Job Description

Job Summary

As a Summer Intern at Black & Veatch, you will play a meaningful role in addressing some of the world’s most critical infrastructure challenges. This internship offers the opportunity to contribute to diverse, impactful projects that support our clients’ goals while fostering your professional growth and advancing the success of Black & Veatch.

In this position, potential office locations could include: 

• Kansas City
• Cary, NC

Key Responsibilities

Join our Advanced Threat Unit (ATU), a dynamic team focused on proactive threat detection, automation, and visibility enhancement. As a cybersecurity intern, you’ll contribute to real-world security operations while gaining hands-on experience across multiple domains of threat intelligence and response.

Key Responsibilities

• Scripting & Automation: Assist in developing scripts and automation workflows to streamline detection and response processes.
• Alert Triage: Participate in the initial analysis and prioritization of security alerts to identify potential threats.
• Detection Engineering: Help design and test new detection rules and logic to improve threat identification.
• Threat Hunting: Support proactive investigations to uncover hidden threats using behavioral analytics and threat intelligence.
• Visibility Projects: Contribute to small-scale initiatives aimed at improving telemetry, logging, and overall visibility across systems.

Learning Opportunities:

• Exposure to enterprise-scale SIEM, SOAR, and EDR platforms
• Assist with threat intelligence gathering from security vendors and dark web for security operations and awareness
• Understanding of threat actor tactics, techniques, and procedures.
• Opportunity to contribute to meaningful projects that enhance organizational security posture

Preferred Qualifications

· Currently pursuing a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Data Science, Computer Science, Management Information Systems, Statistics, Mathematics, Data Analytics or a related major

· Effective communication and interpersonal skills (both written and verbal).

· Experience in accessing and analyzing data

· Ability to identify, analyze, and interpret patterns in data and produce relevant visualization.

· Knowledge and practical use of Python or other scripting languages for data analysis.

· Strong analytical, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills and the desire to learn.

Minimum Qualifications

Current enrollment in Information Technology or related degree program. All applicants must be able to complete pre-employment onboarding requirements (if selected) which may include any/all of the following: criminal/civil background check, drug screen, and motor vehicle records search, in compliance with any applicable laws and regulations.

Work Environment/Physical Demands

This internship position is expected to be in the office on a full-time basis.

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