Platform Engineering Intern

Who we are

Most of our technicians are in the field all day doing installs, repairs and drops from a company truck. Cable splicing, OTDR testing and directional boring are all done by in-house crews.

The internship

Remote internship for a student who enjoys Linux, scripting and figuring out why a build broke. We are headquartered in Phoenix and have been hiring remotely since 2020. You will intern remotely with our team in Phoenix. We have hosted remote interns from several countries before. You will need at least 4 hours of overlap with US Central time.

Responsibilities

• Shadow the on-call engineer during working hours to learn incident response
• Review cloud costs each month and point out unused resources
• Automate routine tasks with Bash or Python scripts
• Document runbooks for common incidents in Confluence
• Write and improve CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions or GitLab CI

Requirements

• Currently enrolled in a bachelor's or master's degree, graduating 2027 or 2028
• Available for the full internship period
• Eligible to work in Czechia
• Based in Czechia for the duration of the internship
• Hands-on practice with Docker, even on personal projects
• Familiarity with Git and how CI pipelines work
• Laptop with at least 8 GB RAM (16 GB preferred) and a reliable internet connection
• Some exposure to AWS, Azure or GCP through a free tier account or course
• Available 30 to 40 hours a week
• Careful with production systems. You must follow change procedures exactly

Nice to have

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

What you get out of it

• Debugging failed deploys and reading logs under some time pressure
• How a real deployment pipeline, monitoring stack and on-call rotation fit together
• Support towards an AWS certification, with the exam fee covered for strong interns

Duration: 6 months

Start date: Feb 2027

Stipend: CZK 60,000 - CZK 61,000/month

Perks

• Mentorship
• Internet allowance
• Certificate of completion

Duration: 6 months. Start: Feb 2027.

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