Platform Engineering Intern (Remote)

Cable splicing, OTDR testing and directional boring are all done by in-house crews. Fixed wireless covers the hardest-to-reach areas, and fiber reaches more of the territory each year. We started in 2012 and have grown to about 90 people.

About the role

We are moving older services to containers and the intern will help with the migration and the documentation. Remote within the US. The team meets in Indianapolis once a quarter, travel covered.

Responsibilities

• Write and improve CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions or GitLab CI.
• Set up dashboards and alerts in Grafana, Prometheus or CloudWatch.
• Document runbooks for common incidents in Confluence.
• Review cloud costs each month and point out unused resources.
• Investigate failed builds and deployment issues and write a short note on the cause.
• Rotate secrets in AWS Secrets Manager under supervision.

What we're looking for

• Currently enrolled in a bachelor's or master's program, graduating 2028.
• Available 40 hours a week for the full internship.
• 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.
• Careful with production systems. You must follow change procedures exactly.

Duration: 6 months

Start date: Mar 2027

Stipend: $34.50 - $49.00/hr

What we offer

• Return offer opportunities.
• Paid sick time.
• Learning and development stipend.

Start dates are flexible, usually within a few weeks of an offer.

Duration: 6 months. Start: Mar 2027.

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