Platform Engineering Intern

About Dublin Cloud:

Product, engineering and support teams work out of offices in Dublin, County Dublin and two nearshore delivery centres. We started in 2001 and have grown to about 780 people.

Overview:

We are moving older services to containers and the intern will help with the migration and the documentation. This role is fully remote within Ireland. Hours are flexible, with one short team call each morning. Equipment is provided, including a laptop.

What you'll do:

• Manage AWS resources such as EC2, S3, RDS and IAM roles with Terraform
• Investigate failed builds and deployment issues and write a short note on the cause
• Review cloud costs each month and point out unused resources
• Automate routine tasks with Bash or Python scripts
• Shadow the on-call engineer during working hours to learn incident response
• Document runbooks for common incidents in Confluence
• Containerise services with Docker and keep images small

Who can apply:

• Available for the full internship period
• Eligible to work in Ireland
• Hands-on practice with Docker, even on personal projects
• Understanding of networking concepts like DNS, load balancers, ports and subnets
• Some exposure to AWS, Azure or GCP through a free tier account or course
• Familiarity with Git and how CI pipelines work

Preferred:

• Experience with Terraform or Ansible
• AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner or Solutions Architect Associate
• Knowledge of monitoring tools like Grafana or Datadog

What you get out of it:

• Certificate, recommendation letter and a possible full-time offer
• Support towards an AWS certification, with the exam fee covered for strong interns
• How a real deployment pipeline, monitoring stack and on-call rotation fit together

Duration: 3 months

Start date: Dec 2026

Stipend: €18.50 - €20.00 an hour

Perks:

• Home working allowance
• Laptop provided
• Access to online training
• Reference on completion

Duration: 3 months. Start: Dec 2026.

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