Platform Engineering Intern

ABOUT CANOPYMILL FIBER

Cable splicing, OTDR testing and directional boring are all done by in-house crews. Fixed wireless covers the hardest-to-reach areas, and fiber reaches more of the territory each year. We started in 2012 and have grown to about 90 people.

THE INTERNSHIP

Our Cloud Operations 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. You can work from home anywhere in the US. We have no office requirement. Standard office hours, Monday to Friday, with flexibility around them.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Automate routine tasks with Bash or Python scripts. 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. Set up dashboards and alerts in Grafana, Prometheus or CloudWatch. Document runbooks for common incidents in Confluence.

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

Based in the US for the duration of the internship. Currently enrolled in a bachelor's or master's program, graduating between December 2027 and June 2028. Available 40 hours a week for the full internship. Laptop with at least 8 GB RAM (16 GB preferred) and a reliable internet connection. Understanding of networking concepts like DNS, load balancers, ports and subnets. Comfortable with Linux: file permissions, processes, SSH and package management. Familiarity with Git and how CI pipelines work.

PREFERRED

Experience with Terraform or Ansible. AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner or Solutions Architect Associate. 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.

Duration: 6 months

Start date: Feb 2027

Stipend: $35.00 - $49.50 an hour

WHAT WE OFFER

Final presentation to leadership. Intern events and speaker sessions (virtual). Company laptop. Paid sick time.

Duration: 6 months. Start: Feb 2027.

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