Founding Cloud & Platform Engineering Intern

About Honest Cyber

Honest Cyber is a cybersecurity consultancy building a technology-driven Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC) platform.

What You'll Work On

• AWS Cloud Infrastructure
• Build, configure, and deploy AWS infrastructure based on established architecture and technical requirements.
• Set up VPCs, subnets, routing, security groups, and network access controls.
• Configure compute, hosting, databases, storage, and supporting cloud services.
• Establish monitoring, logging, and alerting.
• Troubleshoot infrastructure issues and optimise for performance, reliability, security, and cost.
• Terraform & Infrastructure Automation
• Provision and manage AWS infrastructure using Terraform.
• Develop and maintain reusable, version-controlled infrastructure configurations.
• Manage Terraform state, dependencies, and controlled infrastructure changes.
• Automate repeatable deployment and configuration tasks.
• Validate infrastructure deployments against defined requirements.
• IAM & Cloud Security
• Configure IAM roles, policies, and least-privilege access.
• Implement secure communication between cloud services.
• Configure network, storage, and infrastructure security controls.
• Identify and remediate security misconfigurations.
• Apply existing security standards and implementation procedures.
• Backup, Recovery & Resilience
• Implement backup and recovery for AWS infrastructure, databases, and storage.
• Configure backup schedules, retention policies, and recovery mechanisms.
• Automate backup monitoring and failure alerts.
• Conduct restoration tests to verify recoverability.
• Maintain technical documentation and evidence of successful recovery testing.
• GitHub, DevOps & Repository Optimisation
• Maintain and optimise GitHub repositories, branching strategies, and workflows.
• Improve repository organisation, maintainability, and access controls.
• Configure GitHub Actions and CI/CD pipelines.
• Automate infrastructure validation, testing, and deployment processes.
• Implement secure development and version-control practices.
• GRC Platform Deployment & Integration
• Deploy the GRC engine and its supporting services into the AWS environment.
• Configure application hosting, storage, networking, and database connectivity.
• Integrate infrastructure components according to established implementation plans.
• Troubleshoot deployment and integration failures.
• Validate that the deployed environment functions as intended and meets documented requirements.

What We're Looking For

• Practical, hands-on AWS experience.
• Strong working knowledge of Terraform and Infrastructure as Code.
• Understanding of AWS networking: VPCs, subnets, routing, security groups, and network controls.
• Experience configuring IAM roles, policies, and secure access.
• Understanding of cloud hosting, storage, and infrastructure deployment.
• Familiarity with backup and recovery implementation, including restoration testing.
• Confidence with Git, GitHub, and repository management.
• Ability to independently troubleshoot technical issues and deliver working solutions.

Good to have:

• Experience with EC2, S3, RDS, CloudWatch, AWS Backup, and related services.
• Linux administration, Docker, and GitHub Actions.
• Python scripting and infrastructure automation.
• PostgreSQL and database deployment.
• CI/CD pipeline implementation and optimisation.
• Cloud security monitoring and cost optimisation.
• Experience deploying real applications on AWS.
• Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools.

What Makes This Internship Different?

You'll work directly with the founder to build the technical foundation of a real cybersecurity platform. Your responsibility is to turn defined plans into a working cloud platform. You'll have the opportunity to independently drive engineering tasks, configure cloud environments, automate deployments, resolve real infrastructure problems, and implement reliable backup and recovery mechanisms. You'll own technical execution while working within established architecture, security, testing, and production approval processes.

What Success Looks Like

• AWS infrastructure deployed and configured according to the approved architecture.
• Infrastructure managed through maintainable Terraform configurations.
• Secure networking, storage, IAM, and hosting environments.
• Backup and recovery mechanisms implemented and successfully tested.
• Well-organised GitHub repositories and reliable deployment workflows.
• The GRC platform deployed and its infrastructure integrations validated.
• Clear documentation and demonstrable engineering deliverables.

Who Should Apply?

Recent graduates, and self-taught engineers with strong practical cloud engineering skills. We are looking for individuals who have independently deployed AWS infrastructure, used Terraform to provision resources, configured secure networking, or implemented backup and recovery.