Linux Administration Intern

We run a fiber backbone of over 20,000 route miles, plus data centres and network operations centres. Headquartered in Nantes, the company has 136,300 employees and contact centres in four locations.

Internship overview:

Saltbox Telecom is hiring a Linux Administration Intern for Immediately. 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 headquarters is in Nantes, and about a third of the team works remotely from other countries. Remote internship with a team based in Nantes. The stipend is paid at the end of each month. Working hours overlap with Central European Time. Strong written English is important, since much of our work is async.

Responsibilities:

• Shadow the on-call engineer during working hours to learn incident response.
• Set up dashboards and alerts in Grafana, Prometheus or CloudWatch.
• Automate routine tasks with Bash or Python scripts.
• Deploy and update apps on Kubernetes using Helm charts.
• Containerise services with Docker and keep images small.

Basic qualifications:

• Are available for a full-time work from home internship for the entire duration.
• Own a laptop and have stable internet at home.
• Some exposure to AWS, Azure or GCP through a free tier account or course.
• Laptop with at least 8 GB RAM (16 GB preferred) and a reliable internet connection.
• Familiarity with Git and how CI pipelines work.
• Hands-on practice with Docker, even on personal projects.
• Basic scripting in Bash or Python.

Preferred qualifications:

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

What you get out of it:

• Infrastructure as code with Terraform on live AWS accounts.
• Debugging failed deploys and reading logs under some time pressure.
• Certificate, recommendation letter and a possible full-time offer.

Program dates: Immediately, 3 months.

Pay: $600 to $640/month

Perks:

• 5 days a week.
• Letter of recommendation.
• Laptop provided for the internship.
• Certificate.
• Job offer on successful completion.

Duration: 3 months. Start: Immediately.

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