DevOps Engineering Intern

Sarwa; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 33,480 - 55,800; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first and flexible work environment

Monthly stipend

Culture of growth and mentoring

Job summary

Sarwa is seeking a DevOps engineering intern in Abu Dhabi to strengthen our cloud infrastructure. As an intern, you'll be involved in auditing and improving Terraform state, provisioning AWS environments, and automating disaster recovery processes. This role offers hands-on experience with production-grade cloud infrastructure at a fintech company and includes mentorship from senior engineers. Enjoy a remote-first flexible work culture and monthly stipend.

Qualifications

• Currently pursuing or recently completed a relevant degree.
• Genuine interest in infrastructure automation and cloud architecture.
• Detail-oriented with strong problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Audit existing Terraform state and understand Infrastructure as Code philosophy.
• Provision sandbox account in AWS and deploy core networking.
• Participate in the Disaster Recovery Automation project.

Skills

Basic experience with Git

Linux CLI

Scripting in Python or Bash

Terraform

AWS networking

Kubernetes

Education

Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, IT

Tools

AWS

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

In 2017, our founders started Sarwa due to a lack of financial services offered to most of the world, and out of a need to help empower people in the region to invest in their financial future. Sarwa is poised to continue growing into the go‑to platform for people to grow their wealth.

We do this through expert, affordable and easy investing. We’re a small team working on the region’s first and fastest growing investment and personal finance platform, making investing easy, low‑cost and transparent, with a human touch woven into every step of the process.

We are a remote‑first team. Where you choose to work is up to you – we have an office in Abu Dhabi that you can utilize as often or little as you’d like.

Our infrastructure team is looking for a DevOps engineering intern to help strengthen Sarwa’s cloud infrastructure and disaster recovery capabilities. This is a high‑impact internship where you’ll audit and improve our Infrastructure as Code, provision sandbox environments in AWS, and contribute to automating our disaster recovery process – directly reducing our recovery time objective. You’ll be mentored by our DevOps Lead and gain hands‑on experience with production‑grade cloud infrastructure at a regulated fintech.

Who we’re looking for:

• Currently pursuing or recently completed a degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, IT, or a related field.
• Basic experience with Git, Linux CLI, and understanding of the request/response cycle.
• Eager to learn Terraform, AWS networking, and Kubernetes in a real production environment.
• Genuine interest in infrastructure automation, reliability engineering, and cloud architecture.
• Comfortable scripting in Python or Bash and willing to learn boto3 (AWS SDK).
• Strong problem‑solving skills and enjoy debugging complex, multi‑layered systems.
• Detail‑oriented and understand that in infrastructure, precision matters.
• Communicate clearly and can document processes so others can follow them with confidence.

What you’ll do:

• Audit existing Terraform state and understand Sarwa’s Infrastructure as Code philosophy.
• Provision a temporary Sandbox account within Sarwa’s AWS Organization, deploying core networking (VPC, Subnets) via Terraform to validate infrastructure portability across accounts and regions.
• Participate in the DR Automation project – helping automate regional failover and promotion workflows.
• Write and maintain automation scripts using boto3 for tasks that IaC cannot handle dynamically.
• Contribute to documentation: build a comprehensive, code‑backed DR Playbook that enables any engineer to trigger a regional failover with high confidence.
• Collaborate with the backend and platform teams to ensure infrastructure changes align with application requirements.
• Learn and apply cross‑region peering, multi‑account routing, and EKS deployment management.

Stack (experience that’s a plus)

• Terraform (state management, cross‑provider relationships)
• AWS (VPC, Organizations, EKS, IAM, Route53, multi‑region)
• Kubernetes / EKS
• Python and boto3 (AWS SDK)
• CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions or similar)
• Linux and shell scripting

Benefits

• Remote‑first and flexible work environment.
• Diverse, driven and supportive team with a positive work atmosphere.
• A culture of growth – being mentored, coached, and supported to grow in your career.
• Monthly stipend.

Sarwa is dedicated to hiring a diverse workforce with varied experiences, perspectives and opinions. We believe diversity helps our team excel and enables us to build outstanding products for our customers.