DevOps Intern

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

About the internship

Saltbox Telecom is hiring a DevOps Intern for Within 2 weeks. This is a hands-on infrastructure role. You will write Terraform, Dockerfiles and GitHub Actions workflows that go through review. Our headquarters is in Nantes, and about a third of the team works remotely from other countries. The internship is fully remote. Interns join our Nantes team on daily calls and get a named mentor. Core hours are 10:00 to 15:00 CET.

Responsibilities

• 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
• Shadow the on-call engineer during working hours to learn incident response
• Write and improve CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions or GitLab CI
• Investigate failed builds and deployment issues and write a short note on the cause

Basic qualifications

• Women starting or restarting their careers are encouraged to apply
• Students currently pursuing B.Tech, BE, BCA, MCA, B.Sc or a related degree, or fresh graduates (2026, 2027 or 2028 batch)
• Laptop with at least 8 GB RAM (16 GB preferred) and a reliable internet connection
• Pursuing B.Tech, BE, BCA, MCA, BSCS or a related degree, graduating in 2026, 2027 or 2028
• Available 30 to 40 hours a week
• Hands-on practice with Docker, even on personal projects

Preferred qualifications

• Knowledge of monitoring tools like Grafana or Datadog
• Experience with Terraform or Ansible
• AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner or Solutions Architect Associate

What you'll learn

• How a real deployment pipeline, monitoring stack and on-call rotation fit together
• Support towards an AWS certification, with the exam fee covered for strong interns
• Infrastructure as code with Terraform on live AWS accounts

Program dates: Within 2 weeks, 3 months.

Intern pay: $600-$750 monthly

Perks

• Flexible work hours
• Certificate
• Performance bonus
• Mentorship from senior team members
• Laptop provided for the internship

Duration: 3 months. Start: Within 2 weeks.

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