DevOps Intern

<h3>About Alta Ares</h3><p style="min-height:1.5em"><br />Alta Ares is an air defense Neoprime. We build AI-guided interceptors to counter drones and cruise missiles, along with the software platform that powers them.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">Our customers are NATO-aligned militaries and defense institutions, and our systems are regularly deployed during live exercises and operational demonstrations across Europe, the Middle East, and Asia.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">Founded in 2024, we have grown to 90 people, raised over $60M, and increased revenue 40× this year. We are now entering a new phase of international expansion, industrial scaling, fundraising, and product development.</p><h1>Role &amp; Mission</h1><p style="min-height:1.5em">DevOps at Alta Ares is a transverse position. The team operates as an internal consulting team: we provision and automate the tooling every project relies on, and we work directly with product teams to help them get the system, networking and security fundamentals right.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">As a DevOps Intern, you will work across the full spread of our infrastructure: cloud, bare metal and IoT. One week you may be building automation that every engineer uses daily; the next, you may be running a proof of concept on deploying cloud technologies onto a tactical platform, where the usual assumptions about connectivity, hardware and security no longer hold.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">You will report to the DevOps Lead and work alongside Software, Machine Learning and MLOps Engineers. This internship suits students who want real infrastructure ownership rather than ticket-shaped work, and who are curious about what changes when systems have to run in the field instead of in a datacenter.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><h1>Your responsibilities</h1><h2>Infrastructure &amp; Automation</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Build and maintain multi-platform infrastructure across cloud (GCP, Scaleway, …), bare metal and IoT/edge devices.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Write and improve infrastructure-as-code with Terraform, Ansible and Packer.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Provision and operate Kubernetes workloads.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Automate repetitive operational work so that engineers can self-serve.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p></li></ul><h2>CI/CD &amp; Developer Tooling</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines on GitHub Actions.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Improve build, packaging and release workflows across projects.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Contribute to the common tooling used by every engineering team at Alta Ares.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p></li></ul><h2>Internal Consulting &amp; Architecture Support</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Work with project teams to apply sound architectural patterns from a system, networking and security perspective.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Take part in refactoring and consulting work on subjects the DevOps team owns.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Document decisions and share practices so improvements outlive a single project.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p></li></ul><h2>R&amp;T, De-risking &amp; Tactical Platforms</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Run proofs of concept and de-risking studies: the team works a little like an internal R&amp;T lab.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Explore how cloud-native technologies can be integrated onto tactical and embedded platforms.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Report findings clearly so they can feed into product and infrastructure decisions.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p></li></ul><h2>Requirements</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Engineering student in Software, Networking or Cybersecurity, looking for a 6-month internship or a 1-year apprenticeship.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Solid scripting skills, and Python in particular.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Good understanding of Docker and containerized environments; Kubernetes is a strong plus.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Familiarity with CI/CD on GitHub or GitLab.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Comfortable with Linux.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Knowledge of a cloud platform (GCP, AWS, Azure or Scaleway) is a plus, as is exposure to infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Ansible).</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Professional working English; French-speaking candidates preferred. </p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">This role is on-site.</p></li></ul><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><p style="min-height:1.5em">We do not expect you to arrive knowing our whole stack. 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