Site Reliability Engineering Intern

Who we are

Clients have the owner's cell number, and the owner still takes the occasional Saturday call. Every tech does a bit of everything, from printer jams to firewall rules. Tickets live in ConnectWise and everyone logs time to the quarter hour.

The internship

Remote internship for a student who enjoys Linux, scripting and figuring out why a build broke. We are headquartered in Utrecht and have been hiring remotely since 2020. The internship is fully remote. Interns join our Utrecht team on daily calls and get a named mentor. Working hours overlap with Central European Time.

What you'll do

• Manage AWS resources such as EC2, S3, RDS and IAM roles with Terraform
• Rotate secrets in AWS Secrets Manager under supervision
• Shadow the on-call engineer during working hours to learn incident response
• Deploy and update apps on Kubernetes using Helm charts
• Patch and update Linux servers in staging before production changes
• Write and improve CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions or GitLab CI
• Document runbooks for common incidents in Confluence

Requirements

• Available 40 hours a week for the full internship
• Currently enrolled in a bachelor's or master's program, graduating 2027
• Authorized to work in the US. CPT and OPT candidates are welcome to apply
• Based in the US for the duration of the internship
• Familiarity with Git and how CI pipelines work
• Hands-on practice with Docker, even on personal projects
• Some exposure to AWS, Azure or GCP through a free tier account or course
• Careful with production systems. You must follow change procedures exactly
• Laptop with at least 8 GB RAM (16 GB preferred) and a reliable internet connection
• Basic scripting in Bash or Python

What you get out of it

• Support towards an AWS certification, with the exam fee covered for strong interns
• How a real deployment pipeline, monitoring stack and on-call rotation fit together
• You will make infrastructure changes that go through review and reach production

Duration: 3 months

Start date: Dec 2026

Stipend: $35.00-$48.00 an hour

What we offer

• Company laptop
• Learning and development stipend
• Return offer opportunities
• Home office setup stipend
• Paid company holidays

Duration: 3 months. Start: Dec 2026.

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