Site Reliability Engineer Intern

Duties and Responsibilities

• System Reliability: Assist in the design, implementation, and continuous improvement of system reliability, availability, and performance by defining and monitoring SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets.
• Monitoring and Observability: Support building and managing a robust monitoring framework using Prometheus, Grafana, and Loki to track latency, traffic, errors, and system health.
• Infrastructure Automation: Assist in automating infrastructure provisioning and scaling using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles with Terraform and Kubernetes.
• Incident Management: Participate in incident response processes, including detection, escalation, resolution, and conducting blameless postmortems.
• Efficiency and Optimization: Reduce manual operational workload through automation, scripting, and process optimization to improve release velocity.
• Collaboration: Work with Engineering, Product, and DevOps teams to improve deployment safety, capacity planning, and cost optimization.
• Standards: Assist in establishing alerting strategies and reliability standards that minimize alert fatigue while ensuring rapid resolution of production issues.

Required Knowledge, Qualifications, and Experience

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• Some exposure to Kubernetes and Cloud networking.
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools.
• Good exposure to managing production systems in cloud environments (AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud).
• Understanding of CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, or equivalent).
• Familiarity with containerization tools like Docker.
• Basic hands-on exposure to monitoring and metrics systems such as Prometheus and dashboarding tools like Grafana.
• Foundational understanding of log aggregation systems such as Loki.
• Familiarity with Linux environments and basic system commands.
• Exposure to scripting concepts using Python, Bash, or similar languages.
• Foundational knowledge of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and AI agents; relevant certifications in AI are an added advantage.

How to Apply

Interested candidates should send their resume and portfolio with the subject SITE RELIABILITY ENGINEER INTERN to recruiting@interintel.co.ke. The submission deadline is 9th March 2026.