Infrastructure Placement Student

Volunteers deliver meals, tutor students, sort donations and staff the front desk. We provide emergency shelter, rapid rehousing and case management for families experiencing homelessness. Founded in 1978, we now have 60 employees. The office closes the week between Christmas and New Year's.

About the role:

Northern Coalition is hiring a DevOps intern to help with CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure and monitoring. Fully remote. You can work from anywhere in Australia. We send you a laptop and the accessories you need on day one.

Responsibilities:

• Test backup and restore steps for databases and record the results
• Write and improve CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions or GitLab CI
• Review cloud costs each month and point out unused resources
• Document runbooks for common incidents in Confluence
• Patch and update Linux servers in staging before production changes
• Rotate secrets in AWS Secrets Manager under supervision

Who can apply:

• Currently enrolled in a bachelor's or master's degree, graduating 2028
• Available for the full internship period
• Careful with production systems. You must follow change procedures exactly
• Some exposure to AWS, Azure or GCP through a free tier account or course
• Basic scripting in Bash or Python

Preferred:

• Experience with Terraform or Ansible

What you get out of it:

• Certificate, recommendation letter and a possible full-time offer
• Infrastructure as code with Terraform on live AWS accounts

Duration: 6 months

Start date: Feb 2027

Stipend: $28.50 - $40.00 p/h

Perks:

• Home working allowance
• Reference on completion
• Flexible working hours
• Mentoring from an experienced team member

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are encouraged to apply.

Duration: 6 months. Start: Feb 2027.

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