Infrastructure Engineering Intern

Large rollouts are routine here, such as imaging 12,000 laptops for a state agency over one summer.

About the internship:

Kilnbank IT is hiring an Infrastructure Engineering Intern for Spring 2027. 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. Fully remote. You can work from anywhere in the US. Flexible schedule. We have one team call a day, usually in the morning. Communication happens mostly in Slack and short video calls.

Responsibilities:

• Document runbooks for common incidents in Confluence.
• Write and improve CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions or GitLab CI.
• Patch and update Linux servers in staging before production changes.
• Review cloud costs each month and point out unused resources.
• Rotate secrets in AWS Secrets Manager under supervision.
• Manage AWS resources such as EC2, S3, RDS and IAM roles with Terraform.

Who you are:

• Based in the US for the duration of the internship.
• Currently enrolled in a bachelor's or master's program, graduating 2027 or 2028.
• Some exposure to AWS, Azure or GCP through a free tier account or course.
• Comfortable with Linux: file permissions, processes, SSH and package management.
• Hands-on practice with Docker, even on personal projects.

Nice to have:

• Knowledge of monitoring tools like Grafana or Datadog.
• Exposure to Nginx configuration.
• AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner or Solutions Architect Associate.

What you'll learn:

• 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.
• How a real deployment pipeline, monitoring stack and on-call rotation fit together.

Program dates: Spring 2027, 12 weeks.

Intern pay: $48.00 - $50.00/hr

What we offer:

• Paid company holidays.
• Mentorship from a dedicated buddy and manager.
• Home office setup stipend.
• Return offer opportunities.
• Paid sick time.

Kilnbank IT is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.

This position requires a background check.

Duration: 12 weeks. Start: Spring 2027.

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