Cloud Engineering Intern
About The Position
At ModMed, we’re not just building software—we’re reimagining the healthcare experience. Founded in 2010 by a practicing physician and a successful tech entrepreneur, we took a radically different approach: we hired doctors and taught them how to code. This "for doctors, by doctors" philosophy has allowed us to create an AI-enabled, specialty-specific cloud platform that places patients at the center of care. A Culture of Excellence When you join ModMed, you’re joining an award-winning team recognized for innovation and employee satisfaction. From our global headquarters in Boca Raton Florida, and extensive employee base in Hyderabad India, we are a team of 4,500+ passionate problem-solvers on a mission to increase medical practice success and improve patient outcomes: Consistently ranked as a Top Place to Work 2025 Globee Business Awards: Gold Globee for “Technology Team of the Year” 2025 Black Book Awards: Ranked #1 EHR in 11 Specialties Florida Venture Forum: Venture-Backed Company of the Year We are growing fast, thinking big, and we are just getting started. Ready to modernize medicine with us? ModMed is hiring a Cloud Engineer Intern. You will be an essential part of the team, supporting the core cloud infrastructure to ensure it is secure, scalable, and cost-efficient. This role focuses on helping the team with automation, performance, and reliability initiatives, providing hands-on experience in building smarter, cloud-native solutions and contributing to projects that improve how our team operates.
Requirements
- Currently enrolled in a Bachelor’s/Master’s program in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related technical field.
- Coursework or foundational understanding of Cloud Computing or Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles.
- Familiarity with AWS services gained through academic projects, personal use, or coursework.
- Willingness to learn and basic exposure to technologies like DataDog, Terraform, Kubernetes, and Jenkins.
- Basic scripting skills in Python, Bash, or another common language.
- Foundational understanding of networking, cloud security, and CI/CD concepts.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills to effectively work within an agile team.
Responsibilities
- Assist with AWS Infrastructure: Support the engineering team in daily operations, focusing on the security, scalability, and cost optimization of our AWS environment.
- Contribute to Team Initiatives: Take ownership of smaller improvement projects that enhance team efficiency, documentation, or tooling.
- Monitor & Observe: Help implement and analyze basic metrics using DataDog to ensure system health and aid in proactive issue detection.
- Support Developer Enablement: Help document and standardize infrastructure components to promote developer self-service through tools like GitOps.
- Contribute to CI/CD: Assist with the maintenance and testing of CI/CD pipelines utilizing Jenkins, Github, and AWS services for reliable software deployment.
- Learn Containerization: Contribute to projects involving container orchestration with Kubernetes, learning best practices for improving application efficiency.
- Explore Cloud Optimization: Assist in resource tuning and analysis to identify opportunities for cloud performance improvement and cost savings.
- Observe Incident Response: Shadow senior engineers during troubleshooting to understand how production issues are diagnosed and resolved.
- Apply Security Basics: Learn and help apply fundamental security best practices to meet compliance and data protection standards.
- Stay Informed: Research new cloud technologies and share findings with the team to recommend potential improvements.
- Collaborate and Learn: Work closely with cross-functional teams to understand business needs and support the building of AWS-based solutions.
Benefits
- United States Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits, including a company Health Savings Account contribution
- 401(k): ModMed provides a matching contribution each payday of 50% of your contribution deferred on up to 6% of your compensation. After one year of employment with ModMed, 100% of any matching contribution you receive is yours to keep.
- Generous Paid Time Off and Paid Parental Leave programs
- Company paid Life and Disability benefits
- Flexible Spending Account, and Employee Assistance Programs
- Company-sponsored Business Resource & Special Interest Groups that provide engaged and supportive communities within ModMed
- Professional development opportunities, including tuition reimbursement programs and unlimited access to LinkedIn Learning
- Global presence and in-person collaboration opportunities; dog-friendly HQ (US)
- Hybrid office-based roles and remote availability for some roles
- Weekly catered breakfast and lunch, treadmill workstations, Zen, and wellness rooms within our BRIC headquarters.
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