Job Overview

About Emeritus and Daskalos Initiative

Emeritus is a global leader in making world-class education accessible and affordable to learners across the globe. Through strategic tie-ups with more than 80 elite universities worldwide (including MIT, Columbia, Harvard, and Cambridge), Emeritus builds cutting-edge courses, diplomas, and executive education tracks. To date, it has served over 300,000 students across 80+ countries.

Under its strategic umbrella sits Daskalos, an ambitious initiative focused on transnational education in India. Daskalos collaborates with top-tier international universities to set up integrated campuses in India under the updated regulatory ecosystem. Working here gives you direct access to high-impact educational platforms serving hundreds of thousands of learners every single day.

Role & What You Will Do

As a DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Intern, you will play a key role in building, automating, and maintaining the cloud infrastructure behind high-traffic learning platforms. You will work closely with senior engineering architects to bridge the gap between application developers and cloud operations.

Here is a detailed look at your day-to-day responsibilities:

• CI/CD Pipeline Automation: Help build and optimize Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines to ensure seamless, bug-free, and rapid code releases to production and staging environments.
• Cloud Infrastructure Management: Assist in provisioning and maintaining resources on AWS and Google Cloud Platform (GCP), adhering to high availability and uptime standards.
• System Monitoring & Observability: Track infrastructure health, system metrics, and application logs using modern observability and APM tools to detect bottlenecks before they impact end users.
• Environment Troubleshooting: Coordinate with developer teams to debug staging, testing, and production environment anomalies quickly.
• Task Automation: Write clean Bash and Python scripts to automate daily operational routines and administrative tasks.
• Technical Documentation: Maintain clear setup guides, architecture diagrams, deployment runbooks, and incident response procedures.

Eligibility Criteria

• Educational Qualification: Current college students in their final/pre-final years or recent graduates with a Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Electronics, or any related quantitative stream.
• Graduation Batches: 2024, 2025, and 2026 batch candidates are eligible to apply.
• Work Experience: Freshers with strong academic projects or previous internship exposure in Cloud/Linux/DevOps tools are welcome.
• Location Availability: Must be willing to work in or relocate to the Mumbai Metropolitan Region.

Key Skills & Technical Stack Breakdown

Selection & Interview Process

1. Profile Shortlisting: Initial screening based on your resume, projects on GitHub, and demonstrated interest in cloud systems.
2. Technical Assessment / Discussion: An online evaluation or initial technical call covering Linux basics, networking fundamentals, and simple scripting exercises.
3. Technical Round with Senior SREs: Deep dive into real-world troubleshooting scenarios, cloud concepts, CI/CD pipeline structures, and container handling.
4. HR / Culture Fit Discussion: Conversation with the Talent Acquisition team regarding availability, communication skills, learning enthusiasm, and internship duration.

Tips for Freshers to Ace This Interview

• Highlight any personal homelab setups, AWS Free Tier experiments, or Dockerized projects directly in your resume.
• Brush up on Linux commands (file permissions, process management, logs analysis, curl/grep/awk).
• Be ready to explain how a continuous integration pipeline (like GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or Jenkins) works from code commit to container deployment.

How to Apply

Interested and eligible candidates can submit their applications directly through the official posting link below. Ensure your resume clearly reflects your skills in Cloud, Linux, Docker, and Scripting before hitting apply.