Platform Engineering Intern

Who we are

Help desk calls are answered from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., with an on-call tech covering nights and weekends. WMB IT provides managed IT for offices of 10 to 200 users: help desk, patching, backups, Microsoft 365 and firewall management.

The internship

WMB IT is hiring a DevOps intern to help with CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure and monitoring. You can work from home anywhere in the UK. We have no office requirement. Flexible schedule. We have one team call a day, usually in the morning.

What you'll do

• Deploy and update apps on Kubernetes using Helm charts
• Investigate failed builds and deployment issues and write a short note on the cause
• Review cloud costs each month and point out unused resources
• Rotate secrets in AWS Secrets Manager under supervision
• Test backup and restore steps for databases and record the results
• Write and improve CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions or GitLab CI
• Manage AWS resources such as EC2, S3, RDS and IAM roles with Terraform
• Document runbooks for common incidents in Confluence

What we're looking for

• Available for the full internship period
• Based in the UK for the duration of the internship
• Currently enrolled in a bachelor's or master's degree, graduating 2026 or 2027
• Eligible to work in the UK
• Careful with production systems. You must follow change procedures exactly
• Familiarity with Git and how CI pipelines work
• Laptop with at least 8 GB RAM (16 GB preferred) and a reliable internet connection
• Available 30 to 40 hours a week
• Comfortable with Linux: file permissions, processes, SSH and package management
• Understanding of networking concepts like DNS, load balancers, ports and subnets

What you'll learn

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

Duration: 5 months

Start date: Immediately

Stipend: £25,000-£32,000 per year

What we offer

• Home working allowance
• Reference on completion
• Mentoring from an experienced team member
• Laptop provided

Duration: 5 months. Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at WMB IT Ltd.