Platform Engineering Intern (Remote)

Enterprise, wholesale and government customers buy Ethernet, wavelength and dark fiber services. Retail stores, field technicians and customer care all report into regional operations teams.

Internship overview:

Waxwing Telecom is hiring a Platform Engineering Intern for May 2027. We are moving older services to containers and the intern will help with the migration and the documentation. Remote position. Most of the team is in New York City, but nobody is required to come in. Few meetings, lots of written updates. We use Slack, Notion and Google Meet. Cameras on for team calls.

Your projects:

• Set up dashboards and alerts in Grafana, Prometheus or CloudWatch.
• Review cloud costs each month and point out unused resources.
• Deploy and update apps on Kubernetes using Helm charts.
• Containerise services with Docker and keep images small.
• Shadow the on-call engineer during working hours to learn incident response.
• Manage AWS resources such as EC2, S3, RDS and IAM roles with Terraform.
• Investigate failed builds and deployment issues and write a short note on the cause.

Who you are:

• Based in the US for the duration of the internship.
• Available 40 hours a week for the full internship.
• Basic scripting in Bash or Python.
• Understanding of networking concepts like DNS, load balancers, ports and subnets.
• Familiarity with Git and how CI pipelines work.

Nice to have:

• Experience with Terraform or Ansible.

What you get out of it:

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

Program dates: May 2027, 12 weeks.

Compensation: $44.50 - $57.00 per hour

Benefits for interns:

• Return offer opportunities.
• Flexible hours.
• Intern events and speaker sessions (virtual)
• Learning and development stipend.
• Paid company holidays.

Duration: 12 weeks. Start: May 2027.

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