Platform Engineering Intern

Platform Engineering Intern

Duration: 12 weeks

Location: Remote

Why join Rolls-Royce?

At Rolls-Royce we are proud to be a business that has truly helped to shape the modern world and are committed to always being a force for progress; powering, protecting and connecting people everywhere.

By joining Rolls-Royce in an Emerging Talent program, you'll have the opportunity to work on world-class solutions, supported by a culture that believes individuality is our greatest strength, and all perspectives, experiences and backgrounds help us innovate and enable our high-performance culture.

Position Summary:

As a Platform Engineering Intern you’ll be responsible for cloud configuration, aiding software engineers with deployment, CI/CD pipeline creation/modification, automation and monitoring of our deployment platforms. You’ll join the Defense Digital and IT Team and work day-to-day with an internal organization called the Software Factory.  This is a small, agile, and fast-moving team which embraces the concept of “Learn Fast, Fail Fast” as we help to digitally transform the larger business.

What You’ll be doing:

• Configuring our Azure cloud subscriptions for secure operation and deployments of applications and tools

• Creating and maintaining deployment and test automation, CI/CD pipelines, vulnerability scanning, and other capabilities that let our software engineers get their changes to production quickly and efficiently

• Keeping up with industry best practices, new libraries, and tools in the Cloud & DevOps ecosystem and bringing that learning to bear on Rolls-Royce projects

• Integrating with the internal Software Factory organization by helping to coach, guide, mentor, and train part-time programmers and citizen developers in basic and intermediate software and platform development

• Promoting Rolls-Royce as an innovative company internally and externally

Who we’re looking for:

• Advocate of high-performance culture and positive change

• Comfortable with ambiguity - able to define and implement plans that achieve business value without detailed instructions

• Good written and oral communication to a variety of audiences

• Demonstrated capability in building CI/CD Pipelines to deploy and run various test types

• Demonstrated experience working with commercial cloud providers and services, especially Azure

• Tech Stack familiarity is a plus - Azure, GitHub Enterprise, Terraform, Snyk, TypeScript, OPA, GraphQL although various other languages, tools, and concepts are used as well

Preferred Qualifications (but not required):

• Experience working with a software team and solving difficult technical problems.

• Experience in and awareness of modern Cloud and DevOps topics (Azure Services, IaC, CI/CD, SCA, automated testing, monitoring & observability, containerization, etc.)

• Awareness of modern software practices (git version control, GitHub/GitLab/other source code managers, VSCode or other IDEs, cloud native / service-based architectures, agile practices, etc.)

Our behaviors drive us - we put safety first, do the right thing, keep it simple and make a difference. We’ll expect that of you, too.

Relevant majors:

Applicants must be attending an accredited college or university, working toward a bachelor’s degree in a relevant major.
Relevant majors include:

• Computer Science (Informatics or other fields)

• Engineering, Technology, or Data Science

Minimum GPA: 3.0
 

Work authorization eligibility: To be considered for this role, you must be a U.S. citizen

Our vision is to ensure that the excellence and ingenuity that shaped our history continues into our future. Our multi-year transformation programme aims to turn Rolls-Royce into a high-performing, competitive, resilient and growing company. Join us, and it can be your future vision too.

Rolls-Royce is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any protected characteristics.

Closing Date: 1/16/2026

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Benefits

Interns are eligible for Paid Time Off; and a housing stipend.