Platform Engineering Intern

Who we are:

Projects under development total another 8 gigawatts across New York. We have more than 5 gigawatts of renewable capacity in operation.

About the role:

We are moving older services to containers and the intern will help with the migration and the documentation. Remote within the US. The team meets in New York City once a quarter, travel covered. Normal working hours, Monday to Friday.

Day to day:

• Rotate secrets in AWS Secrets Manager under supervision
• Manage AWS resources such as EC2, S3, RDS and IAM roles with Terraform
• Document runbooks for common incidents in Confluence
• Automate routine tasks with Bash or Python scripts
• Deploy and update apps on Kubernetes using Helm charts
• Write and improve CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions or GitLab CI
• Investigate failed builds and deployment issues and write a short note on the cause
• Test backup and restore steps for databases and record the results

Requirements:

• Currently enrolled in a bachelor's or master's program, graduating 2027 or 2028
• Based in the US for the duration of the internship
• Familiarity with Git and how CI pipelines work
• Available 30 to 40 hours a week
• Comfortable with Linux: file permissions, processes, SSH and package management

Nice to have:

• Knowledge of monitoring tools like Grafana or Datadog
• Exposure to Nginx configuration
• Kubernetes basics, such as pods, deployments and services

What you get out of it:

• You will make infrastructure changes that go through review and reach production
• Certificate, recommendation letter and a possible full-time offer
• Debugging failed deploys and reading logs under some time pressure

Duration: 10 weeks

Start date: Summer 2027

Stipend: $42.50 to $44.50 per hour

Perks:

• Learning and development stipend
• Mentorship from a dedicated buddy and manager
• Intern events and speaker sessions (virtual)
• Paid company holidays
• Final presentation to leadership
• Company laptop

Interview process: a phone call, a meeting with the hiring manager, and a final conversation with the team.

Duration: 10 weeks. Start: Summer 2027.

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