Founding Cloud & Platform Engineering Intern

About Honest Cyber

Honest Cyber is a cybersecurity consultancy building its own technology-driven Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC) platform. The company is in its early build stages, with established platform requirements, architecture, technical plans, and implementation procedures. They are seeking a hands-on engineering intern to turn these plans into a working cloud 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 optimize 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 optimize GitHub repositories, branching strategies, and workflows.

• Improve repository organization, 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.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• 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 optimization.
• Cloud security monitoring and cost optimization.
• Experience deploying real applications on AWS.
• Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools.

Qualifications

• Recent graduates, and self-taught engineers with strong practical cloud engineering skills.
• Demonstrated ability to independently deploy AWS infrastructure.
• Experience using Terraform to provision resources.
• Experience configuring secure networking.
• Experience implementing backup and recovery.

Additional Information

• The initial commitment would be for a period of 2-3 months with a possibility of a full-time conversion.
• Stipend: Rs 5000 to Rs 10000/month based on experience.
• You'll work directly with the founder.
• You'll own technical execution while working within established architecture, security, testing, and production approval processes.

By the end of the internship, successful candidates will have:

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