Site Reliability Engineering Intern

Headquartered in Los Angeles, the firm is employee-owned. Consultants are staffed across industries early on, then specialize after a few years.

The internship:

Sprucecross is hiring a DevOps intern to help with CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure and monitoring. Remote within the US. The team meets in Los Angeles once a quarter, travel covered. We use Slack, Notion and Google Meet. Cameras on for team calls.

Responsibilities:

• Write and improve CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions or GitLab CI.
• Rotate secrets in AWS Secrets Manager under supervision.
• Investigate failed builds and deployment issues and write a short note on the cause.
• Manage AWS resources such as EC2, S3, RDS and IAM roles with Terraform.
• Patch and update Linux servers in staging before production changes.
• Deploy and update apps on Kubernetes using Helm charts.
• Document runbooks for common incidents in Confluence.

Who can apply:

• Authorized to work in the US. CPT and OPT candidates are welcome to apply.
• Available 40 hours a week for the full internship.
• Hands-on practice with Docker, even on personal projects.
• Laptop with at least 8 GB RAM (16 GB preferred) and a reliable internet connection.
• Available 30 to 40 hours a week.
• Familiarity with Git and how CI pipelines work.
• Understanding of networking concepts like DNS, load balancers, ports and subnets.
• Comfortable with Linux: file permissions, processes, SSH and package management.

Nice to have:

• Exposure to Nginx configuration.
• Experience with Terraform or Ansible.
• AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner or Solutions Architect Associate.

Duration: 4 months

Start date: Spring 2027

Stipend: $45.00 - $49.00 per hour

What we offer:

• Learning and development stipend.
• Paid company holidays.
• Company laptop.
• Mentorship from a dedicated buddy and manager.
• Flexible hours.

Duration: 4 months. Start: Spring 2027.

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