Platform Engineering Intern

We make a web-based inventory and purchasing system used by independent restaurants, breweries and small food manufacturers. Customers use our platform to manage equipment rentals: reservations, check-out, damage photos, invoicing and QuickBooks sync.

About the role:

This is a hands-on infrastructure role. You will write Terraform, Dockerfiles and GitHub Actions workflows that go through review. Remote, open to candidates across Australia. Normal working hours, Monday to Friday.

Day to day:

• Set up dashboards and alerts in Grafana, Prometheus or CloudWatch
• Patch and update Linux servers in staging before production changes
• Investigate failed builds and deployment issues and write a short note on the cause
• Review cloud costs each month and point out unused resources
• Document runbooks for common incidents in Confluence

What we're looking for:

• Eligible to work in Australia
• Available for the full internship period
• Based in Australia for the duration of the internship
• Basic scripting in Bash or Python
• Laptop with at least 8 GB RAM (16 GB preferred) and a reliable internet connection
• Careful with production systems. You must follow change procedures exactly
• Comfortable with Linux: file permissions, processes, SSH and package management
• Understanding of networking concepts like DNS, load balancers, ports and subnets

Bonus points:

• AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner or Solutions Architect Associate
• Kubernetes basics, such as pods, deployments and services
• Experience with Terraform or Ansible

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

Duration: 4 months

Start date: Jan 2027

Stipend: $4,700 - $6,000 pcm

What we offer:

• Mentoring from an experienced team member
• Graduate scheme fast-track interview
• Paid holiday accrued during the placement
• Reference on completion
• Flexible working hours
• Access to online training

Applications close when we find the right person, so get in early.

Duration: 4 months. Start: Jan 2027.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Lodgeloft Apps Pty Ltd.