Platform Engineering Intern

About Vetch Systems

Since 2007, the company has sold practice management software to dental and veterinary clinics in the UAE. Founded in 2007, the business writes the billing, metering and customer portal software that small water and electric utilities run on.

About the role

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 is a remote internship. You will work with our team in Dubai, and the stipend is paid monthly in euros. You will work Dubai business hours, Monday to Friday. We talk mostly in Slack and hop on quick calls when something needs discussing.

Responsibilities

• Containerise services with Docker and keep images small
• Investigate failed builds and deployment issues and write a short note on the cause
• Rotate secrets in AWS Secrets Manager under supervision
• Set up dashboards and alerts in Grafana, Prometheus or CloudWatch
• Manage AWS resources such as EC2, S3, RDS and IAM roles with Terraform
• Shadow the on-call engineer during working hours to learn incident response
• Deploy and update apps on Kubernetes using Helm charts
• Test backup and restore steps for databases and record the results

Who can apply

• Available for the full internship period
• Currently enrolled in a bachelor's or master's degree, graduating 2027 or 2028
• Based in Ireland for the duration of the internship
• Eligible to work in Ireland
• Understanding of networking concepts like DNS, load balancers, ports and subnets
• Available 30 to 40 hours a week
• Laptop with at least 8 GB RAM (16 GB preferred) and a reliable internet connection
• Familiarity with Git and how CI pipelines work
• Basic scripting in Bash or Python

Bonus points

• Experience with Terraform or Ansible
• Kubernetes basics, such as pods, deployments and services

Duration: 3 months

Start date: Feb 2027

Stipend: €6,000-€6,400 pcm

Perks

• Mentoring from an experienced team member
• Home working allowance
• Laptop provided
• Graduate scheme fast-track interview
• Access to online training
• Flexible working hours

Duration: 3 months. Start: Feb 2027.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Vetch Systems LLC.