Infrastructure Engineering Intern

Branch, recruiting center and onsite teams are backed by a central payroll and compliance group in Salem. Regional vice presidents oversee clusters of branches in Oregon and neighboring markets. Branch hours are 7:30 to 5, with one person on call for after-hours orders.

Internship overview:

Salem Staffing is hiring an Infrastructure Engineering Intern for June 2027. We are moving older services to containers and the intern will help with the migration and the documentation. Remote within the US. The team meets in Salem once a quarter, travel covered.

What you'll do:

• Deploy and update apps on Kubernetes using Helm charts.
• Manage AWS resources such as EC2, S3, RDS and IAM roles with Terraform.
• Set up dashboards and alerts in Grafana, Prometheus or CloudWatch.
• 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.
• Shadow the on-call engineer during working hours to learn incident response.
• Automate routine tasks with Bash or Python scripts.
• Document runbooks for common incidents in Confluence.

What we're looking for:

• Based in the US for the duration of the internship.
• Currently enrolled in a bachelor's or master's program, graduating 2028.
• Available 30 to 40 hours a week.
• Understanding of networking concepts like DNS, load balancers, ports and subnets.
• Some exposure to AWS, Azure or GCP through a free tier account or course.
• Basic scripting in Bash or Python.
• Comfortable with Linux: file permissions, processes, SSH and package management.

Preferred qualifications:

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

What you get out of it:

• Infrastructure as code with Terraform on live AWS accounts.
• How a real deployment pipeline, monitoring stack and on-call rotation fit together.
• You will make infrastructure changes that go through review and reach production.

Program dates: June 2027, 10-12 weeks.

Pay: $44.00 - $49.00 per hour

What we offer:

• Mentorship from a dedicated buddy and manager.
• Home office setup stipend.
• Company laptop.
• Flexible hours.

Offers are contingent on a background check and drug screen.

Duration: 10-12 weeks. Start: June 2027.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Salem Staffing, Inc..