Infrastructure Engineering Intern

Government agencies and defense contractors make up a large share of revenue, and many roles require a clearance. Products include endpoint protection, email security and a cloud posture management platform. Background checks are required, and some client work requires a government clearance.

Overview:

Our Platform 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. Fully remote. You can work from anywhere in the US. Normal working hours, Monday to Friday.

Responsibilities:

• Set up dashboards and alerts in Grafana, Prometheus or CloudWatch
• Manage AWS resources such as EC2, S3, RDS and IAM roles with Terraform
• Investigate failed builds and deployment issues and write a short note on the cause
• Write and improve CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions or GitLab CI
• Test backup and restore steps for databases and record the results
• Automate routine tasks with Bash or Python scripts

Requirements:

• Available 40 hours a week for the full internship
• Based in the US for the duration of the internship
• Understanding of networking concepts like DNS, load balancers, ports and subnets
• Comfortable with Linux: file permissions, processes, SSH and package management
• Hands-on practice with Docker, even on personal projects
• Available 30 to 40 hours a week
• Some exposure to AWS, Azure or GCP through a free tier account or course

Bonus points:

• Exposure to Nginx configuration

What you'll learn:

• Debugging failed deploys and reading logs under some time pressure
• Infrastructure as code with Terraform on live AWS accounts
• How a real deployment pipeline, monitoring stack and on-call rotation fit together

Duration: 12 weeks

Start date: Spring 2027

Stipend: $39.00 - $50.00 an hour

What we offer:

• Return offer opportunities
• Company laptop
• Final presentation to leadership

No agencies or third-party recruiters, please.

Duration: 12 weeks. Start: Spring 2027.

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