DevOps Intern

• Check out our values-driven benefits below!

Join us at Vera Solutions, where innovation meets purpose. We’re a forward-thinking tech company dedicated to creating digital solutions that drive significant social change. We run on passion, blending diverse skill sets and experiences with a collective mission to help organizations tackle challenges and achieve greater impact. As a social enterprise and certified B Corporation, we reinvest a majority of our profits in our growth and continued pursuit of our mission and vision.

Position Overview

The DevOps Intern will be part of a growing Development/Products team. The Intern will support and contribute to the design and implementation of new features in all of Vera’s products, with a particular focus on the automation, reliability, and security of the pipelines that deliver them.

Because Vera’s products hold sensitive programme and beneficiary data for social impact organizations, security is not a separate discipline here, it sits inside the delivery pipeline. The Intern will learn how secure development practices are embedded into CI/CD rather than added after the fact.

The Intern should bring a desire to learn new technologies and processes, and an eagerness to develop new skills.

The Intern will join a team of passionate individuals with diverse backgrounds and experiences, all dedicated to improving the way social impact organizations operate. We’re a self-motivated, creative group, and we emphasize collaboration, flexibility, and professionalism.

Primary Responsibilities:

DevOps

• Support the engineering team by researching and testing CI/CD automations and tooling
• Support the DevOps Lead in researching DevOps best practices to ensure Vera engineering is at the leading edge of CI/CD best practices
• Work closely with Engineering team members to improve and automate repetitive and inefficient processes
• Follow and contribute to internal best practices, commit to improving upon and learning new skills, and keep up to date with industry trends and developments

Cybersecurity

• Help integrate automated security checks into CI/CD pipelines, including static code analysis (SAST) and third-party dependency/vulnerability scanning
• Support secrets management practices, assist in auditing repositories and pipelines for hard-coded credentials and helping migrate them to a secrets vault
• Assist with routine access reviews across source control, CI/CD tooling, and cloud environments, applying the principle of least privilege
• Support periodic security reviews, including Health Check, profile and permission set audits, and sharing model checks
• Help triage and document findings from automated scans, tracking remediation alongside the engineering team
• Contribute to internal security documentation, checklists, and awareness material for the wider team
• Assist with incident response drills and support the team in following established escalation procedures

Qualifications and Experience

• Relevant coursework in Computer Engineering / Computer Science / BSc. I.T.
• Basic understanding of CI/CD concepts
• Awareness of common application security concepts, such as the OWASP Top 10, authentication and authorization, and safe handling of credentials
• Demonstrated success working in a team, self-management and proactive communication
• Excellent written and verbal communication and relational skills
• Excellent organizational skills and a passion for fine details
• Diligent work ethic and proven ability to work with drive and enthusiasm
• Insatiable desire to improve skills and knowledge of self and others
• Able to commit to a 1 year internship
• Basic knowledge of cloud DevOps (Azure DevOps, AWS DevOps)
• Exposure to security tooling or practices, e.g. static/dynamic analysis (SonarQube, CodeQL, Checkmarx, PMD), dependency scanning (Dependabot, Snyk, OWASP Dependency-Check), secrets management (GitHub Secrets, HashiCorp Vault, AWS Secrets Manager), or identity and access management, MFA, and least-privilege access models
• Awareness of data protection and privacy frameworks (India DPDP Act, GDPR) or security standards such as ISO 27001 or SOC 2
• Interest in social service work or international development
• Foundations in source control (GitHub, GitLab), CI/CD (CircleCI, Jenkins), or testing frameworks (Robot, Jest)

A modest stipend will be provided to help offset cost of living and commuting expenses (if applicable).

Paid Time Off

PTO days are prorated in accordance with your internship agreement and includes local and company-wide holidays.

Wellness Leave

We do not cap sick leave. If you’re sick, we hope you get better!

Vera Solutions is committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive environment and encourages applicants from underrepresented backgrounds to apply.

What makes Vera such a great place to work?

Our Values

In everything we do, we’re guided by our core values: Excellence, Sustainability, Teamwork, Leadership, and Impact

Our Mission

As a certified B Corporation, we meet the highest social and environmental standards in pursuit of our mission.

Our Global Team

Our wonderfully diverse team spans 5 continents and speaks more than 15 different languages.

We are invested in and committed to making training, learning, and development one of Vera’s signature strengths.

Diversity & Inclusion

We value our culture of diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We bring our full selves to work and position each other to thrive.

We run an annual leadership development initiative for emerging leaders at Vera.