DevOps Engineering Intern

Our warehouses and distribution centers total over 20 million square feet. Tamarackyard Freight is a logistics company with 540 employees and operations in 30 countries.

THE INTERNSHIP:

Remote internship for a student who enjoys Linux, scripting and figuring out why a build broke. Remote within the US. The team meets in St. George once a quarter, travel covered. We use Slack, Notion and Google Meet. Cameras on for team calls.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Investigate failed builds and deployment issues and write a short note on the cause
• Set up dashboards and alerts in Grafana, Prometheus or CloudWatch
• Manage AWS resources such as EC2, S3, RDS and IAM roles with Terraform
• Document runbooks for common incidents in Confluence
• Test backup and restore steps for databases and record the results
• Rotate secrets in AWS Secrets Manager under supervision
• Write and improve CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions or GitLab CI

WHO CAN APPLY:

• Currently enrolled in a bachelor's or master's program, graduating 2027 or 2028
• Based in the US for the duration of the internship
• Available 40 hours a week for the full internship
• Authorized to work in the US. CPT and OPT candidates are welcome to apply
• Familiarity with Git and how CI pipelines work
• Laptop with at least 8 GB RAM (16 GB preferred) and a reliable internet connection
• Hands-on practice with Docker, even on personal projects
• Careful with production systems. You must follow change procedures exactly
• Understanding of networking concepts like DNS, load balancers, ports and subnets

WHAT YOU GET OUT OF IT:

• Debugging failed deploys and reading logs under some time pressure
• Infrastructure as code with Terraform on live AWS accounts

Duration: 4 months

Start date: Feb 2027

Stipend: $44.50 - $48.50 an hour

WHAT WE OFFER:

• Company laptop
• Flexible hours
• Home office setup stipend
• Final presentation to leadership

Duration: 4 months. Start: Feb 2027.

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