Linux Administration Intern

Headquartered in Phoenix, the company has grown since 1983 by acquiring regional IT providers. After-hours on-call comes around every fourth week.

The program

Irissmith is hiring a Linux Administration Intern for Immediately. Our Site Reliability 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. Remote internship with a team based in Phoenix. The stipend is paid at the end of each month. You will need at least 4 hours of overlap with US Central time. You will need a stable internet connection and a backup power source (UPS or inverter).

Responsibilities

• Review cloud costs each month and point out unused resources.
• Automate routine tasks with Bash or Python scripts.
• Rotate secrets in AWS Secrets Manager under supervision.
• Shadow the on-call engineer during working hours to learn incident response.
• Test backup and restore steps for databases and record the results.
• Investigate failed builds and deployment issues and write a short note on the cause.
• Deploy and update apps on Kubernetes using Helm charts.

What we're looking for

• Students currently pursuing B.Tech, BE, BCA, MCA, B.Sc or a related degree, or fresh graduates (2026, 2027 or 2028 batch)
• Available for a full-time (work from home) internship for the full duration.
• Available 30 to 40 hours a week.
• Some exposure to AWS, Azure or GCP through a free tier account or course.
• Familiarity with Git and how CI pipelines work.
• Laptop with at least 8 GB RAM (16 GB preferred) and a reliable internet connection.
• Hands-on practice with Docker, even on personal projects.

Nice to have

• A home lab or personal project with a working CI/CD pipeline.

What you'll learn

• Support towards an AWS certification, with the exam fee covered for strong interns.
• You will make infrastructure changes that go through review and reach production.
• Infrastructure as code with Terraform on live AWS accounts.

Program dates: Immediately, 3 months.

Compensation: $500 to $600 per month

What we offer

• Mentorship from senior team members.
• Free access to paid learning courses.
• Internet allowance.
• Flexible work hours.
• Informal dress code.

Duration: 3 months. Start: Immediately.

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