Platform Engineering Intern (Spring 2027)

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Overview:

Our Site Reliability 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. This role is fully remote within the US. You need a reliable internet connection and somewhere quiet to work.

Responsibilities:

Manage AWS resources such as EC2, S3, RDS and IAM roles with Terraform. Set up dashboards and alerts in Grafana, Prometheus or CloudWatch. 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. Rotate secrets in AWS Secrets Manager under supervision. Review cloud costs each month and point out unused resources.

Who can apply:

Available 40 hours a week for the full internship. Currently enrolled in a bachelor's or master's program, graduating 2027 or 2028. Authorized to work in the US. CPT and OPT candidates are welcome to apply. Based in the US for the duration of the internship. Hands-on practice with Docker, even on personal projects. Available 30 to 40 hours a week. Familiarity with Git and how CI pipelines work. Understanding of networking concepts like DNS, load balancers, ports and subnets. Some exposure to AWS, Azure or GCP through a free tier account or course.

What you'll learn:

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

Duration: 4 months

Start date: Spring 2027

Stipend: $40.50-$45.00 per hour

What we offer:

Return offer opportunities. Paid company holidays. Home office setup stipend. Flexible hours. Mentorship from a dedicated buddy and manager. Paid sick time.

We review applications on a rolling basis.

Duration: 4 months. Start: Spring 2027.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at PM Managed Services LLC.