Program Intern, Cloud Operations
Pilot Flying J
About the Role
Pilot Company is seeking a Cloud Operations Intern for the summer of 2027 in Knoxville, Tennessee. This internship offers hands-on experience supporting cloud infrastructure and application migration efforts.
Key Responsibilities
- Support cloud migration initiatives: Assist with migrating applications and infrastructure from on-premises data centers into AWS.
- Maintain cloud platforms: Contribute to the ongoing support, monitoring, and maintenance of Pilot's AWS environment and hosted applications.
- Develop and automate solutions: Write and maintain code using Python and Terraform for infrastructure automation, platform enhancements, and operational efficiencies.
- Provide operational support: Monitor ServiceNow tickets, troubleshoot issues, participate in break-fix activities, and help resolve cloud-related incidents.
- Collaborate across teams: Partner with application teams across Energy, Retail, and Supply Chain to onboard applications to the cloud and implement platform guardrails and best practices.
Requirements & Tech Stack
- Python (required)
- Terraform (highly preferred)
- Git repositories (highly preferred)
- AWS cloud technologies (highly preferred)
- Linux operating systems (highly preferred)
- ServiceNow (exposure for ticket monitoring)
Qualifications
- Education: Currently pursuing an undergraduate degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related technical field. Rising seniors are preferred.
- Soft Skills: Strong communication and collaboration skills, ability to build relationships across multiple teams, energetic, adaptable, and comfortable working in a fast-paced environment.
- Qualities: Passion for technology and cloud computing, desire to learn, eagerness to contribute to a collaborative team.
Internship Dates: June 7 – August 13, 2027 (full-time, in-person)
Location: Knoxville, TN