DevOps and Cloud Deployment Internship

Company Description

KaaryaConnect is hiring a DevOps & Cloud Deployment Intern! Join our ambitious team building a high-trust local-services marketplace in India bookings, vendor onboarding, scheduling, and payments. We're mobile-first, reliable, and simple. We keep scope tight, ship fast, and prioritize real user value over bells & whistles.

Role Description

This is a remote role for a DevOps and Cloud Deployment Intern. The intern will be responsible for day-to-day tasks including software development, continuous integration, managing Kubernetes clusters, and working within a Linux environment. The intern will gain exposure to a variety of cloud platforms and develop skills in automated deployment and integration processes.

Compensation & Benefits

• Stipend: 6k10k / month
• Bonus: Performance-based (MVP milestones & reliability KPIs)
• Work setup: Remote-first, occasional Hyderabad meetups
• Time off & perks: Flexible PTO + local holidays

Role Description

A DevOps & Cloud Deployment Intern works with senior engineers to automate builds, tests, and releases; manage cloud resources; and improve reliability. You'll get hands-on with Docker, pipelines, environments (dev/stage/prod), logging/monitoring, backups, and basic securitylearning modern SRE/DevOps practices by doing.

Day-to-Day Responsibilities

• CI/CD: Build and maintain pipelines (lint, unit/integration tests, build, deploy, rollback)
• Containerization: Package services with Docker; manage images & registries
• Cloud Deployments: Assist with AWS/GCP provisioning, blue/green or canary releases
• Infra as Code: Contribute Terraform/YAML to define reproducible infra
• Monitoring & Logs: Set up alerts/dashboards (e.g., CloudWatch/Stackdriver, Prometheus/Grafana), app & infra logs
• Env Management: Keep dev/stage/prod configs and secrets organized (e.g., SSM/Secrets Manager)
• Reliability: Help with runbooks, health checks, backups, and recovery drills
• Security Basics: Patch images, least-privilege IAM, dependency scanning, key rotation
• Cost Hygiene: Track usage, right-size instances, tag resources
• Collaboration: Work with backend/frontend to unblock releases; document changes

Qualifications

• Coursework in CS/IT/Software or equivalent projects
• Familiar with Linux, basic shell, and Git/GitHub
• Exposure to CI/CD tools (GitHub Actions/GitLab CI/Bitbucket Pipelines)
• Basics of Docker and one cloud (AWS/GCP/Azure)
• Understanding of networking (HTTP, DNS, TLS), REST APIs, and config management
• Curiosity, ownership, and clear communication

Tools You'll Touch (as relevant)

GitHub, GitHub Actions, Docker, AWS (EC2/ECS/EKS/S3/IAM/CloudWatch) or GCP (GKE/Cloud Run/Compute/Logging), Terraform, simple CD strategies (blue/green, canary), secrets managers.

What Success Looks Like (36 months)

• Reliable pipeline from PR deploy with rollback
• Containerized services with tagged, reproducible builds
• Basic dashboards/alerts for latency, errors, CPU/mem, and cost
• Clear runbooks and checklists for releases/incidents