Legal Intern

About Megaport

Megaport rewired how IT connects. As a pioneer of Network as a Service (NaaS), we help companies tap into the cloud—fast. We’re an ASX-listed scale-up, trusted by Amazon, Microsoft, Google, IBM, Oracle, NYSE, and other tech giants. With 250+ talented teammates spread across North America, Europe, and APAC (HQ in Brisbane), we stay lean, move quickly, and keep things fun.

Our Vibe

●      Customer-first always

●      Integrity > everything

●      Small teams, huge outcomes

●      We celebrate curiosity, collaboration, and a can-do attitude

●  Success gets loud cheers—see our “Legend” & “Kudos” awards

If you thrive in a fast, globally distributed environment (and appreciate a good meme), you’ll feel right at home.

Why This Role Rocks

We’re looking for a motivated and commercially curious Legal Intern to join our Legal team. This is an opportunity to gain hands-on experience in an in-house legal environment within a global technology company. This role is ideal for a law student or recent graduate who wants exposure to technology, commercial contracting, and international business operations. Reporting to the Legal Director, this is a practical, hands-on role — you’ll see how legal advice is applied in real-time commercial decision-making.

• Project Support -  The focus of this role will be to help support a critical compliance project related, with potential to support other projects where capacity permits.  You will gain hands-on experience in legal project management through high-level portfolio analysis, extraction of key terms and obligations across diverse contract sets.
• Record management - supporting contract management and document organisation.
• Legal ops support - contributing to continuous improvement of legal processes and tools.
• Apply legal project management principles to large-scale contract reviews by becoming proficient in the art of term extraction and portfolio mapping to provide actionable insights for the legal team

• This role will suit someone completing (or having recently completed) a law degree and keen to work as part of a high performing global in-house legal team.

• Strong academic results and solid legal research skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• High attention to detail and strong organisational skills.
• Commercial mindset and genuine interest in technology and innovation.
• Ability to manage multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment.
• A proactive attitude — you’re comfortable asking questions and taking initiative.
• Stellar communicator and natural relationship builder.
• High integrity, high accountability, high energy.

• Best team ever. Legit.
• Flexible work (remote-friendly & balanced schedules)
• Birthday leave - celebrate yourself 🎉
• Cool, creative office spaces (when you want ‘em)
• Health & wellness program
• Global team of experts who love what they do
• Recognition programs that actually mean something

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If you have any questions, please reach out to Megaport's Talent Acquisition Team at Careers@megaport.com

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