SkillBridge Military Transition Program – Staff Security Engineer (Security Platforms & Automation) Trainee

Who are we?

Equinix is the world’s digital infrastructure company®, shortening the path to connectivity to enable the innovations that enrich our work, life and planet. 
 

A place where bold ideas are welcomed, human connection is valued, and everyone has the opportunity to shape their future.

A career at Equinix means being at the center of shaping what comes next and amplifying customer value through innovation and impact. You’ll work across teams, influence key decisions, and help shape the path forward. You’ll find belonging, purpose, and a team that welcomes you—because when you feel valued, you’re empowered to do your best work.

Are you a military service member within or nearing your 180-day window for separation from active duty?

Are you a military spouse fellow wanting to pursue a technology career?

If this is you, then Equinix has a unique opportunity to help kick-start the next chapter in your professional life.

We are accepting applications for our very own DoD SkillBridge Fellowship Program

The training will be on the cutting edge of technology, in a digital infrastructure environment, supporting an initiative designed to connect our nation’s warfighters to the best employment opportunities available.

Overview

The Digital Information Security Engineering team is seeking a transitioning military service member to participate in a SkillBridge Staff Security Engineer role focused on hands-on security engineering, automation, and platform integration.

This SkillBridge opportunity is designed as an execution-driven, immersive training role, enabling the participant to apply military experience in operations, cyber defense, systems engineering, or communications to real-world enterprise security engineering challenges.

The participant will gain direct, practical experience in Python-based automation, secure API development, cloud security platforms, and modern DevSecOps workflows, while being supported by senior engineers and mentors. Experience or interest in AI-enabled security tooling and agentic workloads is welcomed but not required.

This role emphasizes learning through doing and prepares the service member for a full-time civilian security engineering career upon successful program completion.

Key Learning Objectives & Responsibilities

Security Platform & API Engineering

• Learn to design, build, and maintain secure APIs that expose security platform capabilities.
• Gain hands-on experience with authentication, authorization, rate limiting, observability, and abuse protection mechanisms.
• Work alongside experienced engineers using API gateways, service meshes, and service orchestration platforms.
• Contribute to API documentation, runbooks, and operational support materials.

Automation & Secure Development (Core Focus)

• Develop Python-based automation to streamline security workflows and operational tasks.
• Build integrations and scripts connecting security tools, SaaS platforms, and data sources.
• Learn how security is embedded into CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions).
• Apply secure development lifecycle practices, including:
  • Threat modeling
  • Secure code review
  • Static and dynamic analysis

Data, AI, and Emerging Capabilities (Exposure)

• Observe and assist in evaluating AI-powered security tools and automation frameworks.
• Optional / Nice-to-have: Participate in the design or testing of agentic workflows, such as:
  • AI-assisted alert triage or correlation
  • Policy-driven automated response actions
• Learn governance, observability, and safe operational usage of AI in security environments.

Platform Reliability & Operations

• Understand how production security services meet availability, reliability, and performance objectives.
• Participate in troubleshooting and incident response for security APIs and services.
• Learn proactive risk identification and resilience planning.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Collaborate with product managers and software engineers to understand civilian enterprise engineering workflows.
• Translate requirements into secure technical designs under mentorship.
• Participate in peer reviews and technical discussions to build confidence in civilian engineering environments.

Leadership & Professional Development

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