Infrastructure Placement Student

We run one of the larger SaaS platforms for commercial insurance carriers, processing millions of policy transactions a year.

Internship overview

Whistleloft is hiring an Infrastructure Placement Student for Mar 2027. Whistleloft is hiring a DevOps intern to help with CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure and monitoring. Our headquarters is in Thornton, and about a third of the team works remotely from other countries. This is a remote internship. You will work with our team in Thornton, and the stipend is paid monthly in USD. You will need at least 4 hours of overlap with US Central time.

Your projects

• Manage AWS resources such as EC2, S3, RDS and IAM roles with Terraform
• Rotate secrets in AWS Secrets Manager under supervision
• Investigate failed builds and deployment issues and write a short note on the cause
• Write and improve CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions or GitLab CI
• Containerise services with Docker and keep images small

What we're looking for

• Available for the full internship period
• Currently enrolled in a bachelor's or master's degree, graduating 2027 or 2028
• Hands-on practice with Docker, even on personal projects
• Basic scripting in Bash or Python
• Laptop with at least 8 GB RAM (16 GB preferred) and a reliable internet connection
• Understanding of networking concepts like DNS, load balancers, ports and subnets
• Comfortable with Linux: file permissions, processes, SSH and package management

Preferred qualifications

• Experience with Terraform or Ansible

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

Program dates: Mar 2027, 3 months.

Pay: $900 - $1,050/month

Benefits for interns

• Online learning budget
• Internet allowance
• Paid public holidays

Duration: 3 months. Start: Mar 2027.

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