Infrastructure Placement Student

Our engineering group is split into roughly 60 product teams, each owning its services end to end, with on-call shared across time zones. Most engineers work remotely and come into the office one week a quarter for planning.

Internship overview

Thatchhall Labs is hiring an Infrastructure Placement Student for Jul 2027. This is a hands-on infrastructure role. You will write Terraform, Dockerfiles and GitHub Actions workflows that go through review. Remote within Spain. The team meets in Madrid once a quarter, travel covered. We do not have many meetings. Most updates happen in writing.

Your projects

Deploy and update apps on Kubernetes using Helm charts. Patch and update Linux servers in staging before production changes. Shadow the on-call engineer during working hours to learn incident response. Manage AWS resources such as EC2, S3, RDS and IAM roles with Terraform. Test backup and restore steps for databases and record the results. Review cloud costs each month and point out unused resources.

What we're looking for

Eligible to work in Spain. Available for the full internship period. Laptop with at least 8 GB RAM (16 GB preferred) and a reliable internet connection. Available 30 to 40 hours a week. Familiarity with Git and how CI pipelines work. Comfortable with Linux: file permissions, processes, SSH and package management. Hands-on practice with Docker, even on personal projects.

Preferred qualifications

Kubernetes basics, such as pods, deployments and services. Exposure to Nginx configuration. A home lab or personal project with a working CI/CD pipeline.

What you get out of it

You will make infrastructure changes that go through review and reach production. How a real deployment pipeline, monitoring stack and on-call rotation fit together.

Program dates: Jul 2027, 10-12 weeks.

Pay: €1,250-€1,300/month

Benefits for interns

Company laptop. Mentorship. Possibility of a full-time offer.

We may close this posting early once we have enough applications.

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

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