Platform Engineering Intern

About us

We support about 60 local businesses, most within 30 minutes of the office. No call center and no offshore help desk. When clients call, one of us picks up.

The internship

This is a hands-on infrastructure role. You will write Terraform, Dockerfiles and GitHub Actions workflows that go through review. Remote within the US. The team meets in Cary once a quarter, travel covered. Normal working hours, Monday to Friday.

Responsibilities

• Document runbooks for common incidents in Confluence.
• Set up dashboards and alerts in Grafana, Prometheus or CloudWatch.
• Patch and update Linux servers in staging before production changes.
• Automate routine tasks with Bash or Python scripts.
• Deploy and update apps on Kubernetes using Helm charts.
• Containerise services with Docker and keep images small.
• Review cloud costs each month and point out unused resources.
• Rotate secrets in AWS Secrets Manager under supervision.

What we're looking for

• Authorized to work in the US. CPT and OPT candidates are welcome to apply.
• Currently enrolled in a bachelor's or master's program, graduating between December 2027 and June 2028.
• Based in the US for the duration of the internship.
• Available 40 hours a week for the full internship.
• Laptop with at least 8 GB RAM (16 GB preferred) and a reliable internet connection.
• Familiarity with Git and how CI pipelines work.
• Careful with production systems. You must follow change procedures exactly.

Bonus points

• AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner or Solutions Architect Associate.
• Knowledge of monitoring tools like Grafana or Datadog.

What you get out of it

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

Duration: 4 months

Start date: Feb 2027

Stipend: $35.00 - $49.50/hr

What we offer

• Flexible hours.
• Company laptop.
• Paid company holidays.
• Paid sick time.
• Home office setup stipend.

Most hires start within two to three weeks of an offer.

Duration: 4 months. Start: Feb 2027.

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