Summer 2025 - Cybersecurity Intern (Sophomore - Junior Only)- 90338139

Your success is a train ride away!

As we move America’s workforce toward the future, Amtrak connects businesses and communities across the country. We employ more than 20,000 diverse, energetic professionals in a variety of career fields throughout the United States. The safety of our passengers, our employees, the public and our operating environment is our priority, and the success of our railroad is due to our employees.

 

Are you ready to join our team?

Our values of ‘Do the Right Thing, Excel Together and Put Customers First’ are at the heart of what matters most to us, and our Core Capabilities, ‘Building Trust, Accountability, Effective Communication, Customer Focus, and Proactive Safety & Security’ are what every employee needs to know and do to be most impactful at Amtrak. By living the Amtrak values, focusing on our capabilities, and actively embracing and fostering diverse ideas, backgrounds, and perspectives, together we will honor our past and make Amtrak a company of the future.

 

POSITION SUMMARY:

As a member of the Amtrak Cybersecurity team, the Intern will gain broad knowledge across all elements of cybersecurity. The Intern will contribute to enterprise IT compliance programs; real-time monitoring, detection, and incident response of threats to information assets of Amtrak; cyber risk management and cyber threat intelligence;and technical security architecture assessments and engineering. The Intern will leverage team expertise, industry best practices and research, and academic background to engage in work activities.

 

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

• Promote an understanding of cybersecurity roles, processes and activities to business units and IT departments
• Assist in the implementation of enterprise-wide security standards, procedures, and guidelines
• Assist in penetration testing and red team activities
• Assist in security engineering activities to include operations and maintenance of Amtrak’s security stack
• Assist with security investigations to determine root cause, impact, and remediation steps
• Monitor cybersecurity anomalies; investigate, resolve, and escalate cybersecurity incidents
• Search for potential exploits of vulnerabilities based on the user or entity behaviors, endpoint threat detection,network behavior analytics, alerts/alarms, and managed security reports
• Assist in security and compliance audits
• Support PCI and Financial Statement Audits
• Assist in privacy assessments and information governance projects
• Guide users on the usage and administration of security tools that control and monitor information security
• Support with governance of critical IT disciplines
• Assists in the development of Standard Operating Manuals for different process
• Generate, gather, and track security metrics, develop scorecards for the metrics, and communicate the results
• Support and participate in formal reporting
• Research, collect and analyze data
• Identify challenges/barriers and make recommendations
• Communicate effectively and professionally with key stakeholders

 

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• Must be actively pursuing a degree at an accredited educational institution.
• Must be actively pursuing an undergraduate degree and have completed courses in Cyber Security, Information Security, Information Assurance, Computer Science, SecurityRisk Analysis, or similar discipline or holds a certificate related to information technology or cybersecurity.
• Must have at least 1 year of academic undergraduate studies completed or a sophomore status at minimum.
• Must have a cumulative GPA of 2.8 or higher
• Experience in Microsoft Office software suite, including Excel, Word, Outlook, and PowerPoint

 

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to manage multiple tasks with competing priorities and tight deadlines