Platform Engineering Intern - Spring 2027

About us:

Agents, brokers and direct customers all buy through our platforms, with policy administration on Guidewire. We employ 400 people across underwriting, claims, actuarial, IT and customer service.

The internship:

Our Infrastructure 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. You can work from home anywhere in Canada. We have no office requirement. You get a company laptop and a headset before you start.

Responsibilities:

• Deploy and update apps on Kubernetes using Helm charts
• Shadow the on-call engineer during working hours to learn incident response
• Patch and update Linux servers in staging before production changes
• Manage AWS resources such as EC2, S3, RDS and IAM roles with Terraform
• Rotate secrets in AWS Secrets Manager under supervision

Who can apply:

• Based in Canada for the duration of the internship
• Eligible to work in Canada
• Comfortable with Linux: file permissions, processes, SSH and package management
• Understanding of networking concepts like DNS, load balancers, ports and subnets
• Familiarity with Git and how CI pipelines work
• Some exposure to AWS, Azure or GCP through a free tier account or course

Preferred:

• AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner or Solutions Architect Associate

What you get out of it:

• Infrastructure as code with Terraform on live AWS accounts
• You will make infrastructure changes that go through review and reach production
• Certificate, recommendation letter and a possible full-time offer
• Debugging failed deploys and reading logs under some time pressure

Duration: 12 weeks

Start date: Spring 2027

Stipend: $27.50 to $35.00/hr

What we offer:

• Return offer opportunities
• Intern events and speaker sessions (virtual)
• Paid company holidays
• Company laptop

Duration: 12 weeks. Start: Spring 2027.

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