Infrastructure Engineering Intern

About us:

Help desk calls are answered from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., with an on-call tech covering nights and weekends. From the Seattle office, we cover clients within about a two-hour drive and support remote sites through RMM tools. After-hours on-call comes around every fourth week.

About the role:

Our Cloud Operations 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. Remote, open to candidates across the US. We do not have many meetings. Most updates happen in writing. Communication happens mostly in Slack and short video calls.

Responsibilities:

• Containerise services with Docker and keep images small.
• Shadow the on-call engineer during working hours to learn incident response.
• Set up dashboards and alerts in Grafana, Prometheus or CloudWatch.
• Rotate secrets in AWS Secrets Manager under supervision.
• Document runbooks for common incidents in Confluence.

Who can apply:

• Currently enrolled in a bachelor's or master's program, graduating between December 2027 and June 2028.
• Based in the US for the duration of the internship.
• Basic scripting in Bash or Python.
• Careful with production systems. You must follow change procedures exactly.
• Available 30 to 40 hours a week.
• Comfortable with Linux: file permissions, processes, SSH and package management.
• Laptop with at least 8 GB RAM (16 GB preferred) and a reliable internet connection.

Nice to have:

• Experience with Terraform or Ansible.
• Knowledge of monitoring tools like Grafana or Datadog.

What you'll learn:

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

Duration: 6 months

Start date: Feb 2027

Stipend: $40.00 - $55.00 an hour

What we offer:

• Paid sick time.
• Home office setup stipend.
• Company laptop.

Duration: 6 months. Start: Feb 2027.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Prairiedesk Business Technology.