DevOps Intern - Remote

We specialise in commercial insurance for contractors, trucking companies and restaurants. Employee benefits clients use us for group health, dental, vision and life plans. January renewals keep everyone busy for a few weeks.

Overview

Lafayette Insurance Agency is hiring a DevOps intern to help with CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure and monitoring. The internship is fully remote. Interns join our Lafayette team on daily calls and get a named mentor. You will need at least 4 hours of overlap with US Central time. Day-to-day communication is in Slack and Google Meet.

What you'll do

• Manage AWS resources such as EC2, S3, RDS and IAM roles with Terraform.
• Document runbooks for common incidents in Confluence.
• Review cloud costs each month and point out unused resources.
• Set up dashboards and alerts in Grafana, Prometheus or CloudWatch.
• Write and improve CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions or GitLab CI.
• Deploy and update apps on Kubernetes using Helm charts.
• Test backup and restore steps for databases and record the results.
• Patch and update Linux servers in staging before production changes.

Who can apply

• Students or recent graduates of BIT, BCA, BBA, BBS or a related program.
• Based in Nepal.
• Own laptop and a reliable internet connection.
• Understanding of networking concepts like DNS, load balancers, ports and subnets.
• Some exposure to AWS, Azure or GCP through a free tier account or course.
• Basic scripting in Bash or Python.
• Laptop with at least 8 GB RAM (16 GB preferred) and a reliable internet connection.
• Careful with production systems. You must follow change procedures exactly.
• Comfortable with Linux: file permissions, processes, SSH and package management.

Duration: 3 months

Start date: Immediately

Stipend: NPR 33,000 - NPR 46,000 pcm

What we offer

• Performance bonus.
• Internet allowance.
• Informal dress code.
• Flexible work hours.
• Pre-placement offer (PPO) for strong performers.
• Job offer on successful completion.

Duration: 3 months. Start: Immediately.

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