Site Reliability Engineering Intern

About Lee Pharmaceuticals

Contract research clients send us samples from trial sites all over the world. Most of the team works in process development, analytical chemistry and quality control. Lab coats, safety glasses and closed-toe shoes in all lab areas.

Overview

This is a hands-on infrastructure role. You will write Terraform, Dockerfiles and GitHub Actions workflows that go through review. 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. You will need a reliable internet connection and a quiet place to work.

What you'll do

• Shadow the on-call engineer during working hours to learn incident response.
• Investigate failed builds and deployment issues and write a short note on the cause.
• Set up dashboards and alerts in Grafana, Prometheus or CloudWatch.
• Automate routine tasks with Bash or Python scripts.
• Rotate secrets in AWS Secrets Manager under supervision.
• Document runbooks for common incidents in Confluence.
• Containerise services with Docker and keep images small.

Who can apply

• Currently enrolled in a bachelor's or master's program, graduating 2027 or 2028.
• Available 40 hours a week for the full internship.
• Available 30 to 40 hours a week.
• Hands-on practice with Docker, even on personal projects.
• Understanding of networking concepts like DNS, load balancers, ports and subnets.
• Laptop with at least 8 GB RAM (16 GB preferred) and a reliable internet connection.

Bonus points

• A home lab or personal project with a working CI/CD pipeline.

What you'll learn

• Infrastructure as code with Terraform on live AWS accounts.
• Support towards an AWS certification, with the exam fee covered for strong interns.

Duration: 6 months

Start date: Mar 2027

Stipend: $42.00 - $47.00 an hour

What we offer

• Learning and development stipend.
• Return offer opportunities.
• Paid sick time.
• Company laptop.
• Final presentation to leadership.

Duration: 6 months. Start: Mar 2027.

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