DevOps Engineer Internship

About The Job

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

• Help manage Git workflows across development, staging, production, feature branches, and hotfixes.
• Support CI/CD setup and maintenance for backend and frontend deployment pipelines.
• Help ensure code is deployed reliably across environments, including development, staging, and production.
• Support release coordination by preparing environments, validating deployment readiness, and assisting with production rollout tasks.
• Monitor deployments and environment health to help identify failures, instability, downtime, or release issues quickly.
• Troubleshoot build failures, deployment errors, branch issues, environment misconfigurations, and release blockers.
• Help improve release reliability by reducing manual deployment friction and strengthening deployment processes.
• Assist with rollback preparedness, release safeguards, and deployment validation steps.
• Support infrastructure and hosting workflows for services deployed across platforms such as Render, Vercel, VPS environments, or related systems.
• Help maintain deployment documentation, branch rules, CI/CD SOPs, environment setup instructions, and release procedures for internal team use.
• Collaborate with engineers to make sure services are deployment-ready and aligned with environment requirements.
• Support QA and release workflows by helping ensure staging environments are stable and usable for final validation.
• Help surface infrastructure or deployment bottlenecks that could slow down squads or delay releases.
• Contribute to automation efforts that improve deployment consistency, release speed, and operational reliability.
• Assist with production support tasks, incident response follow-up, and release-related troubleshooting as needed.

• Experience with Git and common branching workflows in a software development environment.
• Familiarity with CI/CD concepts and tools such as GitHub Actions or similar deployment pipelines.
• Familiarity with cloud deployment platforms, hosting environments, or modern web application deployment workflows.
• Ability to troubleshoot technical issues related to builds, deployments, environment variables, branch conflicts, and pipeline failures.
• Strong attention to detail and comfort working with release processes, configuration, and deployment checklists.
• Comfortable collaborating with engineers, QA, Scrum Masters, Product Managers, and project leadership.
• Strong organizational and technical problem-solving skills.
• Interest in DevOps, deployment systems, release engineering, infrastructure support, and software reliability.
• Familiarity with logs, monitoring, uptime checks, error tracking, or operational debugging is a plus.
• Familiarity with Node.js, frontend deployment workflows, backend services, Docker, or modern web infrastructure is a plus.
• Master’s student or graduate in Computer Science, DevOps, Systems Engineering, Information Technology, Software Engineering, or a related field preferred.
• Unpaid internship role, 10–20 hours per week, flexible.

• 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.

Duration: 3–6 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.