DevOps Intern

Across New York, the company runs 14 branch offices and a central depot for hardware staging and imaging. Large rollouts are routine here, such as imaging 12,000 laptops for a state agency over one summer. Lunch is usually whatever is closest to the client site.

About the internship

Lilacbench is hiring a DevOps Intern for Immediately. Our Infrastructure 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. Our team is spread across 12 countries. Headquarters is in New York City. You will intern remotely with our team in New York City. We have hosted remote interns from several countries before. You will need at least 4 hours of overlap with US Eastern time.

Responsibilities

• Set up dashboards and alerts in Grafana, Prometheus or CloudWatch.
• Test backup and restore steps for databases and record the results.
• Containerise services with Docker and keep images small.
• Automate routine tasks with Bash or Python scripts.
• Investigate failed builds and deployment issues and write a short note on the cause.
• Manage AWS resources such as EC2, S3, RDS and IAM roles with Terraform.
• Document runbooks for common incidents in Confluence.

Who you are

• Are able to join within 15 days.
• Available for a full-time (work from home) internship for the full duration.
• 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.
• Basic scripting in Bash or Python.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience with Terraform or Ansible.
• Kubernetes basics, such as pods, deployments and services.

What you get out of it

• Infrastructure as code with Terraform on live AWS accounts.
• How a real deployment pipeline, monitoring stack and on-call rotation fit together.
• You will make infrastructure changes that go through review and reach production.
• Certificate, recommendation letter and a possible full-time offer.

Program dates: Immediately, 1 month.

Intern pay: $500 - $700 monthly

What we offer

• Mentorship from senior team members.
• Job offer on successful completion.
• Certificate.
• Free access to paid learning courses.

Duration: 1 month. Start: Immediately.

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