Platform & SRE Intern (Engineering)

About the role

Rakuten TV, a streaming platform available in 42 European countries, is looking for a Platform & SRE intern in Barcelona. The role sits within the engineering team and covers operational support, infrastructure management, observability, automation and CI/CD collaboration.

Key responsibilities

• Operational support: assist the team with daily operational tickets and gain hands-on experience with incident response and system troubleshooting.
• Infrastructure management: learn and apply Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with Terraform and CloudFormation to manage the AWS environment.
• Observability: help maintain and improve the monitoring stack (Prometheus, Grafana and Splunk).
• Automation: write scripts in Python and Bash to automate repetitive tasks and reduce manual toil.
• CI/CD collaboration: support deployment pipelines via GitHub Actions and work with product and engineering teams.
• Agile participation: take part in daily stand-ups, sprint planning and retrospectives.

Required profile

• Final-year Bachelor's student in Computer Science, Telecommunications or a related technical field.
• Interest in distributed systems, cloud architecture and the inner workings of high-traffic applications.
• Proactive, communicative and growth-minded, able to explain technical problems and solutions in English.
• Comfortable starting with basic knowledge and eager to learn through mentorship and self-study.

Required skills

• Exposure to Linux and basic scripting (Python/Bash)
• Introductory understanding of cloud concepts (AWS)

What we offer

• Flexible working hours and a hybrid model, with Friday afternoon off.
• Promotion possibilities in a fast-growth environment.
• Training resources and free language classes.
• Wellbeing and mental health platforms, and a modern office near Barcelona beach.
• Private medical insurance or extra money for a meal card, commuting or kindergarten card.