Platform Engineering Intern

About Nelson Networks

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Overview

Nelson Networks is hiring a DevOps intern to help with CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure and monitoring. Remote position. Most of the team is in Minneapolis, but nobody is required to come in. Good written English matters here, since most updates are written.

Day to day

• Investigate failed builds and deployment issues and write a short note on the cause
• Review cloud costs each month and point out unused resources
• Write and improve CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions or GitLab CI
• Automate routine tasks with Bash or Python scripts
• Document runbooks for common incidents in Confluence
• Patch and update Linux servers in staging before production changes
• Containerise services with Docker and keep images small

Requirements

• Available 40 hours a week for the full internship
• Currently enrolled in a bachelor's or master's program, graduating 2027
• Based in the US for the duration of the internship
• Authorized to work in the US. CPT and OPT candidates are welcome to apply
• Hands-on practice with Docker, even on personal projects
• Understanding of networking concepts like DNS, load balancers, ports and subnets
• Available 30 to 40 hours a week
• Some exposure to AWS, Azure or GCP through a free tier account or course
• Careful with production systems. You must follow change procedures exactly

Bonus points

• Knowledge of monitoring tools like Grafana or Datadog
• A home lab or personal project with a working CI/CD pipeline
• AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner or Solutions Architect Associate

What you'll learn

• You will make infrastructure changes that go through review and reach production
• How a real deployment pipeline, monitoring stack and on-call rotation fit together
• Infrastructure as code with Terraform on live AWS accounts

Duration: 6 months

Start date: Immediately

Stipend: $44.50-$50.50/hr

Perks

• Company laptop
• Intern events and speaker sessions (virtual)
• Paid sick time

Interview process: a phone call, a meeting with the hiring manager, and a final conversation with the team.

Duration: 6 months. Start: Immediately.

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