Site Reliability Engineer Intern Jobs in Michigan

Job Summary:
Sunrise Systems, Inc. is seeking an experienced Site Reliability Engineer Lead to support a centralized cloud enablement team responsible for building, deploying, and operating standardized AWS infrastructure. The role focuses on creating and maintaining reusable Infrastructure as Code (IaC) patterns and ensuring compliance and operational rigor across a multi-account AWS environment.
Responsibilities:
• Design, build, and maintain Terraform modules and IaC patterns used by multiple delivery teams.
• Implement and operate Terraform deployments via Spacelift, including stack design, approvals, drift detection, and environment promotion.
• Develop and maintain Rundeck jobs for AWS operational automation, break‐glass actions, and platform support workflows.
• Build and support GitHub‐based CI/CD pipelines using GitOps principles (PR‐driven change control).
• Establish and enforce AWS standards for:
• Account structure and environments
• Tagging, cost allocation, and ownership
• Security, access control, and auditability
• Implement secure automation using IAM roles, OIDC, and least‐privilege access.
• Collaborate with application and platform teams to onboard workloads to standardized IaC tooling.
• Produce and maintain documentation, runbooks, and onboarding guides.
• Troubleshoot IaC, pipeline, and automation failures; participate in root cause analysis as needed.
Qualifications:
Required:
• AWS Cloud Expertise
• GitHub & CI/CD
• Operational & Collaboration Skills
• Rundeck (Operational Automation)
• Security & Compliance
• Spacelift (Terraform Orchestration)
• Terraform experience in production AWS environments.
• 5+ years of hands‐on Terraform experience in production AWS environments.
• Advanced experience with module design, reuse, and versioning
• Remote state using S3 and DynamoDB
• Multi‐account and multi‐environment deployments
• Standards enforcement via validation and lifecycle rules
• Experience supporting centralized Terraform modules consumed by many teams.
• Strong, practical experience with AWS Organizations, SCPs, and multi‐account strategies
• Cross‐account IAM role design
• Account bootstrap / landing zone concepts
• Hands‐on experience provisioning AWS services via Terraform, including IAM, VPC and networking, EC2 / Auto Scaling, EKS or ECS (working knowledge), S3, RDS, CloudWatch and logging, KMS and encryption
• Production experience using Spacelift for Terraform: stack and dependency design, environment promotion and approvals, worker configuration (private or AWS‐hosted preferred), drift detection and scheduled runs, experience integrating Spacelift with AWS IAM and GitHub workflows.
• Experience designing and operating Rundeck jobs for AWS infrastructure operations.
• Strong understanding of job security, RBAC, and approvals
• Credential management using IAM roles (no static keys)
• Error handling, retries, and notifications
• Familiarity with job‐as‐code or version‐controlled job patterns.
• Enterprise GitHub experience, including branch protection rules and CODEOWNERS, required reviews and PR‐based change control, GitHub Actions for CI/CD, OIDC‐based authentication to AWS, strong understanding of GitOps delivery models.
• Experience implementing least‐privilege IAM and permission boundaries
• Secure secrets handling (no credentials in code)
• Approval workflows and separation of duties
• Ability to embed security and compliance into IaC pipelines rather than manual processes.
• Strong troubleshooting and operational mindset.
• Experience supporting shared platforms used by many teams.
• Ability to document solutions clearly and enable team adoption.
• Strong communication skills and comfort working with cross‐functional stakeholders.
Preferred:
• Experience migrating teams into centralized IaC or platform tooling.
• FinOps experience (cost tagging, chargeback/showback)
• Policy-as-code exposure (OPA, Sentinel, or equivalent)
• Terraform tooling: tflint, checkov, tfsec, infracost
• Experience in regulated or risk‐sensitive environments strongly preferred.
Company:
Sunrise Systems was founded in 1990 with a clear vision to deliver world-class staffing service solutions in all labor categories, including IT consulting and solutions; all with the commitment to provide service that exceeds expectations and become the most trusted name in the industry. Founded in 1990, the company is headquartered in Edison, USA, with a team of 501-1000 employees. The company is currently Late Stage.