Linux Administration Intern

Who we are

Our field services team covers retail chains, hospitals and banks, dispatching technicians to over 4,000 sites. Across Arizona, the company runs 14 branch offices and a central depot for hardware staging and imaging. Founded in 2013, we now have 400 employees.

About the role

We are moving older services to containers and the intern will help with the migration and the documentation. Our headquarters is in Phoenix, and about a third of the team works remotely from other countries. Remote internship with a team based in Phoenix. The stipend is paid at the end of each month. Core hours overlap with US Central time, 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM CT. You will need a stable internet connection and a backup power source (UPS or inverter).

Day to day

Test backup and restore steps for databases and record the results. Review cloud costs each month and point out unused resources. Investigate failed builds and deployment issues and write a short note on the cause. Shadow the on-call engineer during working hours to learn incident response. Write and improve CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions or GitLab CI. Deploy and update apps on Kubernetes using Helm charts.

Who can apply

Students or recent graduates of BIT, BCA, BBA, BBS or a related program. Available for the full internship period, work from home. Own laptop and a reliable internet connection. Comfortable with Linux: file permissions, processes, SSH and package management. Familiarity with Git and how CI pipelines work. Basic scripting in Bash or Python. Careful with production systems. You must follow change procedures exactly.

Preferred

Exposure to Nginx configuration. Knowledge of monitoring tools like Grafana or Datadog. Experience with Terraform or Ansible.

Duration: 3 months

Start date: Immediately

Stipend: $350 - $400/month

What we offer

Certificate. Performance bonus. Pre-placement offer (PPO) for strong performers. Informal dress code. Free access to paid learning courses. Letter of recommendation.

Duration: 3 months. Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Fernpath Managed Services.