Platform Engineering Intern

About us

Founded in 1987, the business writes the billing, metering and customer portal software that small water and electric utilities run on.

About the role

We are moving older services to containers and the intern will help with the migration and the documentation. This role is fully remote within the US. Most of our work is async, and meetings are kept short. Good written English matters here, since most updates are written.

Day to day

• Automate routine tasks with Bash or Python scripts.
• Review cloud costs each month and point out unused resources.
• Manage AWS resources such as EC2, S3, RDS and IAM roles with Terraform.
• Rotate secrets in AWS Secrets Manager under supervision.
• Test backup and restore steps for databases and record the results.
• Shadow the on-call engineer during working hours to learn incident response.
• Investigate failed builds and deployment issues and write a short note on the cause.
• Patch and update Linux servers in staging before production changes.

Who can apply

• Based in the US for the duration of the internship.
• Currently enrolled in a bachelor's or master's program, graduating 2028.
• Available 40 hours a week for the full internship.
• Some exposure to AWS, Azure or GCP through a free tier account or course.
• Understanding of networking concepts like DNS, load balancers, ports and subnets.
• Comfortable with Linux: file permissions, processes, SSH and package management.
• Hands-on practice with Docker, even on personal projects.

What you get out of it

• Infrastructure as code with Terraform on live AWS accounts.
• Certificate, recommendation letter and a possible full-time offer.
• Debugging failed deploys and reading logs under some time pressure.

Duration: 4 months

Start date: Jan 2027

Stipend: $49.50 to $55.50 an hour

Perks

• Paid sick time.
• Home office setup stipend.
• Paid company holidays.
• Mentorship from a dedicated buddy and manager.

If this sounds like a fit, apply with a resume. A cover letter is optional.

Duration: 4 months. Start: Jan 2027.

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