DevOps Engineer Intern

DevOps, CI/CD, Git Workflows, Release Management, Deployment Workflows Remote | Unpaid Internship | 4–6 months | 10–20 hrs/week | Master’s Degree Required

Immediate hire only. Please DO NOT APPLY if you are looking for a salary or monthly stipend. This is primarily an educational opportunity.

Master’s Degree in Computer Science, DevOps, Systems Engineering, Information Technology, Software Engineering, or a closely related field preferred. Prior experience with Git, CI/CD pipelines, deployment workflows, or cloud hosting platforms is a plus.

About the Role

We are building a lean MVP platform using small, cross-functional squads. We're looking for a DevOps Engineer Intern to support the infrastructure, deployment workflows, release process, and environment reliability that keep our development organization running smoothly.

This role is focused on helping manage the technical delivery pipeline across the platform - including branch flow, CI/CD, staging and production deployments, release coordination, environment stability, and deployment troubleshooting. You will work closely with engineering, QA, Product Managers, Scrum Masters, and project leadership to help ensure code moves cleanly from development to staging to production.

This is a hands-on role for someone who wants real-world experience supporting live software delivery in a fast-moving MVP environment. You won't just be shadowing - you'll have real responsibility and ownership over critical parts of the deployment pipeline.

What You'll Do

• Help manage Git workflows across development, staging, production, feature branches, and hotfixes to keep code organized and release-ready at all times
• Support CI/CD setup and ongoing maintenance for both backend and frontend deployment pipelines, ensuring builds run reliably and efficiently
• Help ensure code is deployed consistently and correctly across all environments, including development, staging, and production
• Support release coordination by preparing environments, validating deployment readiness, and assisting with production rollout tasks and release checklists
• Monitor deployments and environment health to help identify failures, instability, downtime, or release issues quickly — before they impact the team
• Troubleshoot build failures, deployment errors, branch conflicts, environment misconfigurations, and release blockers with a methodical and detail-oriented approach
• Help improve release reliability by reducing manual deployment friction, identifying bottlenecks, and strengthening deployment processes over time

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• Assist with rollback preparedness, release safeguards, and deployment validation steps to reduce risk during production releases
• Support infrastructure and hosting workflows for services deployed across platforms such as Render, Vercel, VPS environments, or similar systems
• Help maintain deployment documentation, branch rules, CI/CD SOPs, environment setup instructions, and release procedures so the team always has clear, usable references
• Collaborate with engineers to ensure services are deployment-ready and aligned with environment-specific requirements before release
• Support QA and release workflows by helping ensure staging environments are stable, configured correctly, and ready for final validation
• Help surface infrastructure or deployment bottlenecks that could slow down squads or delay releases, and work with the team to address them proactively
• Contribute to automation efforts that improve deployment consistency, release speed, and overall operational reliability across the platform
• Assist with production support tasks, incident response follow-up, and release-related troubleshooting as needed during or after deployments

What We're Looking For

• Hands-on experience with Git and common branching workflows (feature branches, hotfixes, trunk-based development, or similar) in a real software development environment
• Familiarity with CI/CD concepts and tools such as GitHub Actions, CircleCI, GitLab CI, or similar deployment pipeline platforms
• Familiarity with cloud deployment platforms, hosting environments, or modern web application deployment workflows — experience with Render, Vercel, AWS, GCP, or similar is a plus
• Ability to troubleshoot technical issues related to builds, deployments, environment variables, branch conflicts, and pipeline failures with strong problem-solving instincts
• Strong attention to detail and comfort working with release processes, configuration management, and deployment checklists where precision matters
• Comfortable collaborating across cross-functional teams including engineers, QA, Scrum Masters, Product Managers, and project leadership in a remote environment
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple deployment tasks, track release status, and communicate blockers clearly
• Genuine interest in DevOps, deployment systems, release engineering, infrastructure support, and software reliability as a career path or area of study
• Familiarity with logs, monitoring tools, uptime checks, error tracking, or operational debugging is a plus
• Familiarity with Node.js, frontend deployment workflows, backend services, Docker, containerization, or modern web infrastructure is a plus

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• Master's student or graduate preferred in Computer Science, DevOps, Systems Engineering, Information Technology, Software Engineering, or a closely related field

Success Metrics

• Code moves through development, staging, and production with fewer deployment issues and delays.
• Build failures, environment issues, and release blockers are identified and resolved quickly.
• Deployment processes become more consistent, reliable, and easier for squads to work with.
• Staging and production environments remain stable and usable for QA and release workflows.
• Release support helps squads ship on time without unnecessary DevOps bottlenecks.
• Documentation for deployment workflows, branch management, and release procedures stays clear and usable for the team.

Internship Details

Duration: 4–6 months

Commitment: 10–20 hours per week

Location: 100% remote

Compensation: Unpaid internship

Purpose: Intended for academic credit, thesis alignment, or professional experience

Schedule: Flexible hours with real responsibility and ownership

This internship is designed for graduate-level candidates who want real-world experience in DevOps, CI/CD, release support, deployment workflows, environment management, and software delivery operations within a modern software development environment.