RIT Co-op: Platform Engineer

Rochester Regional Health

3d • Hybrid

About The Position

As an RIT Platform Engineer Co-op student, you will help build and operate automation that provisions accounts, manages environments, and keeps platforms healthy. The team's platforms provide AI tools—including Microsoft Copilot, GitHub Copilot, and Copilot Studio—to thousands of Rochester Regional Health colleagues. This is a hybrid, full-time, daytime co-op in the Emerging Technology department, scheduled Monday through Friday. It is a double-block co-op starting in January 2027, and applicants must be enrolled as students at the Rochester Institute of Technology.

Requirements

• Must be enrolled as a student at the Rochester Institute of Technology.
• Familiarity with some of the following: Python, Git and GitHub, APIs and JSON, automation and scripting, cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP), Docker, GitHub Actions, and SQL.
• Enjoys solving difficult problems and figuring things out independently.
• Has built things outside the classroom and can explain how they work.
• Uses AI development tools to learn and build faster.
• Communicates technical ideas clearly in conversation and writing, and asks questions.
• Is curious, self-motivated, and excited to learn new technologies.

Nice To Haves

• Interest in CI/CD, infrastructure, or platform engineering.

Responsibilities

• Build and improve automation and pipelines for provisioning, licensing, and monitoring using Python, scripting, and GitHub Actions.
• Work in Azure cloud environments and help manage access and environments.
• Help monitor platform usage and health, and build tools that flag problems early.
• Document how systems work so others can operate and extend them.
• Work with the Emerging Technology, DevOps, and platform engineering teams, as well as IT Security.
• Help colleagues solve platform issues and explain technical topics clearly.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Intern
• Education Level: No Education Listed