Platform Engineering Intern

About us

Since 2013, the company has served small towns that larger carriers skipped. Safety meetings are every Monday at 7 a.m., before trucks roll.

About the role

Our Cloud Operations team looks after AWS accounts, Kubernetes clusters and the build pipelines for 20 or so services. The intern will help with all of it under supervision. Fully remote. You can work from anywhere in the US. We send you a laptop and the accessories you need on day one.

What you'll do

• Automate routine tasks with Bash or Python scripts.
• Deploy and update apps on Kubernetes using Helm charts.
• Write and improve CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions or GitLab CI.
• Investigate failed builds and deployment issues and write a short note on the cause.
• Shadow the on-call engineer during working hours to learn incident response.
• Patch and update Linux servers in staging before production changes.
• Review cloud costs each month and point out unused resources.

Who can apply

• Based in the US for the duration of the internship.
• Available 40 hours a week for the full internship.
• Understanding of networking concepts like DNS, load balancers, ports and subnets.
• Laptop with at least 8 GB RAM (16 GB preferred) and a reliable internet connection.
• Basic scripting in Bash or Python.
• Comfortable with Linux: file permissions, processes, SSH and package management.
• Hands-on practice with Docker, even on personal projects.

What you get out of it

• Infrastructure as code with Terraform on live AWS accounts.
• Support towards an AWS certification, with the exam fee covered for strong interns.
• Certificate, recommendation letter and a possible full-time offer.
• Debugging failed deploys and reading logs under some time pressure.

Duration: 12 weeks

Start date: Immediately

Stipend: $38.50 - $49.50 an hour

What we offer

• Final presentation to leadership.
• Paid company holidays.
• Company laptop.
• Mentorship from a dedicated buddy and manager.
• Paid sick time.

Duration: 12 weeks. Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Prairie Connect.