Infrastructure Placement Student

About us

Clients have the owner's cell number, and the owner still takes the occasional Saturday call. Our bench is in the back of a strip-mall storefront, where we image laptops and swap failed drives.

Overview

Our Platform 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 position. Most of the team is in Frankfurt, but nobody is required to come in. Most of our work is async, and meetings are kept short. Strong written English is important, since much of our work is async.

What you'll do

• Shadow the on-call engineer during working hours to learn incident response
• Automate routine tasks with Bash or Python scripts
• Test backup and restore steps for databases and record the results
• Manage AWS resources such as EC2, S3, RDS and IAM roles with Terraform
• Investigate failed builds and deployment issues and write a short note on the cause
• Deploy and update apps on Kubernetes using Helm charts

Who can apply

• Currently enrolled in a bachelor's or master's degree, graduating 2027
• Available for the full internship period
• 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
• Hands-on practice with Docker, even on personal projects
• Familiarity with Git and how CI pipelines work
• Understanding of networking concepts like DNS, load balancers, ports and subnets

Nice to have

• Knowledge of monitoring tools like Grafana or Datadog

What you get out of it

• You will make infrastructure changes that go through review and reach production
• Debugging failed deploys and reading logs under some time pressure
• Support towards an AWS certification, with the exam fee covered for strong interns

Duration: 3 months

Start date: Dec 2026

Stipend: €1,850 - €2,300/month

Perks

• Mentorship
• Flexible hours
• Internet allowance

Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis.

Duration: 3 months. Start: Dec 2026.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Alpen Data Systems.