Platform Engineering Intern, Summer 2027

About Houston Apps:

Founded in 2013, the business writes the billing, metering and customer portal software that small water and electric utilities run on. Built in Houston, our document management tool is used by county clerks, title companies and small law offices. Founded in 2013, we now have 90 employees.

The internship:

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. Remote, open to candidates across the US. Monday to Friday, regular working hours, flexible start and finish. We use Slack, Notion and Google Meet. Cameras on for team calls.

Day to day:

• Set up dashboards and alerts in Grafana, Prometheus or CloudWatch.
• Patch and update Linux servers in staging before production changes.
• Document runbooks for common incidents in Confluence.
• Containerise services with Docker and keep images small.
• Write and improve CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions or GitLab CI.
• Review cloud costs each month and point out unused resources.
• Shadow the on-call engineer during working hours to learn incident response.

What we're looking for:

• Available 40 hours a week for the full internship.
• Authorized to work in the US. CPT and OPT candidates are welcome to apply.
• Based in the US for the duration of the internship.
• Laptop with at least 8 GB RAM (16 GB preferred) and a reliable internet connection.
• Hands-on practice with Docker, even on personal projects.
• Comfortable with Linux: file permissions, processes, SSH and package management.

What you get out of it:

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

Duration: 10-12 weeks

Start date: Summer 2027

Stipend: $40.00 - $53.50/hr

What we offer:

• Learning and development stipend.
• Mentorship from a dedicated buddy and manager.
• Home office setup stipend.
• Return offer opportunities.

Duration: 10-12 weeks. Start: Summer 2027.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Houston Apps Inc..