Intern, Devops Engineering, Product Operations

TL;DR

Intern, Devops Engineering, Product Operations: Supporting the Product Operations team in building and maintaining infrastructure and delivery platforms with an accent on cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines. Focus on gaining hands-on experience with modern DevOps and platform engineering practices while contributing to systems that power automated scientific analysis, experiment orchestration, and ML pipelines.

Location: Cambridge, MA USA

Company

hirify.global is the world’s first scientific superintelligence platform and autonomous lab for life, chemistry, and materials science.

What you will do

• Assist with maintaining and improving Kubernetes-based infrastructure supporting scientific services and platform workloads.
• Help build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, including container image builds and automated testing.
• Write and update infrastructure-as-code using Terraform and Helm charts under the guidance of senior engineers.
• Support AWS cloud infrastructure tasks across services such as EKS, IAM, S3, ECR, and VPC networking.
• Contribute to automation scripts and tooling in Python or Bash to improve infrastructure operations.
• Assist with monitoring, logging, and observability tooling to help maintain system reliability.

Requirements

• Currently pursuing a Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field.
• Foundational knowledge of Linux systems and command-line/Bash scripting.
• Basic understanding of Python programming for scripting and automation.
• Familiarity with version control using Git and GitHub workflows.
• Exposure to cloud computing concepts (AWS preferred) through coursework or personal projects.
• Basic understanding of containers (Docker) and container orchestration concepts.

Nice to have

• Hands-on experience with AWS services (EC2, S3, IAM, EKS) through labs, coursework, or personal projects.
• Familiarity with Terraform, Helm, or other infrastructure-as-code tools.
• Exposure to Kubernetes (Minikube, Kind, or managed clusters).
• Experience with CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions or GitLab CI.
• Interest in or coursework related to site reliability engineering, security, or platform engineering.

Culture & Benefits

• Committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status.