Cybersecurity Intern
Seeking students interested in gaining practical experience in cybersecurity and healthcare IT.
Position: Cybersecurity Intern
Duration: May 5, 2025 – December 12, 2025
Part time, working 15 – 29 hours/week
Location: Remote, based in Michigan (Eastern Time Zone)
Wage: $14/hour
The company is currently not authorized to support remote work employees in the following locations: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, California, Delaware, Idaho, Massachusetts, Montana, Nebraska, Utah, Wyoming.
The student internship program accepts international students with up-to-date work authorization for off-campus employment.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Perform risk assessments and execute tests of data processing system to ensure functioning of data processing activities and security measures.
- Encrypt data transmissions and establish firewalls to conceal confidential information as it is being transmitted and to keep out tainted digital transfers.
- Modify computer systems to incorporate new software, correct errors, or change individual access status.
- Evaluate information to determine compliance with standards by using relevant information to determine whether events or processes comply with laws, regulations, or standards.
- Review, audit and report on users and actions in computer logs.
- Participate in application lifecycle management activities related to security, such as third party vulnerability reporting and tracking.
- Participate in the maintenance and improvement of current processes by recommending improvements and staying current on industry trends and technology.
Monitor threat reports and mitigate vulnerability disclosures
Tools we use: AWS, Tenable, Crowdstrike, DUO, Bitbucket, Zoom meetings, JIRA ticketing service, JIRA Agile Kanban project management, Confluence, Microsoft Outlook email and calendar, Microsoft Teams chat and meetings, Word, PowerPoint, and Excel.
Qualifications
- Seeking entry level cyber security support technician or experience in a related field interested in learning Health IT information security specialty.
- Experience with network analysis and troubleshooting
- Microsoft Office Suite proficiency.
- Ability to prioritize and monitor multiple tasks
- Ability to present and articulate information learned to others effectively
- Experience with endpoint and threat management application(s) (e.g., Microsoft Defender, Crowdstrike, Tenable.)
- Familiarity with version control (i.e., GitHub, Bitbucket, or Gitlab) and software development processes
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to build professional relationships in a remote work environment
- Ability to take initiative on tasks with little direction
- Excited to learn new tools, new concepts, and vocabulary.
Benefits
- Gain valuable skills to enhance your resume, including real-world project coordination experience.
- Learn about cutting-edge healthcare technology initiatives and receive mentorship from experienced industry professionals
- Enjoy flexible part-time hours, remote work opportunities with provided equipment, and the potential to earn internship course credit.
Equal Opportunity Notice
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer who recognizes that our diversity is our greatest strength. We draw on the differences in who we are, what we’ve experienced, and how we think to best serve our stakeholders and our communities.
Because our family of companies serve everyone, we believe in including everyone. This means we strive to hire qualified employees that are diverse in thinking and in race, gender, gender identity and/or gender expression, age, religion, or belief, sexual orientation, physical, mental, or sensory disability, citizenship, family or partnership status, socioeconomic upbringing and more.
We believe diversity and inclusion among our teammates is critical to success as an organization, and we seek to recruit, develop, and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool.