Site Reliability Engineering Intern

We manage apartments, townhomes and single-family rentals for individual owners and investors. Most of the portfolio is multifamily, from 12-unit buildings to 300-unit communities. Founded in 2000, we now have 190 employees.

The internship:

We are moving older services to containers and the intern will help with the migration and the documentation. You can work from home anywhere in the US. We have no office requirement. We send you a laptop and the accessories you need on day one.

Responsibilities:

• Patch and update Linux servers in staging before production changes
• Set up dashboards and alerts in Grafana, Prometheus or CloudWatch
• Test backup and restore steps for databases and record the results
• Write and improve CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions or GitLab CI
• Review cloud costs each month and point out unused resources
• Automate routine tasks with Bash or Python scripts

Who can apply:

• Based in the US for the duration of the internship
• Available 40 hours a week for the full internship
• Authorized to work in the US. CPT and OPT candidates are welcome to apply
• Careful with production systems. You must follow change procedures exactly
• 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

Preferred:

• Knowledge of monitoring tools like Grafana or Datadog
• AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner or Solutions Architect Associate

What you'll learn:

• Infrastructure as code with Terraform on live AWS accounts
• Certificate, recommendation letter and a possible full-time offer
• Debugging failed deploys and reading logs under some time pressure

Duration: 10-12 weeks

Start date: Summer 2027

Stipend: $43.50 to $49.50 per hour

What we offer:

• Company laptop
• Mentorship from a dedicated buddy and manager
• Intern events and speaker sessions (virtual)
• Paid company holidays
• Final presentation to leadership
• Home office setup stipend

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

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Chicago Property Management.