Platform Engineering Intern

About us:

Our claims organization handles more than 400,000 claims a year, including catastrophe response after hurricanes and hail. We close at 3 p.m. on Fridays in the summer.

About the role:

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 within the US. The team meets in Boston once a quarter, travel covered. Flexible schedule. We have one team call a day, usually in the morning. A quiet workspace and good internet are required.

What you'll do:

• Manage AWS resources such as EC2, S3, RDS and IAM roles with Terraform.
• Automate routine tasks with Bash or Python scripts.
• Review cloud costs each month and point out unused resources.
• Investigate failed builds and deployment issues and write a short note on the cause.
• Patch and update Linux servers in staging before production changes.
• Write and improve CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions or GitLab CI.
• Deploy and update apps on Kubernetes using Helm charts.

Requirements:

• Available 40 hours a week for the full internship.
• Authorized to work in the US. CPT and OPT candidates are welcome to apply.
• Currently enrolled in a bachelor's or master's program, graduating between December 2027 and June 2028.
• Based in the US for the duration of the internship.
• Basic scripting in Bash or Python.
• Available 30 to 40 hours a week.
• Familiarity with Git and how CI pipelines work.
• Comfortable with Linux: file permissions, processes, SSH and package management.
• Understanding of networking concepts like DNS, load balancers, ports and subnets.

Bonus points:

• Experience with Terraform or Ansible.
• Kubernetes basics, such as pods, deployments and services.

What you'll learn:

• How a real deployment pipeline, monitoring stack and on-call rotation fit together.
• Certificate, recommendation letter and a possible full-time offer.
• You will make infrastructure changes that go through review and reach production.
• Support towards an AWS certification, with the exam fee covered for strong interns.

Duration: 10 weeks

Start date: May 2027

Stipend: $45.50 - $46.50 per hour

What we offer:

• Intern events and speaker sessions (virtual)
• Paid sick time.
• Learning and development stipend.

Duration: 10 weeks. Start: May 2027.

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