DevOps Engineering Intern

About Piedmont Data

More than 9,000 organisations use our HR and payroll suite, from regional hospitals to school districts. Product, engineering and support teams work out of offices in New York City, New York and two nearshore delivery centres. Most engineers work remotely and come into the office one week a quarter for planning.

The internship

We are moving older services to containers and the intern will help with the migration and the documentation. Our headquarters is in New York City, and about a third of the team works remotely from other countries. This is a remote internship. You will work with our team in New York City, and the stipend is paid monthly in local currency. Expect to work a schedule that overlaps with US Eastern business hours until about noon ET. You will need a reliable internet connection and a quiet place to work.

Day to day

Manage AWS resources such as EC2, S3, RDS and IAM roles with Terraform. Test backup and restore steps for databases and record the results. Shadow the on-call engineer during working hours to learn incident response. Set up dashboards and alerts in Grafana, Prometheus or CloudWatch. Automate routine tasks with Bash or Python scripts. Write and improve CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions or GitLab CI. Deploy and update apps on Kubernetes using Helm charts.

Requirements

Based in Colombia for the duration of the internship. Eligible to work in Colombia. Available for the full internship period. Currently enrolled in a bachelor's or master's degree, graduating 2027 or 2028. Basic scripting in Bash or Python. Available 30 to 40 hours a week. Hands-on practice with Docker, even on personal projects. Some exposure to AWS, Azure or GCP through a free tier account or course.

Duration: 6 months

Start date: Feb 2027

Stipend: COP 4,300,000-COP 5,300,000 monthly

Perks

Certificate of completion. Flexible hours. Online learning budget.

Duration: 6 months. Start: Feb 2027.

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