Infrastructure Engineering Intern (Remote)

Who we are

Across Illinois, the company runs 14 branch offices and a central depot for hardware staging and imaging. Founded in 2011, we now have 250 employees.

The internship

We are moving older services to containers and the intern will help with the migration and the documentation. Fully remote. You can work from anywhere in the US. Normal working hours, Monday to Friday. We use Slack, Notion and Google Meet. Cameras on for team calls.

Day to day

• Automate routine tasks with Bash or Python scripts.
• Review cloud costs each month and point out unused resources.
• Manage AWS resources such as EC2, S3, RDS and IAM roles with Terraform.
• Shadow the on-call engineer during working hours to learn incident response.
• Deploy and update apps on Kubernetes using Helm charts.
• Patch and update Linux servers in staging before production changes.

Who can apply

• Based in the US for the duration of the internship.
• Authorized to work in the US. CPT and OPT candidates are welcome to apply.
• Available 40 hours a week for the full internship.
• Currently enrolled in a bachelor's or master's program, graduating 2026, 2027 or 2028.
• Understanding of networking concepts like DNS, load balancers, ports and subnets.
• Familiarity with Git and how CI pipelines work.
• Some exposure to AWS, Azure or GCP through a free tier account or course.

Bonus points

• A home lab or personal project with a working CI/CD pipeline.
• Experience with Terraform or Ansible.
• Knowledge of monitoring tools like Grafana or Datadog.

What you get out of it

• Infrastructure as code with Terraform on live AWS accounts.
• Certificate, recommendation letter and a possible full-time offer.
• You will make infrastructure changes that go through review and reach production.
• Debugging failed deploys and reading logs under some time pressure.

Duration: 6 months

Start date: Dec 2026

Stipend: $41.50 - $48.00 per hour

What we offer

• Flexible hours.
• Paid sick time.
• Final presentation to leadership.
• Mentorship from a dedicated buddy and manager.

We read every application and reply within about a week.

Duration: 6 months. Start: Dec 2026.

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