Infrastructure Engineering Intern

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The internship

This is a hands-on infrastructure role. You will write Terraform, Dockerfiles and GitHub Actions workflows that go through review. You can work from home anywhere in the US. We have no office requirement. Few meetings, lots of written updates. We send you a laptop and the accessories you need on day one.

Responsibilities

• Write and improve CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions or GitLab CI
• 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
• Patch and update Linux servers in staging before production changes
• Set up dashboards and alerts in Grafana, Prometheus or CloudWatch
• Review cloud costs each month and point out unused resources
• Containerise services with Docker and keep images small
• Rotate secrets in AWS Secrets Manager under supervision

Requirements

• Authorized to work in the US. CPT and OPT candidates are welcome to apply
• Currently enrolled in a bachelor's or master's program, graduating 2028
• Available 30 to 40 hours a week
• Basic scripting in Bash or Python
• Laptop with at least 8 GB RAM (16 GB preferred) and a reliable internet connection
• Some exposure to AWS, Azure or GCP through a free tier account or course

Preferred

• AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner or Solutions Architect Associate
• Kubernetes basics, such as pods, deployments and services
• A home lab or personal project with a working CI/CD pipeline

What you'll learn

• Certificate, recommendation letter and a possible full-time offer
• How a real deployment pipeline, monitoring stack and on-call rotation fit together
• Debugging failed deploys and reading logs under some time pressure
• You will make infrastructure changes that go through review and reach production

Duration: 10-12 weeks

Start date: Summer 2027

Stipend: $42.00-$46.50 per hour

Perks

• Return offer opportunities
• Learning and development stipend
• Paid company holidays
• Mentorship from a dedicated buddy and manager

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

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