DevOps Engineer - Intern

COGNNA is redefining modern cybersecurity with Nexus, our Agentic AI SOC platform, and our Smart MDR services. We help organizations across the region and around the world cut alert noise, respond to incidents faster and stay compliant with frameworks such as SAMA, NCA, ISO 27001 and PCI DSS. Behind it all: AI-driven triage, deep automation and our elite 24/7 Guardians Team, delivering unified visibility and rapid threat containment across endpoint, cloud and network. As our DevOps Engineer Intern , you will learn by doing. You'll work alongside senior engineers to provision multi-cloud infrastructure, keep Kubernetes environments healthy, configure GitOps pipelines and support cloud security operations. This is not a shadow-only internship. From your first weeks, your automation, documentation and troubleshooting will directly improve the reliability of the platform our customers rely on. Responsibilities 1. Cloud operations (GCP & Alibaba Cloud) • Provision infrastructure: help provision and maintain cloud resources following cost-efficiency and security best practices. • Keep IAM clean: review access requests, update role definitions and manage service-account hygiene under guidance. • Watch costs: track utilization, spot unused or over-provisioned resources, filter logs and set up budget alerts. • Learn the network: navigate VPCs, firewall rules and private connectivity; support routine security patching and Vanta compliance tasks. 2. Kubernetes & containers (GKE) • Monitor cluster health: track status, resource usage and reliability metrics across development and staging clusters. • Troubleshoot: help investigate pod scheduling issues, container crashes and resource bottlenecks. • Partner with developers: learn and share containerization best practices, from Dockerfiles to multi-stage builds. • Shadow upgrades: join senior engineers during Kubernetes upgrades and maintenance windows. 3. CI/CD (ArgoCD & GitHub Actions) • Onboard services to GitOps: draft ArgoCD Application manifests, sync policies and environment configurations. • Catch drift: monitor ArgoCD for out-of-sync applications and flag them to the team. • Improve pipelines: integrate security scanners, linters and tests into GitHub Actions workflows. 4. Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) • Shadow migrations: learn how complex manual infrastructure is moved into code. • Write modules: build and maintain modular Terraform that brings unmanaged resources under version control. 5. Security & access operations • Manage access: handle developer SSH access, VPN profiles and environment credentials with full audit logging. • Harden the baseline: apply infrastructure hardening guidelines with our Security Engineers and join security reviews. • Support the Guardians: provide infrastructure logs and environment details during security investigations. 6. Monitoring, alerting & automation • Build dashboards: create and update Grafana and Cloud Monitoring dashboards for real-time visibility. • Write runbooks: draft and maintain runbooks and SOPs for common operational tasks, with mentor feedback. • Automate the toil: spot repetitive manual work and replace it with Bash or Python scripts and automated workflows.