Security Operations Engineering Intern

Overview

Come build community, explore your passions, and do your best work at Microsoft with thousands of university interns from around the world. This opportunity allows you to bring your aspirations, talent, and potential, along with excitement for the journey ahead.

As a Security Operations Engineering intern, you will execute security controls, defenses, and countermeasures to intercept and prevent internal or external attacks or attempts to infiltrate company email, data, e-commerce, and web-based systems.

At Microsoft, interns work on real-world projects in collaboration with teams across the world, while having fun along the way. You'll be empowered to build community, explore your passions, and achieve your goals. This is your chance to bring your solutions and ideas to life while working on cutting-edge technology.

Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees, we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day, we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

Responsibilities

• Research attempted or successful efforts to compromise systems' security and determine next steps, including potential escalations.
• Develop and implement automation of security processes and procedures where possible, and translate security policy into effective controls.
• Respond to security incidents, conduct threat intelligence and analysis, and use data analytics to drive security decisions.
• Conduct and support red/purple team operations or improve security posture.
• Maintain hardware, software, network firewalls, and encryption protocols, and administer security policies to control access to systems.
• Understand bare-metal infrastructure and services (physical servers hosting virtual machines).
• Apply knowledge of operating systems, cloud infrastructure, virtualized environments, scripting, and networking concepts to support troubleshooting, diagnostics, and resolution of technical issues.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Currently pursuing a Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, or a related field.
• Must have at least one additional quarter/semester of school remaining following the completion of the internship.

Additional/Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's or Master's in Information Systems, Informatics, or Information Technology.
• CISSP, CISA, CISM, SANS, GCIA, GCIH, OSCP, and/or Security+ certification.