Platform Engineering Intern

About us:

Our field services team covers retail chains, hospitals and banks, dispatching technicians to over 4,000 sites. Certifications include ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Type II, and we hold partner status with Microsoft, Cisco and VMware. We started in 2010 and have grown to about 430 people.

The internship:

This is a hands-on infrastructure role. You will write Terraform, Dockerfiles and GitHub Actions workflows that go through review. Our headquarters is in London, and about a third of the team works remotely from other countries. This is a remote internship. You will work with our team in London, and the stipend is paid monthly in euros. Working hours overlap with UK business hours. We use Slack, Notion and Google Meet. Cameras on for team calls.

What you'll do:

• Document runbooks for common incidents in Confluence.
• Set up dashboards and alerts in Grafana, Prometheus or CloudWatch.
• Review cloud costs each month and point out unused resources.
• Manage AWS resources such as EC2, S3, RDS and IAM roles with Terraform.
• Write and improve CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions or GitLab CI.

What we're looking for:

• Eligible to work in Germany.
• Based in Germany for the duration of the internship.
• Currently enrolled in a bachelor's or master's degree, graduating 2026, 2027 or 2028.
• Available 30 to 40 hours a week.
• Comfortable with Linux: file permissions, processes, SSH and package management.
• Careful with production systems. You must follow change procedures exactly.
• Basic scripting in Bash or Python.

What you'll learn:

• 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.
• Infrastructure as code with Terraform on live AWS accounts.
• Debugging failed deploys and reading logs under some time pressure.

Duration: 5 months

Start date: Immediately

Stipend: €3,600 - €3,700/month

Perks:

• Flexible hours.
• Online learning budget.
• Mentorship.
• Company laptop.

Due to the number of applications, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

Duration: 5 months. Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Lakecraft Computer Services Ltd.