Platform Engineering Intern

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.

About the role:

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. Hours are flexible, with one short team call each morning. Communication happens mostly in Slack and short video calls.

Responsibilities:

• Shadow the on-call engineer during working hours to learn incident response.
• Review cloud costs each month and point out unused resources.
• Test backup and restore steps for databases and record the results.
• Deploy and update apps on Kubernetes using Helm charts.
• Containerise services with Docker and keep images small.

What we're looking for:

• Based in the US for the duration of the internship.
• Available 40 hours a week for the full internship.
• Currently enrolled in a bachelor's or master's program, graduating 2026 or 2027.
• Comfortable with Linux: file permissions, processes, SSH and package management.
• Familiarity with Git and how CI pipelines work.
• 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.
• Available 30 to 40 hours a week.

Duration: 4 months

Start date: Immediately

Stipend: $41.50 - $52.00/hr

Perks:

• Company laptop.
• Learning and development stipend.
• Mentorship from a dedicated buddy and manager.
• Home office setup stipend.
• Flexible hours.

Please include a short note on why this role interests you.

Duration: 4 months. Start: Immediately.

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