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Cyber Range Development Intern

Carnegie Mellon University•Pittsburgh, PA
•Onsite

About The Position

The Cyber Range Development Intern will work within the Cyber Mission Readiness Directorate of CERT, collaborating with software engineers, learning engineers, and cybersecurity experts to develop hands-on training, exercises, and assessments that improve cyber mission readiness. The intern will assist the Operational Readiness and Evaluation team in building virtual lab environments for cybersecurity training and exercises. Work includes building and versioning virtual machine templates and network topologies, migrating existing lab content to an open-source virtualization platform, and developing and testing realistic exercise scenarios with cybersecurity subject matter experts. The internship begins in Fall 2026, with the option to continue through the Spring 2027 semester. It is a part-time, fully onsite position based in the Pittsburgh office. The intern will contribute to virtual machine and configuration automation, virtualization and software-defined networking, infrastructure as code for lab environments, and cyber exercise scenario development and testing.

Requirements

  • Be enrolled in a degree-granting program.
  • Be willing to travel to various locations to support the SEI’s mission, including locations within the SEI and CMU community.
  • Be subject to a background check and eligible to work in the United States without visa sponsorship.
  • Ability to think critically and solve problems.
  • Familiarity with Linux and Windows system administration.
  • Basic knowledge of networking concepts, such as IP addressing, routing, VLANs, and DNS.
  • Familiarity with a scripting language, such as Bash, PowerShell, or Python.
  • Ability to collaborate with professional engineers, instructional designers, and subject matter experts.
  • Willingness to learn new technologies with cross-functional teams.
  • Organization, attention to detail, and the ability to clearly document and communicate findings.

Nice To Haves

  • Experience with a hypervisor, such as Proxmox VE, VMware vSphere, KVM, or Hyper-V.
  • Experience with Packer or Terraform.
  • Experience configuring virtual machines with Ansible or cloud-init.
  • Experience with offensive or defensive security tools, such as Kali Linux or Security Onion.
  • Cybersecurity coursework or hands-on experience, such as capture-the-flag competitions or home labs; these experiences may come from education-driven experiences or extracurricular activities.

Responsibilities

  • Build and maintain virtual machine templates and lab topologies.
  • Migrate and validate existing lab content on new virtualization infrastructure.
  • Develop and test exercise scenarios with cybersecurity subject matter experts.
  • Document lab environments and demonstrate them to the team.
  • Assist with virtual machine image, template, and configuration automation.
  • Contribute to virtualization, software-defined networking, and infrastructure-as-code work for lab environments.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, prescription, dental, and vision insurance.
  • Retirement savings program with employer contributions.
  • Tuition benefits.
  • Paid time off and observed holidays.
  • Life, accidental death, and disability insurance.
  • Free Pittsburgh Regional Transit bus pass.
  • Family Concierge Team to help navigate childcare needs.
  • Fitness center access.

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