DevOps Engineer Intern (Summer 2027)

Our engineering group is split into roughly 60 product teams, each owning its services end to end, with on-call shared across time zones. More than 9,000 organisations use our HR and payroll suite, from regional hospitals to school districts. Founded in 1992, we now have 6,100 employees. On-call rotates weekly and pays a flat stipend whether or not the pager goes off.

Internship overview

Skiffpath is hiring a DevOps Engineer Intern for Summer 2027. Skiffpath is hiring a DevOps intern to help with CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure and monitoring. This is a remote internship. You will work with our team in London, and the stipend is paid monthly in euros. Working hours overlap with UK business hours.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Containerise services with Docker and keep images small.
• Review cloud costs each month and point out unused resources.

Basic qualifications

• Based in the Netherlands for the duration of the internship.
• Currently enrolled in a bachelor's or master's degree, graduating 2028.
• Hands-on practice with Docker, even on personal projects.
• Careful with production systems. You must follow change procedures exactly.
• Understanding of networking concepts like DNS, load balancers, ports and subnets.
• Comfortable with Linux: file permissions, processes, SSH and package management.
• Laptop with at least 8 GB RAM (16 GB preferred) and a reliable internet connection.

Preferred qualifications

• Knowledge of monitoring tools like Grafana or Datadog.

What you get out of it

• Certificate, recommendation letter and a possible full-time offer.
• Infrastructure as code with Terraform on live AWS accounts.
• How a real deployment pipeline, monitoring stack and on-call rotation fit together.
• Support towards an AWS certification, with the exam fee covered for strong interns.

Program dates: Summer 2027, 10-12 weeks.

Pay: €3,900 - €4,400 monthly

Benefits for interns

• Mentorship.
• Internet allowance.
• Letter of recommendation.
• Certificate of completion.

Duration: 10-12 weeks. Start: Summer 2027.

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