Cloud Infrastructure Intern - GPSU/NE
GuidePoint Security13 hours ago
Remote, United StatesIntern
H1B sponsor
Responsibilities
- Assist with designing and deploying multi-cloud lab environments across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform using Terraform and Ansible.
- Contribute to CI/CD pipeline development with GitHub Actions to provision, configure, and tear down lab environments.
- Write, test, and maintain reusable infrastructure-as-code modules in a version-controlled environment.
- Support security-tool proof-of-concept and proof-of-value engagements from requirements through teardown.
- Maintain version-controlled technical documentation and runbooks for repeatable lab operations.
- Support security-tool evaluations involving vulnerability management, CNAPP, EDR, application security, and AI security products.
- Assist with agentic harnesses that exercise vendor products against client-defined test cases and integrate with AI and LLM APIs.
- Document test cases, contribute to findings reports, and participate in client walkthroughs under mentorship.
Requirements
- Hands-on experience with at least one IaC tool, such as Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation, or an equivalent tool.
- Current enrollment or recent graduation with a degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field is preferred.
- Exposure to Python, Bash, or similar scripting or programming languages, with interest in automation and infrastructure.
- Interest in cloud infrastructure, DevOps practices, and security-tool evaluation.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills for technical documentation and client-facing materials.
- Technical aptitude and comfort building real infrastructure in a fast-paced, practitioner-led environment.
- Eastern or Central time-zone location is preferred.
- Applicants must be physically located in the United States throughout the internship and have a personal computing device and high-speed internet access.
- The role is unavailable to candidates living in Alaska, California, Hawaii, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Washington, or Wyoming.
Benefits
- Part-time, remote, paid internship running for 12 weeks.
- Potential for full-time employment at the conclusion of the internship.
- Work 25–29 hours per week, Monday through Friday, supporting the Eastern Time Zone.
- Remote work requires U.S. location, a personal computing device, and high-speed internet access.
- Full-time employees may receive medical and dental insurance, 12 corporate holidays, flexible time off, mobile-phone and home-internet allowances, retirement-plan eligibility, and pet benefits; these perks do not apply to the internship.
About GuidePoint Security
GuidePoint Security provides cybersecurity consulting, managed services, and value-added reselling/integration of security products for enterprises and U.S. public-sector agencies. Its teams deliver assessments, penetration testing, cloud and application security, identity and access management, endpoint and network protection, and governance services. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Reston, Virginia, the privately held company serves Fortune 500 organizations and cabinet-level federal agencies.