Infrastructure Engineering Intern

About Cascade Tech Support:

Typical projects include office moves, server migrations to Azure, and replacing aging switches and access points. Help desk calls are answered from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., with an on-call tech covering nights and weekends. After-hours on-call comes around every fourth week.

The internship:

Cascade Tech Support is hiring a DevOps intern to help with CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure and monitoring. This role is fully remote within the US. You can set your own hours around a daily morning check-in. We talk mostly in Slack and hop on quick calls when something needs discussing.

Day to day:

• Write and improve CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions or GitLab CI.
• Deploy and update apps on Kubernetes using Helm charts.
• Shadow the on-call engineer during working hours to learn incident response.
• Set up dashboards and alerts in Grafana, Prometheus or CloudWatch.
• Automate routine tasks with Bash or Python scripts.
• Test backup and restore steps for databases and record the results.
• Investigate failed builds and deployment issues and write a short note on the cause.
• Patch and update Linux servers in staging before production changes.

What we're looking for:

• Authorized to work in the US. CPT and OPT candidates are welcome to apply.
• Available 40 hours a week for the full internship.
• Based in the US for the duration of the internship.
• Currently enrolled in a bachelor's or master's program, graduating 2026, 2027 or 2028.
• Available 30 to 40 hours a week.
• Understanding of networking concepts like DNS, load balancers, ports and subnets.
• Hands-on practice with Docker, even on personal projects.
• Careful with production systems. You must follow change procedures exactly.
• Basic scripting in Bash or Python.
• Familiarity with Git and how CI pipelines work.

Nice to have:

• A home lab or personal project with a working CI/CD pipeline.
• Exposure to Nginx configuration.
• AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner or Solutions Architect Associate.

What you get out of it:

• You will make infrastructure changes that go through review and reach production.
• Support towards an AWS certification, with the exam fee covered for strong interns.
• Infrastructure as code with Terraform on live AWS accounts.

Duration: 6 months

Start date: Dec 2026

Stipend: $42.00 - $46.00 an hour

What we offer:

• Company laptop.
• Intern events and speaker sessions (virtual)
• Final presentation to leadership.
• Paid sick time.
• Learning and development stipend.
• Home office setup stipend.

Duration: 6 months. Start: Dec 2026.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Cascade Tech Support LLC.