📍Host360 | Platform Engineering Team
For engineers who love understanding how modern infrastructure actually works - not just using it.
Job Title: Platform Engineer Intern – Private Cloud & Baremetal
Company: Host360
Location: Remote
Type: Paid Internship
Duration: 6 Months
Opportunity for Full-Time: Yes (Based on Performance)
Positions: 2
Stipend - Upto 15K INR (Experienced Members will be given more preference)
Role Description
Host360 is seeking an exceptional Platform Engineer Intern to join our Platform Engineering team. This is a unique opportunity to shape the future of cloud infrastructure by exploring emerging technologies, validating innovative ideas through hands-on experimentation, and transforming technical concepts into market-ready products using and AI Tools and self learning.
You will operate at the intersection of engineering excellence, platform architecture, and product innovation. This role is ideal for technologists who thrive on discovery, experimentation, and translating cutting-edge technical possibilities into real-world solutions that drive business value.
##WHAT YOU'LL DO
1. Technology Discovery & Innovation
- Research and evaluate emerging technologies across cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes ecosystem, storage, networking, virtualization, DevOps, and SRE tooling
- Track industry trends, open-source innovations, and hyperscaler advancements to identify opportunities for competitive differentiation
- Assess technologies for scalability, security, cost-efficiency, and operational impact before recommending adoption
- Stay ahead of the curve on cloud-native architectures, automation frameworks, and infrastructure-as-code best practices
2. Proof of Concept (POC) Development & Prototyping
- Design and implement rapid POCs to validate new ideas and technical hypotheses
- Build reference architectures, experimental labs, and prototype environments
- Benchmark performance, reliability, cost, and operational complexity
- Identify technical risks, limitations, and operational considerations early in the innovation cycle
- Document findings with detailed analysis, trade-offs, and actionable recommendations
3. Product Ideation & Requirements Definition
- Convert validated technical concepts into structured product ideas
- Define target users, customer use cases, and clear value propositions
- Create comprehensive Product Requirement Documents (PRDs) including problem statements, objectives, functional/non-functional requirements, architecture overviews, security considerations, and dependency mapping
- Translate technical innovation into business outcomes and customer benefits
- Develop go-to-market readiness documentation for new platform capabilities
4. Cloud Infrastructure Management & Operations
- Monitor cloud infrastructure for availability, performance, and operational health across multi-cloud environments
- Perform proactive capacity planning to support scalability and business growth objectives
- Provision, configure, and manage cloud compute resources with a focus on automation and repeatability
- Administer cloud storage systems ensuring performance, redundancy, and cost efficiency
- Manage virtual networking components including VPCs/VNets, subnets, routing tables, load balancers, and gateways
- Implement and maintain cloud-native monitoring, alerting, and observability tools
- Optimize resource utilization to control cloud spend and eliminate waste through FinOps best practices
- Support backup, disaster recovery, and business continuity solutions for cloud workloads
- Conduct routine infrastructure health checks and preventive maintenance
- Troubleshoot infrastructure-related alerts, service disruptions, and performance degradation
- Maintain comprehensive documentation of cloud architecture, configurations, and resource inventory
- Provide incident support and root cause analysis for cloud infrastructure issues
- Collaborate with security teams to identify and remediate cloud infrastructure vulnerabilities
5. Cross-Functional Collaboration & Enablement
- Partner with Platform Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, Security, Compliance, Customer Success, and Pre-Sales teams
- Support internal knowledge sharing through technical workshops, lunch-and-learns, and documentation
- Provide technical input during go-to-market planning and customer-facing engagements
- Act as a technical advisor and subject matter expert for emerging cloud technologies
6. Documentation & Thought Leadership
- Create technical documentation, architecture decision records (ADRs), design notes, and internal proposals
- Maintain up-to-date architecture diagrams, system designs, and technology evaluation frameworks
- Present findings, recommendations, and technology roadmaps to leadership and stakeholders
- Contribute to technical blogs, whitepapers, or open-source projects (encouraged)
##WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR
1. Private Cloud & Baremetal Management Skills
- Basic understanding of private cloud concepts and platforms such as VMware, HyperV & Oracle Virtual Box or similar environments
- Experience or interest in physical server concepts including provisioning, hardware components, and lifecycle management
- Understanding of how virtualization works and how it integrates with private cloud environments
- Knowledge of basic networking (IP addressing, VLANs) and how it applies to private cloud setups
- Exposure to monitoring infrastructure health, handling alerts, and performing basic operational tasks
- Interest or experience in using automation tools or scripting (e.g., Terraform, Ansible, Bash, Python) for infrastructure management
- Comfort working with Linux systems for configuration, troubleshooting, and day-to-day operations
2. Technical Excellence (Good to have)
- Cloud Platform Expertise: Hands-on experience with AWS, Azure, GCP, or private cloud platforms (OpenStack, VMware, Nutanix)
- Infrastructure Fundamentals: Deep understanding of virtualization, bare-metal infrastructure, Kubernetes, container orchestration, networking (VPCs, routing, load balancing), and storage systems (block, object, distributed)
- Automation & IaC: Proficiency with infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation)
- Experimental Mindset: Proven track record of building POCs, labs, test environments, and experimental architectures
- Cloud-Native Ecosystem: Experience with CNCF projects (Kubernetes, Prometheus, Helm, Istio, Argo, etc.)
3. AI/ML Skills (Good to have)
- Foundational understanding of AI/ML concepts including NLP, LLMs, prompt engineering, RAG, intent detection, Agentic AI, and feature engineering.
- Familiarity with ML lifecycle practices such as Basic ML, data pipelines, Intent detection, CI/CD for ML, model monitoring, drift detection, and performance metrics.
4. Product & Architecture Thinking
- Ability to translate complex technical concepts into structured product requirements and customer value propositions
- Experience writing or contributing to PRDs, design documents, RFCs, or technical specifications
- Strong system design and architectural thinking with focus on scalability, reliability, and security
- Understanding of security principles, compliance frameworks, and operational best practices
- Ability to evaluate trade-offs between innovation, risk, cost, and time-to-market
5. Professional Skills
- Curiosity & Initiative: Self-driven learner with genuine passion for emerging technologies and continuous improvement
- Communication: Exceptional written and verbal communication skills; ability to explain complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
- Independence: Comfortable working autonomously with minimal supervision; proactive problem-solver
- Influence & Collaboration: Ability to influence without direct authority and build consensus across teams
- Pragmatism: Balance innovation with practical delivery; understand when 'good enough' beats 'perfect'
This role is designed as a Product Engineering track.
#Successful candidates will grow into:
- Platform Product Managers
- Product Engineers
- Principal Product roles over time
If you’re looking for a role where thinking matters more than titles, we want to talk.
#How We Evaluate You
- How you think, not where you worked
- How you write, not what tools you list
- How you reason through complexity
📩 Apply only if you enjoy deep products and hard problems.
