Platform Engineering Intern - Summer 2027

Who we are:

Our field services team covers retail chains, hospitals and banks, dispatching technicians to over 4,000 sites. Enterprise clients outsource service desk, end-user support and data center operations to us under multi-year contracts. Tickets live in ConnectWise and everyone logs time to the quarter hour.

The internship:

Piedmont Networks is hiring a DevOps intern to help with CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure and monitoring. Fully remote. You can work from anywhere in the US. Few meetings, lots of written updates.

Day to day:

Manage AWS resources such as EC2, S3, RDS and IAM roles with Terraform. Set up dashboards and alerts in Grafana, Prometheus or CloudWatch. Review cloud costs each month and point out unused resources. Shadow the on-call engineer during working hours to learn incident response. Rotate secrets in AWS Secrets Manager under supervision.

Who can apply:

Authorized to work in the US. CPT and OPT candidates are welcome to apply. Available 40 hours a week for the full internship. Basic scripting in Bash or Python. Hands-on practice with Docker, even on personal projects. Comfortable with Linux: file permissions, processes, SSH and package management. Available 30 to 40 hours a week. Some exposure to AWS, Azure or GCP through a free tier account or course. Laptop with at least 8 GB RAM (16 GB preferred) and a reliable internet connection.

Duration: 10 weeks

Start date: Summer 2027

Stipend: $39.50 - $50.50 per hour

What we offer:

Final presentation to leadership. Paid company holidays. Mentorship from a dedicated buddy and manager.

We are unable to sponsor visas for this position.

Duration: 10 weeks. Start: Summer 2027.

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