DevOps Engineer Intern

Across Doha, the company runs 14 branch offices and a central depot for hardware staging and imaging.

Internship overview:

Tacklethread is hiring a DevOps Engineer Intern for Sep 2027. Our Cloud Operations team looks after AWS accounts, Kubernetes clusters and the build pipelines for 20 or so services. The intern will help with all of it under supervision. The internship is fully remote. Interns join our Doha team on daily calls and get a named mentor. Working hours follow Gulf time, Monday to Friday. You get a company laptop and a headset before you start.

Your projects:

• Manage AWS resources such as EC2, S3, RDS and IAM roles with Terraform
• Review cloud costs each month and point out unused resources
• Set up dashboards and alerts in Grafana, Prometheus or CloudWatch
• Containerise services with Docker and keep images small
• Patch and update Linux servers in staging before production changes
• Write and improve CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions or GitLab CI
• Test backup and restore steps for databases and record the results
• Document runbooks for common incidents in Confluence

Basic qualifications:

• Eligible to work in Japan
• Currently enrolled in a bachelor's or master's degree, graduating 2027 or 2028
• Comfortable with Linux: file permissions, processes, SSH and package management
• Basic scripting in Bash or Python
• Some exposure to AWS, Azure or GCP through a free tier account or course

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience with Terraform or Ansible
• Kubernetes basics, such as pods, deployments and services
• Exposure to Nginx configuration

What you get out of it:

• Support towards an AWS certification, with the exam fee covered for strong interns
• You will make infrastructure changes that go through review and reach production
• Infrastructure as code with Terraform on live AWS accounts

Program dates: Sep 2027, 12 months.

Intern pay: ¥390,000 - ¥430,000 per month

Perks:

• Company laptop
• Certificate of completion
• Mentorship
• Online learning budget
• Letter of recommendation
• Paid public holidays

We may close the role early, so do not wait too long to apply.

Duration: 12 months. Start: Sep 2027.

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