DevOps Engineering Intern

Content moderation runs around the clock, with reviewers in multiple time zones and languages. We're looking for a DevOps Engineering Intern. Remote internship for a student who enjoys Linux, scripting and figuring out why a build broke. Remote within Kenya. The team meets in Nairobi once a quarter, travel covered. Normal working hours, Monday to Friday. You get a company laptop and a headset before you start.

The work:

• Test backup and restore steps for databases and record the results
• Shadow the on-call engineer during working hours to learn incident response
• Rotate secrets in AWS Secrets Manager under supervision
• Set up dashboards and alerts in Grafana, Prometheus or CloudWatch
• Manage AWS resources such as EC2, S3, RDS and IAM roles with Terraform

Requirements:

• Based in Kenya for the duration of the internship
• Available for the full internship period
• Careful with production systems. You must follow change procedures exactly
• Familiarity with Git and how CI pipelines work
• Understanding of networking concepts like DNS, load balancers, ports and subnets

6 months, starting immediately. Stipend: KES 46,000 - KES 49,000 a month.

Perks: Mentorship, Possibility of a full-time offer, Paid public holidays, Flexible hours.

Duration: 6 months. Start: Immediately.

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