Spring 2025 Co-op: IT Infrastructure - Prime Medicine
Cambridge, MA
About the Job
Company Overview:
Prime Medicine is a leading biotechnology company dedicated to creating and delivering the next generation of gene editing therapies to patients. The Company is leveraging its proprietary Prime Editing platform, a versatile, precise and efficient gene editing technology, to develop a new class of differentiated, one-time, potentially curative genetic therapies. Designed to make only the right edit at the right position within a gene while minimizing unwanted DNA modifications, Prime Editors have the potential to repair almost all types of genetic mutations and work in many different tissues, organs and cell types.
Prime Medicine is currently progressing a diversified portfolio of eighteen programs initially focused on genetic diseases with a fast, direct path to treating patients or with a high unmet need because they cannot be treated using other gene-editing approaches. Over time, the Company intends to maximize Prime Editing's therapeutic potential and advance potentially curative therapeutic options to patients for a broad spectrum of diseases. For more information, please visit www.primemedicine.com.
Co-op Assignment Overview
Prime Medicine is seeking a co-op for the Spring 2025 cycle with experience in Information Technology and an interest in life sciences to join the IT team. The infrastructure and Cybersecurity team is responsible for IT infrastructure, network, cloud, and information security, and Prime Medicine. By partnering with internal and external partners we deliver and support enterprise class infrastructure needs that enable our scientists to accelerate the development of our gene therapies. We are looking for highly motivated aspiring IT professionals who are looking to gain valuable experience in IT infrastructure, cybersecurity and cloud computing. The internship focuses on enhancing the understanding of IT infrastructure, project support, and the back- end operations of IT.
Primary Responsibilities:
- The Infrastructure co-op will assist with management and maintenance of organization's IT systems, onsite and cloud infrastructure, networks and storage
- S/he will be the first point of escalation for network (LAN, WAN, Wi-Fi), and other infrastructure related issues
- Assist the Network and infrastructure team with the support and documentation of existing and new environments
- Create custom canned reports extract data in Excel, create Pivot tables and use Excel formulas to normalize data for input
- Shadow Infrastructure teams and develop documentation, network designs and coordinate infrastructure vendor meetings and reviews.
- Convert small tasks into finite deliverable mini-projects accountable for results
- Capture meeting notes and cross validate with others to ensure requirements / problem symptoms are accurately captured
- Extract and review Incidents and Service Requests from past to analyze and generate meaningful insights on the types of problems reported and create metrics for review
- Create PowerPoint presentations based on data provided to show trends and highlight key observations
- Analyze spreadsheets to derive meaningful results
- Monitor cloud systems usage, outages, system performance and alerts generated identifying critical events from the warning noise based on good practice judgement calls
Qualifications:
- Candidate studying IT, information systems, or cybersecurity related fields.
- Independently motivated, detail-oriented, and excellent problem-solving abilities
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to translate between tech and business terminologies
- Excellent computer skills and ability to learn new tech
- Basic understanding of cloud and onsite computing systems
- Basic understanding of digital technology project phases (requirements gathering, testing, etc.)
- Familiarity and interest in cloud computing, network infrastructure, storage and backup, cybersecurity
What We Offer:
- A cutting-edge team open to mentorship and networking.
- Full reimbursement for monthly commuting costs including MBTA, Commuter Rail, or Bluebikes, etc.
- Participation in regular seminars with industry experts.
- Full participation in employee activities including learning and development offerings, social activities, etc.
NOTE: We are currently not considering co-op candidates outside of the local Boston/Cambridge area.
Prime Medicine is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, veteran status, or any other classification protected by law.
