Security Consulting Engineer Intern
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Job Description
About Cisco:
Cisco is a technology company with a 40-year history, encompassing hardware, software, and security solutions. They describe themselves as a company that adapts, predicts, learns, and protects, inventing intuitive networks. Cisco emphasizes a culture of innovation, creativity, and learning from failure, promoting diversity and inclusion. They highlight a focus on giving back to the community and a work environment that values individual expression and collaboration.
Job Description: Security Consulting Engineer Intern
This posting advertises potential future job opportunities; the specific role may not be currently open. Successful applicants will be contacted by a Cisco representative if a relevant position becomes available.
Who You’ll Work With:
The intern will join Cisco’s Security Customer Experience (CX) organization. This team supports customers throughout the lifecycle of security solutions, from needs assessment and custom solution deployment to optimization, application development, maintenance, and incident investigation.
What You’ll Do:
The internship will provide hands-on experience in security consulting. Responsibilities include:
• On-site design and configuration sessions: Participating in sessions with a mentor.
• Requirements gathering: Collecting customer requirements to meet business objectives.
• Business goal definition: Collaborating to define business goals and integration requirements.
• Large-scale design: Supporting large-scale design efforts for customer network integrations.
• Lab configuration: Configuring lab devices using templates for customer production implementations.
• Policy creation: Assisting in designing policies for Identity Services, Firewalls, Visibility Solutions, and cloud-based solutions.
• Configuration analysis: Analyzing customer configurations and providing improvement feedback.
• Data analysis: Evaluating customer logs and NetFlow data to advise on improvements.
• Security policy understanding: Learning and understanding Security Policies, Standards, Procedures, and Guidelines.
• Automation development: Leveraging programming languages (Java/Python/C++) and open-source automation platforms (Ansible/Chef/Terraform) to create tailored automation capabilities using Cisco APIs.
Who You Are:
Ideal candidates possess:
• A passion for information security and a willingness to learn.
• Ability to work effectively in small, dynamic teams and manage multiple responsibilities.
• Willingness to collaborate across teams within the US.
• Comfort with ambiguity and uncertainty in technical projects.
• Self-motivation and ability to work effectively on remote teams.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Minimum Qualifications:
• Upcoming graduate of a technical degree or certification program (Technical Boot Camp, Apprenticeship, Community College, or 4-Year University).
• Knowledge of IT systems, networking concepts, TCP/IP protocols, network devices and applications, OSI 7-layer model, or code development.
• Legal authorization to work in the country of application without visa sponsorship.
