Intern, Info Sec Systems Engineer

Job Title: Intern, Information Security Systems Engineer

Job Code: 42591

Job Location: Palm Bay, FL

Job Schedule:9/80: Employees work 9 out of every 14 days - totaling 80 hours worked, and have every other Friday off

Job Description:

The Information Assurance / Cybersecurity Engineer is responsible for providing technical guidance and oversight in assessing security infrastructure, network architecture, and system design to ensure the protection of enterprise systems and applications. This role identifies security risks, threats, and vulnerabilities across networks, systems, applications, and emerging technology initiatives, while supporting the development and implementation of effective security controls, policies, and engineering standards. The position also serves as a technical advisor to clients and internal stakeholders on information assurance best practices, technologies, and implementation strategies.

Essential Functions:

• Provide guidance and oversight in assessing security infrastructure and network and systems design to ensure system/network security

• Identify security risks, threats and vulnerabilities of networks, systems, applications and new technology initiatives

• Provide oversight in the development, testing and operation of firewalls, intrusion detection systems, enterprise anti-virus systems and software deployment tools

• Develop policies and procedures for securing the system infrastructure and applications

• Develop complex technical and programmatic assessments, evaluate engineering and integration initiatives and provide technical support to assess security policies, standards and guidelines

• Perform product evaluations, recommend and implement products/services for network security

• Interact with clients and provide recommendations on information assurance engineering standards, implementation dependencies and changing information assurance related technologies

Qualifications:

• To be eligible, applicants must be pursuing a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology/Computer Information Systems with Network Focus or Communications Focus, Electrical Engineering or related field.

Preferred Skills:

• Solid understanding of TCP/IP and routing protocols

• Knowledge of LAN/WAN networking and security infrastructure (Firewalls, IDS/IPS, IPSec, VPNs)

• Knowledge of Computer/System Security topics such as Antivirus, Authentication, Authorization, Access Control, Cryptography, SSO, Business Continuity Planning and Application Security