Job Description

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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Job Posting Date
13 Jan 2026; 00:01

Pay Range

$21 - $36-Hourly

Location

Indianapolis, IN - Work from home US

Benefits

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

Rolls-Royce has been at the forefront of innovation for over a century. Designing, building and servicing systems that provide critical power to customers, where safety and reliability are paramount. Our engineering excellence is the power behind some of the most critical technologies used in the air, at sea and on land. Across Civil Aerospace, Power Systems, Defence and in our unique nuclear capabilities, we provide a range of differentiated technologies and products.