Linux Administration Intern

About Skiffbank:

Public sector agencies, utilities and large health systems licence our asset management platform under multi-year contracts. Founded in 2005, we now have 280 employees. Laptops are MacBook Pros, and you pick your own editor.

The internship:

We are moving older services to containers and the intern will help with the migration and the documentation. Fully remote. You can work from anywhere in Pakistan. You can set your own hours around a daily morning check-in. We talk mostly in Slack and hop on quick calls when something needs discussing.

What you'll do:

• Rotate secrets in AWS Secrets Manager under supervision
• Patch and update Linux servers in staging before production changes
• Review cloud costs each month and point out unused resources
• Document runbooks for common incidents in Confluence
• Investigate failed builds and deployment issues and write a short note on the cause
• Test backup and restore steps for databases and record the results
• Shadow the on-call engineer during working hours to learn incident response

Requirements:

• Own a laptop and have stable internet at home, ideally with a UPS backup
• Based anywhere in Pakistan
• Hands-on practice with Docker, even on personal projects
• Available 30 to 40 hours a week
• Understanding of networking concepts like DNS, load balancers, ports and subnets
• Comfortable with Linux: file permissions, processes, SSH and package management

Bonus points:

• Exposure to Nginx configuration

What you get out of it:

• Certificate, recommendation letter and a possible full-time offer
• How a real deployment pipeline, monitoring stack and on-call rotation fit together

Duration: 1 month

Start date: Jan 2027

Stipend: PKR 60,000 to PKR 65,000 pcm

What we offer:

• Free access to paid learning courses
• 5 days a week
• Internet allowance

Candidates must be eligible to work in.

Duration: 1 month. Start: Jan 2027.

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