Site Reliability Engineering Intern

Our field services team covers retail chains, hospitals and banks, dispatching technicians to over 4,000 sites. We're looking for a Site Reliability Engineering Intern. This is a hands-on infrastructure role. You will write Terraform, Dockerfiles and GitHub Actions workflows that go through review. This role is fully remote within the US. Clear written English is a must, as the team works across time zones.

THE WORK

• Manage AWS resources such as EC2, S3, RDS and IAM roles with Terraform.
• Test backup and restore steps for databases and record the results.
• Write and improve CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions or GitLab CI.
• Shadow the on-call engineer during working hours to learn incident response.
• Patch and update Linux servers in staging before production changes.

REQUIREMENTS

• Available 40 hours a week for the full internship.
• Currently enrolled in a bachelor's or master's program, graduating 2028.
• Comfortable with Linux: file permissions, processes, SSH and package management.
• Basic scripting in Bash or Python.
• Available 30 to 40 hours a week.

12 weeks, starting Jan 2027. Stipend: $44.50 - $46.00 per hour.

Perks: Flexible hours, Return offer opportunities, Paid sick time, Paid company holidays, Final presentation to leadership.

We are unable to sponsor visas for this position.

Duration: 12 weeks. Start: Jan 2027.

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