Security Engineering Intern

About us:

Large rollouts are routine here, such as imaging 12,000 laptops for a state agency over one summer. Brickset is a managed services provider with 800 employees, supporting more than 1,500 client organizations across the US. Our dress code is a company polo and clean jeans.

The internship:

This is a blue team internship first. Most days involve reviewing alerts, checking configurations and writing up findings. You can work from home anywhere in the US. We have no office requirement. Monday to Friday, regular working hours, flexible start and finish. We use Slack, Notion and Google Meet. Cameras on for team calls.

What you'll do:

• Review alerts in our SIEM (Wazuh or Splunk) and escalate anything suspicious.
• Research new CVEs that affect our stack and summarise them for the team.
• Update security policies and runbooks in Confluence.
• Track open vulnerabilities in Jira and follow up with owners on fixes.
• Triage phishing emails reported by staff and update block lists.
• Collect evidence for ISO 27001 and SOC 2 audit controls.
• Monitor dependency alerts from Dependabot and Snyk.

Who can apply:

• Based in the US for the duration of the internship.
• Authorized to work in the US. CPT and OPT candidates are welcome to apply.
• Available 40 hours a week for the full internship.
• Currently enrolled in a bachelor's or master's program, graduating 2026, 2027 or 2028.
• Strong sense of ethics. You will see sensitive data and must stay strictly within scope.
• Pursuing a degree in Computer Science, IT, Cyber Security or a related field, graduating in 2026, 2027 or 2028.
• Hands-on practice through TryHackMe, Hack The Box or college labs.
• Comfortable on the Linux command line.

What you'll learn:

• Hands-on time with SIEM, scanning and cloud security tools.
• Mentoring from a security engineer with weekly check-ins.

Duration: 3 months

Start date: Immediately

Stipend: $45.50 to $50.00 an hour

Perks:

• Learning and development stipend.
• Paid company holidays.
• Paid sick time.
• Intern events and speaker sessions (virtual)
• Home office setup stipend.
• Final presentation to leadership.

Duration: 3 months. Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Brickset.