IT Infrastructure / Platform Services Intern

🔒 Confidential Employer
Posted 7 May 2026
LOCATION
London
TYPE
Temporary
LEVEL
Internship
CATEGORY
Technology
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SKILLS

Git AWS Terraform Kubernetes Python Bash CI/CD GitHub Actions

FULL DESCRIPTION

IT Infrastructure / Platform Services Intern

Company: [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] Limited
Location: 1 Angel Court, London EC2R 7HJ
Length: 8 weeks, 15th June - 7th August 2026
Hours: Monday to Friday, 9:00 - 17:00
Student Type: Penultimate or Final Year students
Suitable for: Computer Science, Software Engineering, Cloud Computing, Infrastructure Engineering, Cyber Security, DevOps, or related technical subjects

About the Role

This internship is designed to give early-career talent practical exposure to platform engineering, cloud infrastructure, and the tools used to support modern banking services. The role combines structured learning with a final project that allows the intern to contribute to a defined technical use case.

Main Duties & Responsibilities

  • Gain exposure to platform engineering practices, tools, and technologies used within the bank.
  • Learn version control fundamentals and GitHub workflows, including pull requests and code reviews.
  • Build understanding of AWS fundamentals, including IAM, S3, VPC, ingress, load balancing, and EC2.
  • Learn how infrastructure is built using Terraform, including modules and root configurations.
  • Gain exposure to observability practices including logging, metrics, alerting, and runbooks.
  • Learn CI/CD and GitOps fundamentals, including GitHub Actions.
  • Gain introductory exposure to containers and Kubernetes concepts.
  • Explore emerging technologies and relevant AI use cases in infrastructure.
  • Deliver a final project involving a real infrastructure component for a defined use case, from requirements gathering through to implementation, deployment, and documentation.

Students Will Gain

  • Practical exposure to cloud infrastructure in a real engineering environment.
  • Better understanding of DevOps, GitOps, observability, and infrastructure as code.
  • Experience thinking through architecture and implementation trade-offs.
  • Exposure to AWS, Terraform, CI/CD workflows, and Kubernetes concepts.
  • Experience collaborating with engineers on a defined technical use case.
  • Experience delivering and documenting a practical technical project.

Person Specification

  • Foundational understanding of software engineering or infrastructure concepts.
  • Familiarity with Git and basic command-line workflows.
  • Interest in cloud platforms, infrastructure as code, automation, or DevOps.
  • Ability to learn technical concepts quickly and apply them in practice.
  • Curiosity and a strong desire to learn.
  • Good problem-solving and critical-thinking skills.
  • Ability to communicate clearly with technical stakeholders.
  • Strong attention to detail.
  • Accountability and willingness to take ownership of tasks.

Nice to Have

  • Exposure to AWS, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions, or CI/CD concepts.
  • Experience with scripting or coding in Python, Bash, or a similar language.
  • Interest in platform engineering, site reliability, cloud operations, or infrastructure security.
  • Awareness of AI-native tools or modern engineering workflows.
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