You automate the Microsoft Azure cloud, containerise applications with Docker and Kubernetes and improve the developer environment at Alten’s Sophia-Antipolis Lab.
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You join the Sophia-Antipolis Lab of Alten’s Innovation Department on the Op DevOps project. The team is upgrading its cloud environments and modernising its applications.
With support from an innovation lead, you work on Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes and standardised developer workstations. You also write technical documentation.
The internship lasts six months at the Sophia-Antipolis Lab (Valbonne), with a stipend of 1,300 euros gross per month, meal vouchers and transport costs covered. A job offer may be considered at the end of the internship.
What you'll do
- Microsoft Azure cloud administration and automation: managing and monitoring Azure resources
- Microsoft Azure cloud administration and automation: helping set up and improve cloud architectures
- Microsoft Azure cloud administration and automation: automating recurring tasks with scripts and Infrastructure as Code
- Microsoft Azure cloud administration and automation: contributing to monitoring, security and optimisation of cloud resources
- Containerisation and orchestration: helping teams containerise existing applications
- Containerisation and orchestration: building and optimising Docker images
- Containerisation and orchestration: helping set up CI/CD pipelines
- Containerisation and orchestration: deploying and running applications on Kubernetes platforms
- Containerisation and orchestration: helping improve deployment and operations processes
- Improving the developer environment: defining and maintaining standardised development environments
- Improving the developer environment: implementing solutions based on WSL, Docker and related tools
- Improving the developer environment: automating the installation and setup of developer workstations
- Improving the developer environment: writing technical documentation and user guides
Who they're looking for
- Studying computer science, systems, DevOps or cloud
- Ideally, knowledge of Docker and Docker Compose
- Ideally, knowledge of Kubernetes
- Ideally, knowledge of Git
- Ideally, knowledge of Linux
- Ideally, knowledge of WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux)
- Ideally, scripting in Bash, Python and PowerShell
- Ideally, Python development and dependency management (uv or Poetry)
- A plus: Terraform, Microsoft Azure, Azure DevOps
Prepare your interview
- Learn what Alten does, the sector it works in and the projects on its website.
- Go through each task listed here and work out why the team needs it done.
- Prepare a real example for each task, then tie it back to what the company does.
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