DevOps Engineer Intern

Large rollouts are routine here, such as imaging 12,000 laptops for a state agency over one summer. Certification exams are paid for, and passing one comes with a raise.

About the internship

Poplarworks is hiring a DevOps Engineer Intern for Within 2 weeks. This is a hands-on infrastructure role. You will write Terraform, Dockerfiles and GitHub Actions workflows that go through review. Fully remote. You can work from anywhere in India. We do not have many meetings. Most updates happen in writing. You will write a lot of updates, so clear written English is important.

Your projects

• Investigate failed builds and deployment issues and write a short note on the cause.
• Document runbooks for common incidents in Confluence.
• Deploy and update apps on Kubernetes using Helm charts.
• Patch and update Linux servers in staging before production changes.
• Write and improve CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions or GitLab CI.
• Set up dashboards and alerts in Grafana, Prometheus or CloudWatch.
• Rotate secrets in AWS Secrets Manager under supervision.

What we're looking for

• Have their own laptop and a reliable internet connection.
• Available for a full-time (work from home) internship for the full duration.
• Understanding of networking concepts like DNS, load balancers, ports and subnets.
• Some exposure to AWS, Azure or GCP through a free tier account or course.
• 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.

Nice to have

• AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner or Solutions Architect Associate.

What you'll learn

• You will make infrastructure changes that go through review and reach production.
• Support towards an AWS certification, with the exam fee covered for strong interns.
• Infrastructure as code with Terraform on live AWS accounts.
• How a real deployment pipeline, monitoring stack and on-call rotation fit together.

Program dates: Within 2 weeks, 6 months.

Intern pay: ₹28,000 to ₹32,000 per month

Perks

• Certificate.
• Flexible work hours.
• Job offer on successful completion.
• Pre-placement offer (PPO) for strong performers.
• Free access to paid learning courses.
• Performance bonus.

We are reviewing applications as they arrive, so apply early.

Duration: 6 months. Start: Within 2 weeks.

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