DevOps Engineering Intern

Help desk calls are answered from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., with an on-call tech covering nights and weekends. From the Seattle office, we cover clients within about a two-hour drive and support remote sites through RMM tools. After-hours on-call comes around every fourth week.

About the role:

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. Fully remote. You can work from anywhere in the US.

What you'll do:

• Patch and update Linux servers in staging before production changes
• Rotate secrets in AWS Secrets Manager under supervision
• Investigate failed builds and deployment issues and write a short note on the cause
• Deploy and update apps on Kubernetes using Helm charts
• Document runbooks for common incidents in Confluence
• Manage AWS resources such as EC2, S3, RDS and IAM roles with Terraform
• Review cloud costs each month and point out unused resources
• Containerise services with Docker and keep images small

Who can apply:

• Available 40 hours a week for the full internship
• Authorized to work in the US. CPT and OPT candidates are welcome to apply
• Currently enrolled in a bachelor's or master's program, graduating 2028
• Based in the US for the duration of the internship
• Understanding of networking concepts like DNS, load balancers, ports and subnets
• Comfortable with Linux: file permissions, processes, SSH and package management
• Available 30 to 40 hours a week
• Familiarity with Git and how CI pipelines work

Bonus points:

• A home lab or personal project with a working CI/CD pipeline
• AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner or Solutions Architect Associate

What you'll learn:

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

Duration: 6 months

Start date: Jan 2027

Stipend: $43.00 - $59.00 an hour

Perks:

• Paid sick time
• Mentorship from a dedicated buddy and manager
• Flexible hours
• Intern events and speaker sessions (virtual)

Duration: 6 months. Start: Jan 2027.

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