Security Engineering Intern

We support about 60 local businesses, most within 30 minutes of the office. No call center and no offshore help desk. When clients call, one of us picks up.

Overview:

Mohawk Valley Networks is looking for a cyber security intern to support our small security team with monitoring, testing and documentation. Remote within the US. The team meets in Cary once a quarter, travel covered. Normal working hours, Monday to Friday. Strong written English is important, since much of our work is async.

Responsibilities:

• Update security policies and runbooks in Confluence.
• Collect evidence for ISO 27001 and SOC 2 audit controls.
• Run authenticated vulnerability scans with Nessus or OpenVAS on approved assets.
• Write clear findings with severity, impact and steps to fix.
• 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.

Who can apply:

• Available 40 hours a week for the full internship.
• Currently enrolled in a bachelor's or master's program, graduating 2027 or 2028.
• Based in the US for the duration of the internship.
• Comfortable on the Linux command line.
• Willing to complete a basic background check before access is granted.
• Pursuing a degree in Computer Science, IT, Cyber Security or a related field, graduating in 2027 or 2028.
• Strong sense of ethics. You will see sensitive data and must stay strictly within scope.

Duration: 3 months

Start date: Jan 2027

Stipend: $36.50 - $50.50 per hour

What we offer:

• Home office setup stipend.
• Company laptop.
• Flexible hours.
• Paid company holidays.
• Mentorship from a dedicated buddy and manager.

We review applications on a rolling basis.

Duration: 3 months. Start: Jan 2027.

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