DevOps Engineering Intern

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

The program

Tacklethread is hiring a DevOps Engineering Intern for Dec 2026. We are moving older services to containers and the intern will help with the migration and the documentation. Remote internship with a team based in Doha. The stipend is paid at the end of each month. You will work Dubai business hours, Monday to Friday.

Responsibilities

• Manage AWS resources such as EC2, S3, RDS and IAM roles with Terraform.
• Document runbooks for common incidents in Confluence.
• Write and improve CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions or GitLab CI.
• Shadow the on-call engineer during working hours to learn incident response.
• Set up dashboards and alerts in Grafana, Prometheus or CloudWatch.
• Containerise services with Docker and keep images small.

What we're looking for

• Eligible to work in Japan.
• Available for the full internship period.
• Comfortable with Linux: file permissions, processes, SSH and package management.
• Basic scripting in Bash or Python.
• Careful with production systems. You must follow change procedures exactly.
• Available 30 to 40 hours a week.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience with Terraform or Ansible.
• Exposure to Nginx configuration.

What you'll learn

• Infrastructure as code with Terraform on live AWS accounts.
• Certificate, recommendation letter and a possible full-time offer.
• Debugging failed deploys and reading logs under some time pressure.
• How a real deployment pipeline, monitoring stack and on-call rotation fit together.

Program dates: Dec 2026, 3 months.

Compensation: ¥300,000 - ¥340,000 per month

What we offer

• Mentorship.
• Online learning budget.
• Possibility of a full-time offer.
• Internet allowance.
• Company laptop.
• Paid public holidays.

Duration: 3 months. Start: Dec 2026.

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