Site Reliability Engineering Intern (Remote)

About us

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.

About the role

This is a hands-on infrastructure role. You will write Terraform, Dockerfiles and GitHub Actions workflows that go through review. Remote within the US. The team meets in Chicago once a quarter, travel covered. Strong written English is important, since much of our work is async.

What you'll do

• Automate routine tasks with Bash or Python scripts
• Document runbooks for common incidents in Confluence
• Manage AWS resources such as EC2, S3, RDS and IAM roles with Terraform
• Rotate secrets in AWS Secrets Manager under supervision
• Containerise services with Docker and keep images small
• Review cloud costs each month and point out unused resources
• Shadow the on-call engineer during working hours to learn incident response

What we're looking for

• Available 40 hours a week for the full internship
• Authorized to work in the US. CPT and OPT candidates are welcome to apply
• Some exposure to AWS, Azure or GCP through a free tier account or course
• Comfortable with Linux: file permissions, processes, SSH and package management
• Hands-on practice with Docker, even on personal projects
• Familiarity with Git and how CI pipelines work

What you'll learn

• Infrastructure as code with Terraform on live AWS accounts
• Debugging failed deploys and reading logs under some time pressure
• You will make infrastructure changes that go through review and reach production
• How a real deployment pipeline, monitoring stack and on-call rotation fit together

Duration: 16 weeks

Start date: Spring 2027

Stipend: $37.50 to $52.00 per hour

What we offer

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

Interview process: a phone call, a meeting with the hiring manager, and a final conversation with the team.

Duration: 16 weeks. Start: Spring 2027.

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