Platform Engineering Intern

Our bench is in the back of a strip-mall storefront, where we image laptops and swap failed drives. Clients have the owner's cell number, and the owner still takes the occasional Saturday call.

Overview:

This is a hands-on infrastructure role. You will write Terraform, Dockerfiles and GitHub Actions workflows that go through review. Remote internship with a team based in Brisbane. The stipend is paid at the end of each month. Core hours overlap with Sydney business hours until mid-afternoon.

Responsibilities:

• Containerise services with Docker and keep images small
• Shadow the on-call engineer during working hours to learn incident response
• Investigate failed builds and deployment issues and write a short note on the cause
• Deploy and update apps on Kubernetes using Helm charts
• Patch and update Linux servers in staging before production changes
• Manage AWS resources such as EC2, S3, RDS and IAM roles with Terraform
• Document runbooks for common incidents in Confluence
• Write and improve CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions or GitLab CI

Requirements:

• Available for the full internship period
• Eligible to work in Spain
• Familiarity with Git and how CI pipelines work
• Some exposure to AWS, Azure or GCP through a free tier account or course
• Hands-on practice with Docker, even on personal projects
• Understanding of networking concepts like DNS, load balancers, ports and subnets
• Basic scripting in Bash or Python

Preferred:

• Kubernetes basics, such as pods, deployments and services
• Knowledge of monitoring tools like Grafana or Datadog
• Experience with Terraform or Ansible

What you'll learn:

• You will make infrastructure changes that go through review and reach production
• Infrastructure as code with Terraform on live AWS accounts
• Debugging failed deploys and reading logs under some time pressure

Duration: 6 months

Start date: Feb 2027

Stipend: $2,450 - $2,950 per month

Perks:

• Company laptop
• Internet allowance
• Online learning budget
• Mentorship
• Certificate of completion

Duration: 6 months. Start: Feb 2027.

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