DevOps Engineer Intern

About Sumacward Insurance Agency:

Founded as a farmers' mutual in 1968, the company is now one of the larger mutual insurers in Australia. Regional offices in Sydney and five other cities support agents and policyholders.

The internship:

Remote internship for a student who enjoys Linux, scripting and figuring out why a build broke. The company is based in Sydney, Australia. The team is distributed across several countries. The internship is fully remote. Interns join our Sydney team on daily calls and get a named mentor. You will need some overlap with Australian Eastern time in the mornings. Strong written English is important, since much of our work is async.

Day to day:

• Manage AWS resources such as EC2, S3, RDS and IAM roles with Terraform.
• Investigate failed builds and deployment issues and write a short note on the cause.
• Write and improve CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions or GitLab CI.
• Document runbooks for common incidents in Confluence.
• Automate routine tasks with Bash or Python scripts.
• Containerise services with Docker and keep images small.
• Shadow the on-call engineer during working hours to learn incident response.

Who can apply:

• Have a working laptop and a stable internet connection.
• Women returning to work after a career break are welcome to apply.
• Can start right away or within the next two weeks.
• Comfortable with Linux: file permissions, processes, SSH and package management.
• Familiarity with Git and how CI pipelines work.
• Some exposure to AWS, Azure or GCP through a free tier account or course.
• Careful with production systems. You must follow change procedures exactly.
• Hands-on practice with Docker, even on personal projects.

Bonus points:

• Exposure to Nginx configuration.
• AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner or Solutions Architect Associate.
• Experience with Terraform or Ansible.

Duration: 3 months

Start date: Immediately

Stipend: $600 - $700/month

Perks:

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

Duration: 3 months. Start: Immediately.

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