DevOps Engineering Intern - Remote

We run a fiber backbone of over 20,000 route miles, plus data centers and network operations centers. Headquartered in Nantes, the company has 136,300 employees and contact centers in four locations.

The program:

Saltbox Telecom is hiring a DevOps Engineering Intern for May 2027. This is a hands-on infrastructure role. You will write Terraform, Dockerfiles and GitHub Actions workflows that go through review. The internship is fully remote. Interns join our Nantes team on daily calls and get a named mentor. Working hours overlap with Central European Time. Please make sure you have a quiet place to work and a solid internet connection.

What you'll do:

• Document runbooks for common incidents in Confluence
• Automate routine tasks with Bash or Python scripts
• Test backup and restore steps for databases and record the results
• Patch and update Linux servers in staging before production changes
• Review cloud costs each month and point out unused resources
• Containerise services with Docker and keep images small

What we're looking for:

• Available 40 hours a week for the full internship
• Based in the US for the duration of the internship
• Comfortable with Linux: file permissions, processes, SSH and package management
• Available 30 to 40 hours a week
• Basic scripting in Bash or Python

Nice to have:

• A home lab or personal project with a working CI/CD pipeline

What you'll learn:

• Infrastructure as code with Terraform on live AWS accounts
• Support towards an AWS certification, with the exam fee covered for strong interns
• Debugging failed deploys and reading logs under some time pressure

Program dates: May 2027, 10 weeks.

Compensation: $41.50 to $47.00/hr

What we offer:

• Paid sick time
• Mentorship from a dedicated buddy and manager
• Intern events and speaker sessions (virtual)
• Return offer opportunities
• Final presentation to leadership

EOE. We participate in E-Verify.

Duration: 10 weeks. Start: May 2027.

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