Linux Administration Intern

Who we are

Clients rely on us for laptop setup, Intune enrolment, backup monitoring and after-hours help when something breaks. We install and support network cabling, Wi-Fi, servers and VoIP phone systems for businesses across Arizona. Our dress code is a company polo and clean jeans.

The internship

Our Infrastructure 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. Our team is spread across 12 countries. Headquarters is in Mesa. You will intern remotely with our team in Mesa. We have hosted remote interns from several countries before. You will need at least 4 hours of overlap with US Central time.

Responsibilities

• Containerise services with Docker and keep images small.
• Test backup and restore steps for databases and record the results.
• Review cloud costs each month and point out unused resources.
• Write and improve CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions or GitLab CI.
• Set up dashboards and alerts in Grafana, Prometheus or CloudWatch.
• Patch and update Linux servers in staging before production changes.
• Rotate secrets in AWS Secrets Manager under supervision.
• Shadow the on-call engineer during working hours to learn incident response.

What we're looking for

• Are available for a full-time work from home internship for the entire duration.
• Own a laptop and have stable internet at home.
• Pursuing B.Tech, BE, BCA, MCA, BSCS or a related degree, graduating in 2026, 2027 or 2028.
• Familiarity with Git and how CI pipelines work.
• Basic scripting in Bash or Python.
• Hands-on practice with Docker, even on personal projects.

Nice to have

• AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner or Solutions Architect Associate.

What you get out of it

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

Duration: 3 months

Start date: Dec 2026

Stipend: $600 - $800/month

Perks

• Informal dress code.
• Certificate.
• Internet allowance.

Shortlisted candidates will hear from us within two weeks.

Duration: 3 months. Start: Dec 2026.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at BM Networks, LLC.