College Intern - Cyber Security - Strategic Defense Department

Salt River Project • Tempe, AZ

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About The Position

SRP's Cyber Security Strategic Defense department is seeking an intern to support a wide range of functions within the Threat Management team. Threat Management serves as SRP's cyber security operations center (SOC), and is responsible for detection, response, and remediation of cyber security events across the enterprise. The student intern will work daily scheduled hours based on the department's needs, with a minimum requirement of 15 hours and up to 29.5 hours per week maximum. Must be able to work 2 days on-site per week, with remaining time working remotely.

Requirements

• Strong understanding of Computer Operating systems, software, and hardware.
• Solid understanding and knowledge of commonly used concepts, practices and procedures within the Information Technology and Cyber Security fields.
• Ability to communicate well with others and to perform work in a team environment.
• Demonstrate a growth mindset and exhibit a collaborative work style.
• Detail oriented, critical thinking, problem solving in a fast-paced technical setting.
• Skilled in Microsoft Office products.
• College level coursework (100+) from an accredited institution will be evaluated on an individual basis according to the skill/level to determine if applicable to the position by management.

Responsibilities

• Develop skills and learn procedures to effectively identify, detect, contain, eradicate, recover, and document cyber incidents in an enterprise environment to effectively defend against cyber threats.
• Maintain awareness of current threat landscape utilizing threat intelligence from government and industry partners, as well as information security community resources.
• Learn about malware, cyber threat hunting, security analytic tool best practices, and vulnerability management.
• Support internal tool sets, including antivirus, Endpoint Detection & Response (EDR), IPS/IDS, sandboxing/emulation, forensic software, Network Detection & Response (NDR), etc.
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders and other cyber security teams on security control design, deployment, and configuration.
• Cultivate an understanding of SRP's network environment, critical applications, and infrastructure.
• Identify opportunities to develop new detections and monitoring capabilities based on log data and telemetry.
• Create and maintain documentation related to procedural workflows within the Security Operations domain, including playbooks, tool support guides, and knowledge base articles.

Benefits

• 401(k) plan with employer matching
• Access to a recreation and fitness facility
• Tuition assistance for both undergraduate and graduate programs: College interns are eligible to receive $1000 per calendar year

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Part-time
• Career Level: Intern
• Industry: Utilities
• Education Level: No Education Listed