-time offer.
• Infrastructure as code with Terraform on live AWS accounts.
• You will make infrastructure changes that go through review and reach production.

Duration: 5 months

Start date: Dec 2026

Stipend: $1,850 - $2,150 monthly

What we offer:

• Internet allowance.
• Possibility of a full-time offer.
• Letter of recommendation.
• Online learning budget.
• Flexible hours.

Duration: 5 months. Start: Dec 2026.

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