Site Reliability Engineering Intern

We run one of the larger SaaS platforms for commercial insurance carriers, processing millions of policy transactions a year. Annual releases gave way to two-week sprints years ago, and the platform now handles over 200 million API calls a day. On-call rotates weekly and pays a flat stipend whether or not the pager goes off.

Internship overview:

Frisco Data is hiring a Site Reliability Engineering Intern for Jan 2027. 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. You can work from home anywhere in the US. We have no office requirement. Weekday working hours, with room to shift your day when needed.

Your projects:

• Rotate secrets in AWS Secrets Manager under supervision
• Write and improve CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions or GitLab CI
• Set up dashboards and alerts in Grafana, Prometheus or CloudWatch
• Automate routine tasks with Bash or Python scripts
• Manage AWS resources such as EC2, S3, RDS and IAM roles with Terraform
• Test backup and restore steps for databases and record the results
• Document runbooks for common incidents in Confluence

Who you are:

• Currently enrolled in a bachelor's or master's program, graduating between December 2027 and June 2028
• Authorized to work in the US. CPT and OPT candidates are welcome to apply
• Available 30 to 40 hours a week
• Understanding of networking concepts like DNS, load balancers, ports and subnets
• Basic scripting in Bash or Python
• Some exposure to AWS, Azure or GCP through a free tier account or course

Preferred qualifications:

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

What you'll learn:

• Certificate, recommendation letter and a possible full-time offer
• You will make infrastructure changes that go through review and reach production

Program dates: Jan 2027, 16 weeks.

Intern pay: $46.00 - $48.50 an hour

Benefits for interns:

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

Frisco Data is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.

Send us your resume. No cover letter needed.

Duration: 16 weeks. Start: Jan 2027.

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