Associate Backup and Recovery Engineer (Internship), Technopark, Thiruvananthapuram
This is an on-site internship in Kazhakkoottam, based at Technopark, for someone who wants to gain a real foothold in infrastructure work before graduating. The stipend is ₹14,500 per month, and the internship is structured to build toward a full-time offer for interns who perform well, not just as a resume line.
The work centers on backup systems and disaster recovery, an area of IT that rarely gets much attention until something goes wrong, at which point it's the only thing that matters. Interns here get pulled into that work early rather than sitting on the sidelines observing.
Most students coming out of a computer science program have touched web development, maybe some data structures work, occasionally a bit of networking. Backup and recovery is a narrower specialty that doesn't get much classroom time anywhere, which is exactly why this internship exists. It's meant as an on-ramp into a part of infrastructure work that most graduates never see up close until they're already a few years into a job.
Day-to-day work
- Monitor scheduled backup jobs across servers and storage systems, flagging failures before they compound
- Assist senior engineers with restore testing, verifying that backed-up data can actually be recovered, not just that a job ran
- Help maintain documentation for disaster recovery procedures and backup schedules
- Log and track backup-related tickets, escalating anything outside standard troubleshooting steps
- Support storage capacity checks and basic reporting on backup success rates
Restore testing is often where interns learn the most, since it's the point where theory about backup strategy meets the reality of whether the data actually comes back intact. A failed restore test teaches more in an afternoon than a week of reading documentation does.
Work is assigned in small, defined chunks at first: verify these ten backup jobs, run a restore test on this dataset, update this log, rather than open-ended tasks that assume experience the intern doesn't have yet. As the term progresses, the scope widens, and interns start owning small parts of the monitoring routine on their own.
What the internship requires
This internship is aimed at those in the final stretch of a technical undergraduate program, or who've just wrapped one up; engineering or computing-adjacent degrees both work. Since it's structured as an entry point rather than a lateral move, no prior professional experience is expected.
Naukri Mitra places this kind of role in the associate or entry-level tier for exactly this reason: it's designed as a first real exposure to enterprise infrastructure, not a role for someone already working in the field.
Skills that help you get started
- Basic understanding of backup tools and concepts, even from coursework or personal study
- Some familiarity with storage systems and how data is structured across them
- Interest in disaster recovery planning specifically, beyond general IT support
A step above the baseline
Exposure to specific platforms such as Veeam, Commvault, or Veritas NetBackup is a genuine plus, though not expected at this stage. Comfort with basic scripting, whether shell or PowerShell, tends to help interns move faster once they're assigned repetitive verification tasks. Coursework touching on storage networking (SAN or NAS concepts) also gives a useful head start.
What you get out of it
Beyond the monthly stipend, every intern is paired with a senior engineer for direct mentorship rather than being routed through a general training program shared across departments. A completion certificate is issued at the end of the term, and interns who show real initiative are strongly considered for a full-time offer once the internship wraps up.
Since the role requires on-site presence, the employer also provides relocation support and helps arrange accommodation for interns coming from outside Thiruvananthapuram, which matters for students traveling from other parts of Kerala or further afield for this specific opportunity.
The full-time conversion path isn't automatic, and the internship doesn't pretend otherwise. What tends to happen is that interns who consistently catch issues before they're flagged, and who ask sharp questions during restore tests instead of just following a checklist, get a conversation about staying on well before the term officially ends. Others leave with real, specific experience to point to in later interviews even if this particular team doesn't have a full-time seat open right away.
Life in Technopark
Technopark in Kazhakkoottam is one of the larger IT campuses in South India, with enough scale that interns aren't isolated in a single small office. Public transport connections to the city have improved over the past few years, and there's a reasonable spread of food options on campus for anyone not looking to commute out for lunch every day.
The internship generally runs for a fixed term, with performance reviewed roughly at the midpoint and again near the end. That structure gives interns a clear read on where they stand well before the term concludes, rather than finding out everything at once in a final evaluation.
Weekdays follow a fairly standard office schedule, and the team maintains a light rotation for on-call awareness so interns get a sense of what off-hours backup monitoring entails without being handed that responsibility solo. It's a small taste of the on-call side of infrastructure work, not the real thing, but it's honest exposure to what a full-time role in this space eventually looks like.
Applying
Interested students should submit a resume along with any academic projects or coursework that address backup systems, storage, or infrastructure in general. A cover note isn't required, but a short paragraph explaining specific interest in backup and disaster recovery work, rather than infrastructure broadly, tends to stand out to the hiring team reviewing applications.
Shortlisted applicants can expect a brief call to confirm availability and academic status, followed by a conversation focused on how they think through problems rather than what they've already memorized. Nobody expects a final-year student to walk in knowing enterprise backup software cold, and the interview is built around that assumption rather than testing against it.
